News.com.au | 30 July 2016 THE rise of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump combined with the Brexit fall out — the full effects of which are yet to be seen — are all signs another great war is looming, a leading British academic has warned. Tobias Stone, who specialises in archeology and anthropology, has…
Global Research | 24 July 2016 Foreign Service Officer Richard Cabot Howland, who was stationed in Jakarta from 1965 to 1966 at the Embassy in Indonesia, in 1970 published an article in the classified internal journal of the Central Intelligence Agency, Studies in Intelligence (“The Lessons of the September 30 Affair,” Vol. 14, Fall 1970: pp.13–28). The article…
Global Research | 22 July 2016 The truth about Indonesian history and the United States involvement in its ongoing tragedy is little known in the West. Australian historian, Greg Pulgrain, has been trying for decades to open people’s eyes to the realities of that history and to force a cleansing confrontation with the ugly truth. …
Counter Punch | 8 July 2016 After seven years, the Chilcot report has delivered a damning verdict on Tony Blair’s role in the war on Iraq, but British Prime Ministers playing a destructive role in Iraq is a centuries old practice. Britain has used its military might and commercial prowess to subjugate Iraq and control…
Dr Steve Pieczenik | 3 July 2016 Wiesel was one of the first professional writers to make a living documenting the deaths of Jews during WWII. Once again, the official narrative of an atrocity in history becomes distorted and blown out of proportion when a person like Elie Wiesel dies. My first and last encounter…
Daily Mail | 10 May 2009 Revealed: The secret report that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich …in the EU The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944. The document,…
BBC | 24 June 2016 Led Zeppelin did not plagiarise the opening chords of the rock epic Stairway to Heaven from the US band Spirit, a Los Angeles jury has found. It said the riff Led Zeppelin was accused of taking from Spirit’s 1967 song Taurus “was not intrinsically similar” to Stairway’s opening. But it…
BBC | 3 June 2016 On 27 January, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini – founder of Iran’s Islamic Republic, the man who called the United States “the Great Satan” – sent a secret message to Washington. From his home in exile outside Paris, the defiant leader of the Iranian revolution effectively offered the Carter administration a…
RT | 2 June 2016 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Ankara will take retaliatory measures after the German parliament voted to recognize as ‘genocide’ the Armenian massacre of 1915. Turkey has already recalled its ambassador to Germany in protest. Ambassador Huseyin Avni Karslioglu is expected to fly back to Turkey on Thursday afternoon,…
Harpers | 25 May 2016 Historian Gar Alperovitz on the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki As advertised, President Obama did not apologize for the U.S. nuclear strike that destroyed the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, on his recent visit to the city. Instead, he issued a vacuous call for the courage to…