Robert Parry | 13 Sept 2015 Official Washington’s new “group think” is to blame Russia’s President Putin for the Syrian crisis, although it was the neocons and President George W. Bush who started the current Mideast mess by invading Iraq, the Saudis who funded Al Qaeda, and the Israelis who plotted “regime change,” says Robert Parry. By…
Brian Leyland | 7 Sept 2015 “Things you know that ain’t so – Governments can rely on their expert advisers.” (To be honest, not many people now believe this but it seems that governments frequently do.) In the last few days I have come across two serious derelictions of duty by people relied upon by the government…
Glenn Greenwald | 16 Sept 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi5z4M5dm4o?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] The ongoing atrocities by Saudi Arabia and its “coalition partners” in Yemen reflect powerfully — and horribly — on both the U.S. and U.K. That’s true not only because those two countries in general are among the closest allies of the Saudi regime, but also because they…
Radio NZ | 16 Sept 2015 Investing heavily in school computers and classroom technology does not improve pupils’ performance, a global study from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows. The think tank said frequent use of computers in schools was more likely to be associated with lower results. OECD education director Andreas…
Mint Press | 14 Sept 2015 Cables reveal that before the beginning of the Syrian revolt and civil war, the United States hoped to overthrow Assad and create strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. LONDON — Speaking from Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that the United States planned to overthrow the Syrian government…
Global Research | September 14, 2015 On September 11, a publication called Russian Spring reported US unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks on Syrian military positions – “disguised as an airstrike on ISIS.” Syrian journalists learned details of what’s happening. Numerous civilians were killed. According to Syrian military sources, covert US drone strikes against its forces and positions…
The Saker | 9 September 2015 Russia has taken the lead in supporting Syria this summer, actively initiating efforts to bring a diplomatic resolution to the country’s crisis and assemble an inclusive anti-ISIL coalition. The rapid pace at which it’s working is due in large part to the looming specter of a joint American-Turkish invasion force which hangs ominously…
Sputnik | 23 March 2015 The Clinton Foundation contributed to the February coup in Ukraine, having longstanding ties to Ukrainian oligarchs who pushed the country to European integration. A sinister atmosphere surrounds the Clinton Foundation’s role in Ukrainian military coup of February 2014, experts point out.It has recently turned out that Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Pinchuk, a vocal proponent…
New Eastern Outlook |13 September 2015 Starting in 2007, the US was already in the process of engineering the overthrow and destruction of all prevailing political orders across the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. It would be in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s 2007 New Yorker article, “The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new…
Eric Zuesse | 14 Sept 215 United States is pushing on with its efforts to restart the war On September 6th, Ukraine’s apostrophe news-site headlined, “Putin will try to return the Donbass to the Ukraine — Gerashchenko,” and quoted a prominent member of Ukraine’s parliament who is also a member of the committee overseeing Ukraine’s national security, Anton…