By Dr Muriel Newman | From: NZCPR | November 22 2014 Last week the Waitangi Tribunal released WAI 1040 – a report into the claim by Ngapuhi and other northern iwi that their chiefs did not cede sovereignty to the Crown when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi. This first stage of their inquiry began in…
By Prof. James Petras | Global Research | November 16, 2014 On November 9, 2014, Germany and its Western Allies, celebrated the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ and the subsequent‘re-unification’of the ‘two Germanys’. Prime Minister Merkel described the ‘historic event’ as a “victory of freedom for all peoples in Europe and across the world.” The entire Western…
Ray McGovern | Consortium News | 16 Nov 2014 Exclusive: As the United States slides back into war in the Middle East, the specter of Vietnam hovers over the endeavor with some observers wondering if wishful thinking will again replace hardheaded analysis about the risks and the costs, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. By Ray…
Lawrence S. Wittner | History News Network | 16 Nov 2014 U.S. politicians and pundits are fond of saying that America’s wars have defended America’s freedom. But the historical record doesn’t bear out this contention. In fact, over the past century, U.S. wars have triggered major encroachments upon civil liberties. Shortly after the United States…
By Phillip Farruggio | The Sleuth Journal | 12 Nov 2014 In Joachim Fest’s fine biography of Adolf Hitler, aptly titled Hitler, we learn many things never before taught in our World History classes here. To delve into it now with the needed detail from this 700+ page masterpiece would be futile for me, the…
The Laura Flanders Show | 21 Oct 2014 On The Laura Flanders Show: Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi. And Glenn Greenwald addresses diversity concerns about his new media venture TheIntercept.com. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-yMiBGBOe0?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360]
By Michael Werbowski | Global Research | November 13, 2014 The “great powers” are marking the centenary of World War One. Ironically the world is still at war. There are global and regional conflicts in progress. Rising tensions between India and Pakistan (two nuclear powers), US-NATO led “civil wars” in Iraq and Syria, as well as the…
BBC | 8 Nov 2014 The world is on the brink of a new Cold War, and trust should be restored by dialogue with Russia, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said. At an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Sunday, Mr Gorbachev said the West had…
Eric Margolis | 8 Nov 2014 It was also the most dangerous moment the world had faced since the 1963 Cuban missile crisis. What would the Soviet leadership do? Just graciously give way or use its huge Red Army and KGB to crush the uprisings? Interestingly, in a raw exposure of shameful historical enmity,…
J.D. Bindenagel | The Globalist | 8 Nov 2014 This is a story about courage and freedom – in the form of an eyewitness report by an American diplomat serving in East Berlin, then the capital of the German Democratic Republic (GDR=East Germany) in 1989. That was the year, now a quarter century ago, when the…