Pop Matters | 7 Aug 2015 This is a dangerous book. It also is one whose importance and usefulness is hard to overstate. The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire is a massive attack on the ideological fiction so assiduously promoted by the government and corporate media that the United States is a…
GWPF | 7 Aug 2015 Global Coal Boom Accelerating Despite Obama’s Green Posturing At the very moment President Obama has decided to shutter America’s coal industry in favor of much more expensive and less efficient “renewable energy,” coal use is surging across the globe. A new study by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences detects an…
CounterPunch | 5 Aug 2015 Here’s your US foreign policy puzzler for the day: When is regime change not regime change? When the regime stays in power but loses its ability to rule. This is the current objective of US policy in Syria, to undermine Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s ability to govern the country…
VT | 5 Aug 2015 ‘More damaging than Watergate’: Ex-News of the World editor on Ted Heath rape claims Allegations that former Prime Minister Ted Heath raped a 12-year-old boy could be “far more damaging” to the political establishment than the Watergate scandal, according to former News of the World editor Neville Thurlbeck. If a…
Eric Zuesse | Global Research | August 05, 2015 It might be the decisive piece of evidence proving who and what and how and why the MH17 Malaysian airliner over the conflict zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014 was shot down, but the pilot’s corpse has been hidden even from the people who have the most…
Matt Ridley | 1 Aug 2015 I spent part of last week in Iceland, the antithesis of Greece. It’s been a hard winter and a cold spring up there, but despite the stiff northerly breeze off the Arctic ocean, economically speaking Iceland is basking in real warmth, while Greece shivers in financial winter. Iceland teaches…
Bryan Leyland | 4 Aug 2015 “Things you know that ain’t so – coral atolls are disappearing beneath rising oceans” No they are not. The fact that atolls exist proves that they can cope with rapidly rising sea levels. The world came out of the last ice age about 16,000 – 12,000 years ago. During…
VT | 4 Aug 2015 Putin issues an ultimatum to Turkey, “End all military support for ISIS” Russian President Vladimir Putin in a meeting with the Turkish Ambassador issued a verbal ultimatum calling for an immediate end to Turkey’s support for ISIS and violations of Syria’s sovereignty. In doing to, Putin has drawn a red…
Consortium News | 4 Aug 2015 The dirty secret about the Obama administration’s “regime change” strategy in Syria is that it amounts to a de facto alliance with Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front which is driving toward a possible victory with direct and indirect aid from Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel, as Daniel Lazare explains. By…