NZ Herald | 27 July 2015 The leaking of information can often perform a public service. The Pentagon papers about the war in Vietnam played a crucial role in changing the American public’s perceptions of the war. The secret informant named ‘deep throat’ (later revealed to be an Associate Director of the FBI) most famously…
Counterpunch | 24 July 2015 “Today we know that the risk of heart attack and stroke may occur early in treatment, even in the first weeks … “There is no period of use shown to be without risk,” says Judy Racoosin, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director of FDA’s Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia, and Addiction Products.” – FDA website In…
Infowars.com | July 24, 2015 Did the CIA ever stop its experiments with mind altering psychoactive substances? [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STtaFO9ogNA?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] Infowars speaks with John L. Potash, the author of Drugs as Weapons Against Us, about the CIA’s targeting of some of the most famous names in the music industry, from Tupac to John Lennon to Kurt…
Middle East Eye | July 24, 2015 Britain has actively contributed to the creation a humanitarian disaster in Yemen, and potentially helped turn the Middle East’s poorest state into the new Syria. Not hyperbole or rhetoric, just a bald statement of fact. I’ll leave it to others to try to explain the near total silence…
Washington’s Blog | 23 July 2015 The alternative press has noted for months that Israel is supporting jihadis in Syria. But Israel has consistently denied these allegations … until now. The Times of Israel reported 3 weeks ago: Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Monday that Israel has been providing aid to Syrian rebels, thus keeping…
GWPF | 24 July 2015 Climate Agenda ‘Dictated By Left-Wing Anti-Capitalists’, Says UK Climate Secretary The government has signed the death warrant for another environmental scheme, this time the Green Deal energy-saving programme that ministers once called the biggest home improvement measure since the second world war. A day after moving to axe solar farm and woodchip power subsidies,…
VT | 23 July 2015 Assad is clearly winning with Iranian help, something America should want, but does it? There is nothing of this in the Western press but in the Middle East, everyone is discussing what they believe to be secret codicils to the Iran nuclear agreement. According to rumors no one seems to know…
Matt Ridley | 11 July 2015 In June I published a lengthy essay in Quadrant magazine on the effect that the global warming debate is having on science itself: For much of my life I have been a science writer. That means I eavesdrop on what’s going on in laboratories so I can tell interesting…
GWPF | 23 July 2015 Global Warming Pause and How To Lie With Statistics Comparing new NOAA annual global surface temperature data to NASA Giss and HadCRUT4 data – graph: Whitehouse 2015. A slow-down in global warming is not a sign that climate change is ending, university researchers have found. The phenomenon is a natural blip in…
AlterNet | 5 Oct 2015 [AM editor’s note: Matt Taibbi sure made a fool of himself in that exchange] The two writers lock horns over the accuracy of Griffin’s recent book A poll of 17 countries that came out September of this year revealed that majorities in only nine of them “believe that al Qaeda…