F. William Engdahl | Veterans Today–New Eastern Outlook–RT | 10 October 2014 Forensic medicine is not my specialty but certain things are so obvious they beg common sense questions from journalists. The infamous youTube “beheading” videos of two US journalists by the ISIS in Syria/Iraq, aka IS or Daash or Al Qaeda in Iraq depending…
Dan Falcone | Truthout | 10 Ot 2014 Media analyst and professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School, Edward S. Herman, co-author with Noam Chomsky of Manufacturing Consent, discusses the propaganda embedded in US mainstream media coverage of the Ukraine crisis. Dan Falcone: What is missing in the US mainstream news coverage of Ukraine? What…
Mike Whitney | Counterpunch | October 10-12, 2014 The ISIS siege of Kobane continued overnight while cities across Turkey were set ablaze by Kurdish protestors. At least 19 civilians were killed by Turkish riot police who were trying to disperse angry crowds that had gathered to protest the government’s unwillingness to defend the predominantly Kurdish…
Mark Piesing | The Guardian | 7 Oct 2014 It is two years since Alexander Bard founded a new religion called Syntheism in which he claimed that the “the internet is God”. Activist, musician and now religious leader – and playing “the nasty judge” on Swedish Pop Idol – Bard now has a new way…
Andrea Vance | Sunday Star Times | 12 Oct 2014 OPINION: Welcome to the politics of fear. Chiming in with other Western governments, Prime Minister John Key has signalled he will once again overhaul spying legislation. Last year, foreign spying powers were beefed up, on the pretext of an illegal snooping scandal. This time around,…
NZ Herald | 12 Oct 2014 It would be “odd” for New Zealand not join the fight against ISIS when so many of our major trading partners were already involved, Prime Minister John Key said this morning. Appearing on TVNZ’s Q&A this morning, Prime Minister John Key said he was still considering what role New…
Preston James | Veterans Today | 9 Oct 2014 It has been reported that the Powers That Be (PTB) who control Secret Space War Units of the US and NATO Space Warfare Command have decided that actual verified Disclosure of the presence of Alien ETs and their anti-gravity craft will be allowed and will be…
TeleSur | 8 Oct 2014 Castro accused the U.S.-led Western alliance of promoting a “war of extermination” against the Russian Federation. The former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, this Wednesday accused the new NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg of promoting a “war of extermination” against Russia and described the military alliance as being “more extreme” than the Islamic State group. “Yesterday I listened to the…
Information Clearing House | 10 Oct 2014 Shocking documentary uncovers the subversion of Americas democracy. I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government. Note: The first one minute forty seven seconds of this program is in…
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy | 9 Oct 2014 We have known since . . . well, when haven’t we known that our public officials are incompetent. Their incompetence is always expensive, but now it risks a worldwide ebola pandemic. With so little known about a deadly disease, one would think that…