US Has Little to Offer Southeast Asia
December 29, 2018 (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Any productive relationship between two nations must include mutual benefits for both.
December 29, 2018 (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Any productive relationship between two nations must include mutual benefits for both.
Calls for a Universal Basic Income have been increasing, most recently as part of the Green New Deal introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and supported in the last month by at least 40 members of Congress. A Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a monthly payment to all adults with no strings attached, similar to […]
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | December 28, 2018 The Syrian government forces have entered the northern town of Manbij on the Turkish border earlier today. The Syrian military command announced in Damascus that the operation stemmed from the commitment to “impose sovereignty to each inch of Syrian territories and in response to […]
RT | December 28, 2018 US cyber-security experts have blamed Russia for meddling in American elections since 2016. Now it has emerged that authors of a Senate report on ‘Russian’ meddling actually ran a “false flag” meddling operation themselves. A week before Christmas, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report accusing Russia of depressing Democrat […]
by NoahWell, the year is almost over and my annual year in review will soon come to an end. But, before I get to that point, I thought it might be nice to shine a light on some of the other lesser republican nutjobs, assorted party luminaries, up and comers, relative unknowns, and ordinary Republican citizens alike. Today’s installment is a small sample of Republicans who really let their Nazi flag fly in 2018.
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After a month of tranquillity, fracking has resumed at the Preston New Road site near Blackpool triggering the biggest tremor to date.
There have been 12 tremors over a four-day period, including the biggest so far – the 1.5 magnitude quake.
After a month of tranquillity, fracking has resumed at the Preston New Road site near Blackpool triggering the biggest tremor to date.
There have been 12 tremors over a four-day period, including the biggest so far – the 1.5 magnitude quake.
By Ivan Kesic | Consortium News | December 27, 2018 When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave speeches about mega corruption in Iran this year, he did not cite a Reuters’ 2013 article or give credit to its three reporters; Steve Stecklow, Babak Dehghanpisheh and Yeganeh Torbati. Instead he presented it as the kind of specialized […]
By Dean Baker | Beat The Press | December 26, 2018 A friend called my attention to this Project Syndicate piece by Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard economics professor and former chief economist at the I.M.F. Rogoff argues that Russia will need major economic reform and political reform in order for its economy to get back […]
Interesting headline from Jerusalem Post...Syrian regime, Turkey, maneuver to take key Syrian city .....What caught my eye was the word maneuverManeuver defined:
by Le Saker Francophone for The Saker Blog The genesis of the yellow vests Back to French presidential election in 2002, second round, Chirac won against Le Pen (father) 82%
By Rostislav Ishchenko Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard cross posted with https://www.stalkerzone.org/rostislav-ishchenko-the-baltics-are-respons… source: https://ee.sputniknews.ru/columnists/20181227/14343187/ishhenko-rusofob… The Baltic countries are the best example of how dependent countries can force
(GPA) – While western media frets over Trump’s withdrawal from Syria, Ukraine is trying to start a war with Russia. While much of the western media is fretting over the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northern Syria there is another potential conflict brewing. This time, the trouble is, once again, coming […]
“Do you remember all the songs they used to play” on Media Monarchy’s year-end mixtape: "Firepower" and the #BestOf2018! Over six hours of our favorite music from the last year: Indie rock, pop, metal, country, jazz and more! ♬
By Aidan O’Brien | CounterPunch | December 27, 2018 Brexit has exposed Ireland as much as it has exposed Britain. In the on and off deal between the UK and the EU, the future of the Irish border, and therefore the future of Ireland, is being decided by faceless bureaucrats in Britain and Brussels. This […]
Consortium News on Friday night broadcast live the 10th online vigil for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Among the guests was Francis Boyle, a University of Illinois international law professor, who spoke about his experiences with the U.S.-British extradition treaty. Other guests…Read more →
By Salman Rafi Sheikh – New Eastern Outlook – 24.12.2018 While the Trump administration may think otherwise and even take the credit for initiating dialogue with the Taliban on an unprecedented level with a view to pulling the US out of Afghanistan, there can hardly be any doubt that negotiations, after 17 years of continuous […]
