Is Ukraine’s President Poroshenko Taking Orders from the CIA?

by Olga Shedrova | Strategic Culture Foundation | June 11, 2014 While the death toll among civilians is growing in Ukraine the United States continues its policy aimed at escalation of the conflict. It offers all kinds of support to Kiev including military aid. Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow said the cooperation is going to…

Moms on antidepressants have babies with malformed brains

WMD 11 Jun 2014 David Kupelian Almost one in five children born to mothers taking antidepressants during pregnancy have a brain defect – called a “Chiari type 1 malformation” – according to a groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study, titled Rate of Chiari I Malformation in…

Putin ‘like Hitler’? How did Prince Charles get it so wrong?

By Israel Shamir Global Research June 10, 2014 Far from being ‘like Hitler’ as Prince Charles accuses, Putin is sober, cautious, defensive, a stickler for international law, determined to modernise Russia, and anxious to avoid military confrontation. Israel Shamir sees through the NATO propaganda … Putin’s choice is not an easy one. As Russia procrastinates,…

Australia And Canada Form Climate Realist Alliance

Global Warming Policy Foundation 10 June 2014 Obama Isolated As Western Allies Oppose Unilateral Climate Policies The political leaders of Canada and Australia declared on Monday they won’t take any action to battle climate change that harms their national economies and threatens jobs. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that no country is going to undertake actions…

Myths & realities of World War II

Global Research 10 June 2014 The Myth of the Good War: America in World War II – Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels   Contrary to conventional beliefs about the Yalta Conference, Stalin would prove to be most accommodating there, agreeing to a formula proposed by the British and Americans and highly advantageous to them, namely, a division…

Canada: Study prompts provinces to rethink flu plan

By Patrick White Global Research, October 03, 2009 The Globe and Mail 30 September 2009 A “perplexing” Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and testing public faith in the government agencies responsible for protecting the nation’s health. Distributed for peer review last week, the study confounded…

Canada: Study prompts provinces to rethink flu plan

By Patrick White Global Research, October 03, 2009 The Globe and Mail 30 September 2009 A “perplexing” Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and testing public faith in the government agencies responsible for protecting the nation’s health. Distributed for peer review last week, the study confounded…

Francis Fukuyama revisits the End of History, 25 years on

The Listener 10 June 2014 Toby Manhire In 1989, political economist Francis Fukuyama forecast “the end of history”. His article (PDF) for the National Interest, published about the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in China and just a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, attracted huge acclaim and huge derision for…

Antarctic Sea Ice Grows To New Record Extent

Antarctic sea ice has set a new record for May, with extent at the highest level since measurements began in 1979. At the end of the month, it expanded to 12.965 million sq km, beating the previous record of 12.722 million sq km set in 2010. –-Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That,…