By Phil Butler – New Eastern Outlook – 19.03.2017 Geo-politics in this bold new 21st century world is anything but boring. Just look at the headlines and you’ll agree, 1970s tabloids were real news compared to today’s sensationalist propaganda. One shining example from America’s capital, the Washington Post has become a barometer for truth – […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | March 15, 2017 The Kagan family, America’s neoconservative aristocracy, has reemerged having recovered from the letdown over not gaining its expected influence from the election of Hillary Clinton and from its loss of official power at the start of the Trump presidency. Back pontificating on prominent op-ed pages, […]
By Gareth Porter | Consortium News | March 11, 2017 The March 1 report by the United Nations’ “Independent International Commission of Inquiry” asserted that the bloody attack on a humanitarian aid convoy west of Aleppo City on Sept. 19, 2016, was an airstrike by Syrian government planes. But an analysis of the U.N. panel’s […]
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | March 11, 2017 My analysis of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s recent statements on climate change, and the response to his statements. Last week, there was a controversial interview of Scott Pruitt on CNBC. A sampling of the headlines reporting on his interview: New Yorker : Scott Pruitt rejects climate change reality. A […]
U.S. Ambassador Daniel Fried, who recently retired as the State Department’s coordinator for sanctions policy. By James W Carden | Consortium News | March 7, 2017 It’s probably safe to wager that few people outside of Washington, and perhaps even quite a few people inside it, have ever heard of Ambassador Daniel Fried — at […]
By Daniel Lazare | Consortium News | March 1, 2017 The New York Times has made it official. In a Sunday front-page article entitled “Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media. Washington Is a Different Story,” the paper gloats that Donald Trump has proved powerless to stop a flood of leaks threatening to capsize his administration. As reporters […]
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | February 28, 2017 It’s heartwarming that The New York Times and The Washington Post are troubled that President Trump is loosely throwing around accusations of “fake news.” It’s nice that they now realize that truth does not reliably come from the mouth of every senior government official or from […]
Exclusive: Just weeks ago, mainstream U.S. media decried “fake news” and backed a blacklist of independent news sites over “Russian propaganda.” Now, under fire from President Trump, the MSM loves a free press, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry It’s…Read more →
By Salman Rafi Sheikh | New Eastern Outlook | 28.02.2017 With the departure of the Trump’s national security adviser, political crisis in the US has only depended and is likely to exacerbate into a full-fledged struggle for power and control between Trump and what some call ‘deep-state.’ While Donald Trump is an elected president of […]
