By Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report | November 15, 2017 The massive leaking of the so-called “Paradise Papers” detailing the myriad ways corporations and individual billionaires hide their money in tax havens around the world, provided news organizations a chance to make the case for reining in global capital. Unlike the 2015 leak of […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | November 14, 2107 A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s and the early 1980s is that then – even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan – […]
By Neil Clark | RT | November 14, 2017 It was Dr Samuel Johnson who famously declared in 1775 that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. The 2017 variant is to make unsubstantiated claims about the ‘Russian threat’ to Western democracies. In her speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in the City of […]
By Alex GORKA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 14.11.2017 Few people are able to recognize their own mistakes. Many prefer to deny the truth becoming willfully oblivious to obvious facts. Why assume responsibility if there is such a thing as blame shifting – a true-and-tried method to get away with it? Pointing a finger at […]
No, not The Onion… By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | November 11, 2017 In what is perhaps the least surprising tactic from the Spanish establishment, a government-backed research institute in Madrid has stated that Spain’s struggle to quash separatism in its Catalonia region was disrupted by Russian hackers agitating for a break-up, in a […]
By Stephen Lendman | November 12, 2107 It infests America like a malignant tumor, exceeding the worst of the post-WW I “Red Scare” and its repeat following WW II. Beginning in 1938, House Un-American Activities Committee witch-hunt hearings into alleged disloyalty and subversive activities became headline news. Starting in the late 1960s, more of the […]
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | November 13, 2107 If the bloody debacle in Iraq should have taught Americans anything, it is that endorsements by lots of important people who think something is true don’t amount to evidence that it actually is true. If endorsements were the same as evidence, U.S. troops would have […]
Press TV – November 11, 2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again strongly rejected claims that Moscow interfered in the 2016 US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump, saying these allegations are mere “fantasies.” The Russian leader made the remarks at a news briefing on the sidelines of the annual summit of the […]
Sputnik – November 10, 2017 Many key figures in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign have incurred sizeable legal fees as a result of ongoing investigations into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Adviser Roger Stone has gone so far as to email supporters asking for financial assistance. Roger Stone, longtime adviser to US President […]
By Finian Cunningham | RT | November 10, 2017 Defense ministers of the US-led NATO alliance this week endorsed proposals to set up two new military commands – and it is clear Russia is the target of what are, in effect, war plans. The setting up of an Atlantic command and a logistical hub in […]
