Evgeny Fedorov | ICH | 31 May 2014 A coup d´état under the guise of an ‘Orange Revolution’ is being prepared in Russia. The big picture and the details are given by Evgeny Fedorov, a deputy in the Russian parliament, and coordinator of the People’s Liberation Movement. The coup facilitator is the fifth column, which…
Paul Craig Roberts | 12 Dec 2014 On occasion a reader will ask if I can give readers some good news. The answer is: not unless I lie to you like “your” government and the mainstream media do. If you want faked “good news,” you need to retreat into The Matrix. In exchange for less…
RT | 7 Dec 2014 The bloody conflicts in Iraq, Syria and Libya are the result of the interference by the US, which wants to gain control over the rich natural resources of those countries, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir told RT. “The people in Sudan believe that the since the fall of the Soviet Union…
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian | The Guardian | 4 Feb 2014 The United States has long assumed the right to use violence to achieve its aims, but it is now less able to implement its policies This piece is adapted from Uprisings, a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the…
Philip Giraldi | American Conservative | 26 Nov 2014 Running an empire is not cheap. The revelation that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has run up $4.7 million in travel expenses, over 930,000 miles, and a total of 373 days on the road in his five years in office should not surprise anyone, until one realizes that…
JP Sottile | Truth Out | 21 Nov 2014 In a long, 200-year history of US interventionism, covert action and troubling support for repressive regimes, the story of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia, stands out as a grotesque example of militarism run amok. Since its inception in 1946,…
Moon Over Alabama | 20 Nov 2014 ISIS comes to Libya(CNN) — The black flag of ISIS flies over government buildings. Police cars carry the group’s insignia. The local football stadium is used for public executions. A town in Syria or Iraq? No. A city on the coast of the Mediterranean, in Libya. Fighters loyal…
William Blum | Anti-Empire Report | 19 Nov 2014 “Russia reinforced what Western and Ukrainian officials described as a stealth invasion on Wednesday [August 27], sending armored troops across the border as it expanded the conflict to a new section of Ukrainian territory. The latest incursion, which Ukraine’s military said included five armored personnel carriers,…
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…
Tom Englehardt | 11 Nov 2014 [What follows is a transcript of a therapy session between the American Empire and a psychiatrist whose name we at TomDispatch have agreed not to disclose. Normally, even in an age in which privacy means ever less to anyone, we wouldn’t consider publishing such a private encounter, but the probative news value of the exchange is…