Folks please bear with me. With yesterday's computer problems I am way behind, and unable to blog today as I originally had intended, as […]
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By Thomas L. Knapp | Garrison Center | December 27, 2018 In March, US president Donald Trump promised the American public that US troops would be leaving Syria “very soon.” Nine months later, he threw Washington’s political establishment into turmoil by finally ordering the withdrawal he’d promised. Politicians like US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who’d […]
By Dmitry MININ | Strategic Culture Foundation | 28.12.2018 It is not only many members of the US establishment who have labeled President Trump’s order to withdraw America’s forces (2,200 troops) from Syria as a betrayal, but also the allies of the United States. They claim that Trump is throwing the Syrian Kurds under the […]
In Quang Tri Province in Vietnam, above, hundreds of people have been killed or maimed from unexploded ordnances like cluster munitions, weapons leftover from the US war there. The US is reversing its policy on using older cluster munitions while it tests new ones with an Israeli company. WERNER ANDERSON/CREATIVE COMMONS
RT | December 28, 2018 Attempts by Arab states to mend ties with Damascus serve to bolster the Syrian government’s victories on the ground and may well see the West changing its attitude towards the country, Middle East experts have told RT. The first sign of a thaw between Syria and its Arab neighbors came […]
By F. William Engdahl – New Eastern Outlook – 25.12.2018 There is a great uproar over the recent decision by US President Trump to pull US troops out of Syria, announcing his reason for doing so is that ISIS, the so-called Islamic State, has largely been defeated. What lies behind the decision and more important, […]
Time is running out to make a tax-deductible donation for your 2018 returns to help keep Consortium News going. If you want to keep reading original articles by Ray McGovern, Max Blumenthal, Pepe Escobar, Patrick Lawrence, Annie Machon, and more please…Read more →
President Trump’s foreign policy appointments have frequently been difficult to reconcile with the views he has often expressed. The most disappointing was the appointment of John Bolton as National Security Advisor.
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In the video above, you can see our friends at Cuéntame calling out corrupt hypocrite Debbie Wasserman Schultz for her scandalous role in the prison-for-profit system. Cuéntame wanted to know why Wasserman Schultz, then head of the DNC was "siding with the Corrections Corporation of America and not her constituents in Southwest Ranches?
On Nov. 7, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry received an encouraging letter from Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Berman pledged that his office would initiate steps to convene a special grand jury relating to the crimes committed on 9/11.
Photo Credit: Abdülhamid Hoşbaş – Anadolu Agency Tapainfo.com – 11/22/2018 “Nation states must today be prepared to give up their sovereignty”, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who told an audience in Berlin that sovereign nation states must not listen to the will of their citizens when it comes to questions of immigration, borders, or […]
What if the way we purchase food were as heavily regulated as health care?
Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersh on the Whorehouse Called the US Media
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Life isn’t always easy for night owls (one who often stays up late at night). They’re not the ones to hop out of bed early in the morning and enjoy a fresh cup of coffee. Unfortunately, being a night owl comes with some other harsh realities, too, including a greater risk of health problems not necessarily faced by morning people.
Editorial of the current issue of Frontier, Kolkata The long battle over. 61 Mott Lane is over. What is not over is the trauma faced by the employees of Frontier in the morning of December 17, 2018. Finally Frontier will have to vacate this place in a week or two. It all started way back in 1985 when Samar Sen[Read More...]
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Syrian War Report – Dec. 28, 2018: YPG Invites Syrian Army To Manbij On December 28, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) released an official statement inviting the Damascus government
The NYT wrote yesterday, Christmas Day, that an 8-year old Guatemalan boy died in US Border Control custody. The circumstances are not clear, or are simply not reported. A month earlier, a 7-year old girl, also from Guatemala, died also in US Border Control custody. Here too, the circumstances are not revealed. How many more children, not mentioned by[Read More...]
If we compare the economic thought of Romer and Nordhaus, the two men who shared the 2018 Noble Prize for Economics, and that of Karl Marx, in terms of their conceptions of man, nature and technology, we are better able to understand the differences between capitalist and communist economic theory. One of the factors determining the decision to award the[Read More...]