Op-Ed

WaPo Deletes Branson’s Venezuela Concert From Article After ‘Fake’ Attendance Figures Exposed

(ZH Op-ed) — The Washington Post has stealth-edited all mention of Richard Branson’s Venezuela aid concert in Cucuta, Colombia, after the paper originally claimed that the event “drew a crowd of more than 200,000 people Friday.” Branson hoped to attract 250,000 people to the concert and raise $100 million to “buy food and medicine for Venezuelans suffering widespread shortages.” The original […]

Getting Rid of Ilhan Omar: Neocons Dig Deep to Remove a Critic of Israel

(AHT Op-ed) — It has been observed that the neoconservatives are a lot like the legendary bird the Phoenix, which burns to death and then, miraculously, rises from the ashes in new plumage. The neocons first rose to prominence under President Ronald Reagan, when they took over key offices in the Pentagon. They were subsequently somewhat ostracized under […]

Ilhan Omar is Turning the Tables on Congress and the US Establishment is Freaking Out

It is about time for a new narrative that looks at the equation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism as itself a manifestation of racism. (MEE Op-ed) — Just about anyone with a political opinion in the US agrees on one truth: there is too much financial interference in American politics. This is noted in the regular demand, expressed more […]

Roseanne Barr’s Racism is Welcome in Israel

(MEMO Op-ed) — The disgraced American actor-comedian Roseanne Barr was welcomed warmly in Israel last month. No surprise in that, you may think, but it now appears that this was precisely because of her racism. Once the toast of the liberal Hollywood establishment, Barr has over the past few years re-modelled herself as a rabid supporter of US […]

Ilhan Omar’s Tweet Storm: ‘Criticizing AIPAC Is Not Anti-Semitic’

Commentators are concerned that any criticism of Israel is now being conflated with accusations of anti-Semitism. (MEE) — It was only a matter of time before the gloves came off. Following the election of Somali-American Ilhan Omar and Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib into the US Congress in November, the arrival of these two Muslim women in Washington has […]

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar Smacks Down Elliott Abrams in Front of Everybody

(CJ Opinion) — Days after being smashed with a vicious establishment smear campaign to paint her as an antisemite for accurately criticizing AIPAC, Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is already back on the horse aggressively disrupting the establishment narrative matrix that our rulers have worked so hard to construct for us. Elliott Abrams is a monster. The atrocities that he has facilitated, covered […]

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Are in the Crosshairs of the Saudi-Israel Axis

The fledgling Saudi-Israel nexus is working in tandem to smear and blunt the impact of two progressive Muslim women in Congress (MEE Op-ed) — Hardly anything has been more disruptive to geopolitics as usual in the Middle East than the newly flourishing relationship between the Saudi monarchy and the state of Israel. While the newfound coziness between the two states […]

Juan Guaido Promises Oil Deals for US Gas Giants If He Takes Power

(GPA) – Making the empires ambitions clear, US stooge Juan Guaidó has promised Venezuelan oil to US corporations. The US-backed Venezuelan “government” of Juan Guaidó has said there will be plenty of money to be made for Wall Street under a government without the current President, Nicolas Maduro. According to reports, this offer was made during a […]

These McCarthyite Accusations Benefit No One and Harm Everyone

(CJ Opinion) — In response to the reprehensible NBC hit piece we discussed the other day in which Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard was smeared as a darling of the Russian government, journalist Glenn Greenwald published an article documenting the astonishing amount of journalistic malpractice which went into the piece’s formation. In the article, Greenwald wrote the […]

A radical new vision for the World Bank and the IMF – op-ed with David Adler, in The Guardian

The president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, will step down on 1 February – three and a half years before the end of his term – in search of greener pastures. His readiness to resign from the leadership of one the two most powerful international institutions is a worrying omen. But it is also an important wake-up call.