by DIANA JOHNSTONE | Counterpunch | June 8, 2014 NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Russia and the West. With astonishing unanimity, NATO leaders feign surprise at events they planned months in advance. Events that they deliberately triggered are being misrepresented as sudden,…
by Eric Zuesse | GLOBAL RESEARCH | June 8, 2014 Ukraine’s civil war started on 2 May 2014, when supporters of the February-coup-imposed (click on that link if you don’t know about that coup) Ukrainian central government firebombed Odessa’s Trade Unions Building, incinerating hundreds of Odessans who opposed the coup. This civil war is of massive historical importance, because it re-starts…
by Paul Craig Roberts | June 8, 2014 In case you didn’t hear from the presstitute media, Syrian president Assad was just re-elected with 88.7% of the vote. Assad is the “brutal dictator” that Obama claims the Syrian people are trying to overthrow. The vote clearly puts the lie, yet again, to Washington. Voting was…
by Washington’s Blog | June 8, 2014 NSA whistleblower Russel Tice was a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping. Tice told PBS and other media that the NSA is spying on – and blackmailing – top government officials and military…
Kurt Nimmo | Infowars.com | June 7, 2014 Last week Obama took to his teleprompter to tell the American people the United States will provide lethal aid to “moderate” mercenaries fighting in Syria to overthrow the al-Assad government. Obama’s declaration was nothing new. In September, the mercenaries said they were receiving weapons from the United…
By Eric Zuesse Global Research June 06, 2014 Preface by Washington’s Blog: In the book To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon’s Secret War Plans, one of the world’s leading physicists – Michio Kaku – reveals declassified plans for the U.S. to launch a first-strike nuclear war against Russia. The forward was written by former…
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya June 01, 2014 Global Research A natural gas deal between Russia and China was in the works for a long time, so why all the fuss over its unveiling? One has to look beyond the headlines when considering world events. The ballyhoo that is made of many of these events is…
By Norman Solomon June 06, 2014 Global Research Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing creates a moral frequency that vast numbers of people are eager to hear. We don’t want our lives, communities, country and world continually damaged by the deadening silences of fear and conformity. I’ve met many whistleblowers over the years, and they’ve been…
Global Research June 02, 2014 Joachim Hagopian In late May 2014, President Obama rolled out his foreign policy initiatives at West Point and said nothing new. Every lie he uttered is just a retread cover for the same old, same old disastrous foreign policy the US has engaged in since the cold war began shortly…
NZ Herald 5 June 2014 A major terrorism trial is set to be heard entirely in secret in a “totally unprecedented departure” from centuries of open justice in Britain, it can be disclosed. For the first time in British legal history, two men charged with serious terror offences will be kept anonymous and the press…