Peter Htchens | Daily Mail | 21 Dec 2014 This is a time of year for memories, and the ones that keep bothering me are from my childhood, which seemed at the time to be wholly happy and untroubled. Yet all the adults in my life still dwelt in the shadow of recent war. This…
Robert Parry | Consortium News | 22 December 2014 Among honest and knowledgeable people, there really isn’t much doubt about what happened in Ukraine last winter. There was a U.S.-backed coup which ousted a constitutionally elected president and replaced him with a regime more in line with U.S. interests. Even some smart people who agree with…
Jack A. Smith | Global Research | December 23, 2014 “The United States seems destined to plague us with miseries in the name of liberty.” – Simon Bolivar, the Liberator of Latin America “Once the United States is in Cuba, who will get it out?” – José Martí, Cuban national hero. Fair minded people and governments around the world have…
Mike Sivier | Vox Political | December 23, 2014 The rampant child sex abuse of Savile over decades was hushed up Several events in the last few days have highlighted poignantly how the British Establishment – the small political-economic-financial elite who went to the same public schools and the same universities (usually Oxbridge) –…
Gareth Porter |Truthout | 17 Dec 2014 The Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report sheds new light on how the CIA created and then continued to protect its false claim that it found Osama bin Laden in part because of its abusive interrogation tactics. The report presents detailed evidence based on reviewing millions of pages of…
Patrick Martin | World Socialist Web Site | 22 Dec 2014 Coming soon to a theater near you, a US imperialist propaganda blockbuster, the latest production from CIA Pictures, made in participation with Pentagon Entertainment, and with the collaboration of American Media Partners: Cyberwar North Korea. Such an announcement would have been useful last week, to alert…
Rosa Prince | The Telegraph | December 22, 2014 The Government is deliberately sabotaging the inquiry into historic claims of child abuse to protect “high profile figures,” a Labour MP has claimed. Simon Danczuk, the backbencher who has led the calls for an inquiry into allegations of abuse dating back decades, said the problems which had…
RT | 22 Dec 2014 The last of them merged with al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda spin-off that recently joined ISIS. There are no moderates fighting the proxy war against the al-Assad government. In short, Israel is supporting ISIS and terrorists. But this is nothing new. The U.S., Israel and other states will support terrorists, even brutal…
Yahoo News | 20 Dec 2014 Caracas (AFP) – Tighter new US sanctions against Venezuela are aimed to foment violent unrest to try to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro, his defense minister said Saturday. “This US interference is aimed at promoting violence… against our institutions” to oust staunch US critic Maduro, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino told…