RT | 21 Dec 2014 Wikileaks has released two classified documents instructing CIA operatives how best to circumvent global security systems in international airports, including those of the EU, while on undercover missions. The first of the documents, dated September 2011, advises undercover operatives how to act during a secondary airport screening. Secondary screenings pose…
Chris Marsden | World Socialist Web Site | 20 December 2014 Innumerable redactions in the 525-page US Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of its report into torture by the CIA cannot conceal the complicity of the major European powers in the horrific crimes perpetrated by US imperialism. Last week it was revealed that Britain had requested that…
Martin Hellman | WWW | 15 Dec 2014 Now that President Obama’s administration is giving itself the option to have “boots on the ground” in Iraq, there has never been a more important time to look at how we get sucked into unending wars. Professor Martin Hellman examines how it’s been done for the last 70…
Barak Ravid | Haaretz | Dec. 17, 2014 Court delays implementing the ruling to allow appeals, drawing ire from Israeli PM Netanyahu and praise from Hamas as a ‘human rights’ victory. The General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg accepted the petition by Hamas in which it sought to have itself removed from the…
Thierry Meyssan | Votaire Network | 13 Dec 2014 Russia is reacting to the economic war which NATO is waging against her in the way she would have reacted in a conventional war. She allowed herself to be hit by unilateral “sanctions” in order to better lead the opponent to a battleground of her own…
by Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | December 15, 2014 Photographing cops and peaceful demos bring 3,000€ fine Spain will impose a raft of new laws to combat popular protests in opposition to EU central bankster austerity. The Ley Mordaza, or Gag Rule law passed Spain’s lower house of Parliament late last week. It essentially…
Matt Ridley | 26 Nov 2014 Increasingly, trade rules are set above the level of Brussels My column in the Times: In today’s speech on the European Union, previewed in this morning’s Times, Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary, will make a surprising and telling point. It is that many of the rules handed down to…
by RT | December 10, 2014 Poland cooperated in the CIA’s rendition program The CIA paid at least a million dollars to Poland for it to host secret prisons, where it incarcerated alleged 9/11 terror suspects, according to the recent US torture report. Warsaw had initially tried to halt the transfer of suspects, but…
James Petras | 6 Dec 2014 The principle Nazi ideological prop that secured massive financial and political support from Germany’s leading industrialists was the Communist and Soviet threat. The main Nazi military drive, absorbing two-thirds of its best troops, was directed eastward at conquering and destroying Russia. The ‘Russian Threat’ justified Nazi Germany’s conquest and occupation of…
Pepe Escobar| Russia Insider | 5 Dec 2014 So the EU “defeated” Putin by forcing him to cancel the South Stream pipeline. Thus ruled Western corporate media. Nonsense. Facts on the ground spell otherwise. This “Pipelineistan” gambit will continue to send massive geopolitical shockwaves all across Eurasia for quite some time. In a nutshell, a…