Conversations | January 26, 2020 Former Newsweek journalist Tareq Haddad speaks to Eva Bartlett, an award-winning independent journalist and activist. They discuss Eva’s early history, including her early days in Gaza and the West Bank, and how she transitioned into journalism in addition to addressing the large backlash and smears she faced. Please follow Eva’s […]
By Kevin Ryan | OffGuardian | January 28, 2020 The dubious legal proceedings at the Guantanomo Bay (Gitmo) prison camp continue to promote the idea of justice for victims of 9/11. Unfortunately, these proceedings do not represent an administration of law but an unstated claim that the Global War on Terror is above the law. […]
Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera for MintPress News By Whitney Webb | MintPress News | January 28, 2020 As World War II drew to a close in Europe, British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that “neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely […]
RT | January 27, 2020 The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) needs to salvage its reputation after whistleblowers offered credible evidence of deceitful reporting on the Douma incident, a former head of UK commandos has said. The international chemical weapons watchdog is under increasing pressure to come clean about how it prepared […]
By Ron Unz • Unz Review • January 27, 2020 From the Peace of Westphalia to the Law of the Jungle The January 2nd American assassination of Gen. Qassem Suleimani of Iran was an event of enormous moment. Gen. Suleimani had been the highest-ranking military figure in his nation of 80 million, and with a […]
NATO states responded with an unjustified certainty to the Douma incident two years ago, and have compounded the shame with their treatment of weapons expert Ian Henderson this week at the UN. Preordained conclusions At an ‘Arria-formula’ meeting of the Security Council convened on January 20, 2020 at the request of Russia, Ian Henderson – a former member of the […]
The ruling Establishment has learnt a profound lesson from the debacle over Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. The lesson they have learnt is not that it is wrong to attack and destroy an entire country on the basis of lies. They have not learnt that lesson despite the fact the western powers are now busily attacking the Iraqi Shia majority […]
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By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich and Finian Cunningham – Sputnik – 13.01.2020 The 19-second video published by the New York Times last week showing the moment an Iranian missile hit a passenger jet has prompted much social media skepticism. Questions arise about the improbable timing and circumstances of recording the precise moment when the plane was hit. […]
Graphic by Claudio Cabrera for MintPress News By Whitney Webb | MintPress News | January 4, 2020 Election Day 2020: 32 Americans dead, over 200 injured, martial law declared and the election itself is canceled. While this horrific scenario seems more like the plot of a Hollywood film, such was the end result of a […]
21st Century Wire It’s New Year’s Eve again, which means it’s time for our annual wrap-up, looking at some of the most important and unusual, and dare we say conspiratorial events of 2019. This past year was built on the back of a highly polarizing 2018, which saw the post-World War II world order coming […]
