Alfred W. McCoy | 21 Feb 2016 In October 2001, the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan largely through proxy Afghan fighters with the help of Special Operations forces, American air power, and CIA dollars. The results were swift and stunning. The Taliban was whipped, a new government headed by Hamid Karzai soon installed in…
VT | 21 Feb 2016 Saudi Arabia is no state at all. It’s an unstable business so corrupt to resemble a criminal organization and the U.S. should get ready for the day after. BY SARAH CHAYES ALEX DE WAAL Alex de Waal is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation and a research professor at…
RT | 23 Feb 2016 Wikileaks published a new trove of top secret documents revealing that the NSA spied on the private meetings of major world leaders, including UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, German chancellor Merkel, as well as the prime ministers of Italy and Israel. The National Security Agency (NSA) listened in on high-level meetings…
Sun Star | 21 Feb 2016 EVEN with the launch of the world’s first dengue vaccine, the Department of Health (DOH) is reminding the public that it still better to maintain cleanliness in the community to prevent dengue outbreak. DOH secretary Janette Garin said having the dengue vaccine available in the market does not mean…
RT | 22 Feb 2016 NATO’s promises of security and attempts to drag Serbia into the alliance are particularly humiliating for the Balkan country at a time when two of its diplomats held hostage in Libya were killed in a pin-point US airstrike, Russia’s FM spokeswoman said. On Friday, US airstrikes against positions of an…
NZ Herald | 22 Feb 2016 Is the National Government harming New Zealand’s corruption-free status? Recent reports and controversies suggest that the Government has some transparency and accountability problems. Is the National Government harming New Zealand’s corruption-free status? New Zealand’s reputation for low levels of corruption was hurt last month when the annual Transparency International…
Russian Insider | 16 Feb 2016 ‘Heroes’ and victims of 80’s US disinformation provide clues to today’s Russian scare To win the cold war President Ronald Reagan formed a secret ‘deception committee’ for a disinformation campaign against the USSR On several occasions ‘disinformation’ put the world on the brink of nuclear war The ‘Soviet’ U-boat…
TFC | 15 Feb 2016 As more and more evidence mounts that the US government was secretly assisting the Islamic State, it might be time to point out a few instances when the Central Intelligence Agency created secret armies. The current theory suggests the US secretly supported the Islamic State so the Islamists would destabilize the government…
National Post | 18 Feb 2016 A prestigious medical journal has suddenly withdrawn a Canadian co-authored study that cast doubt on the safety of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, amid concerns that questionable science is undermining an important public-health tool. The paper concluded that mice injected with the Gardasil HPV vaccine exhibited behavioural abnormalities, and…
GWPF | 18 Feb 2016 Research Confirms Peiser’s 2005 Critique Of Jared Diamond A new study led by a Binghamton University archaeologist contradicts the belief that the ancient civilization of Rapa Nui, Chile, was destroyed by warfare. An analysis of artifacts found on what was previously called Easter Island revealed that these objects were likely general…