Foreign Policy Journal | 21 Aug 2015 James Corbett discusses whether BRICS is truly a ‘resistance’ organization and how we can fight back against the powers that be. Following is a transcript of a recent interview with independent journalist James Corbett, where we discussed BRICS, the popular view that the organization is a resistance force, and…
NEO | 16 Aug 2015 Most people associate arms trafficking with films like “Merchant of Death” and big names like Viktor Bout, the subject of that film. They said “good riddance” when they heard that he had been captured and flown off in chains to the US to serve a 25 year sentence for a…
RT | 9 Aug 2015 [AM editor’s note: the AP is peddling propaganda for anonymous sources from the US intelligence community. Suggesting that Saddam era Baathists are running ISIS conveniently distracts from the now confirmed and out in the open fact that the US made a conscious decision to enable and facilitate the ascendency of…
Robert Parry | 30 July 2015 The neocon-flagship Washington Post fired a propaganda broadside at President Putin for shutting down the Russian activities of the National Endowment for Democracy, but left out key facts like NED’s U.S. government funding, its quasi-CIA role, and its plans for regime change in Moscow, writes Robert Parry. The Washington Post’s…
NEO | 27 July 2015 It’s hardly a secret for anyone that the United States and Saudi Arabia are longtime partners, hence Washington has historically been the guardian of Saudi interests in the Middle East. These special relations between the states were built back in the 1930s, when in exchange for security guarantees that were…
F. William Engdahl | NEO | 22 July 2015 The dual summits that took place in Russia’s Ufa beginning 9 July were anything but routine. In fact it may be seen by future historians as a signal event that marked the definitive decline of the global hegemony of European civilization including North America. This is…
The Independent | 4 May 2015 It amazes me that all these warriors of the air don’t regularly crash into each other Let me try to get this right. The Saudis are bombing Yemen because they fear the Shia Houthis are working for the Iranians. The Saudis are also bombing Isis in Iraq and the…
The Hindu | 17 July 2015 Thousands of Saudi documents shows how the government’s goal was not just to spread Sunni Islam but also to undermine its primary adversary: Shia Iran. For decades, Saudi Arabia has poured billions of its oil dollars into sympathetic Islamic organisations around the world, quietly practicing chequebook diplomacy to advance…
Atlas Monitor | 16 July 2015 I recently read email correspondence between forest and dairy industry experts that quickly turned into a geopolitical debate. Two of the experts are New Zealanders and the other American. One of the New Zealanders was lamenting US foreign meddling as a major contributor to the instability in world markets…
Statista | 12 June 2015 Analysing a country’s military presence overseas is a good way to gauge its global influence. How do the permanent members of the UN Security Council measure up when it comes to bases abroad? Charting the geographic spread of military power can prove difficult due to temporary deployments and the rapid…