Stephen F. Cohen | 3 Feb 2016 The Pentagon’s announcement that it will quadruple US-NATO military forces in countries on or near Russia’s borders pushes the new Cold War toward actual war, possibly even a nuclear one. Hear interview with Stephen F. Cohen on The John Batchelor Show, February 2. Nation contributing editor Stephen F.…
Robert Fisk | 6 Feb 2016 After losing up to 60,000 soldiers in five years of fighting, the Syrian army has suddenly scored its greatest victory of the war – smashing its way through Jabhat al-Nusra and the other rebel forces around Aleppo and effectively sealing its fate as Russia provided air strike operations outside…
Moon of Alabama | 7 Feb 2016 According to this report from Middle East Eye U.S. Secretary of State blamed the opposition for the continuing bombing in Syria: US Secretary of State John Kerry told Syrian aid workers, hours after the Geneva peace talks fell apart, that the country should expect another three months of…
Silent Crow News | 7 Feb 2016 Washington must be getting nervous with the latest announcement from Iran’s state-owned oil company, the National Iranian Oil CO (NIOC) which declared that Iran will replace US dollars with Euros for its oil trades according to a Reuter’s news article titled ‘Exclusive: Iran wants euro payment for new and outstanding oil sales…
RT | 5 Feb 2016 A UN panel has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ‘arbitrarily detained’ in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, calling upon the UK and Sweden to end Assange’s deprivation of liberty. “The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) … considered that Mr. Julian Assange was arbitrarily detained by the…
Stuff | 7 Feb 2016 The New Zealand government should be more realistic about the benefits of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement TPPA will only deliver for us if we are honest about it. But our government and business leaders aren’t. Yet, New Zealand needs them to be utterly clear-eyed and realistic about this trade and…
GWPF | 5 Feb 2016 UN Climate Deal Could Make 5 Million More Africans Homeless To Fight Global Warming Ever wonder about the neutrality (or lack thereof) of scientists investigating the subject of global warming? Does it seem that far too many of them eagerly sound alarm bells when it comes to documenting and communicating…
Paul Joseph Watson | 8 Feb 2016 As UN ambassador, Albright justified the death of 500,000 children Madeleine Albright’s warning that women who don’t vote for Hillary are going to hell should probably be taken seriously given that Albright once justified the deaths of half a million Iraqi children, and almost certainly has a special…
Global Research | 4 Feb 2016 The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Zika virus a global health emergency on Monday (February 1) without providing much detail on the disease. So here are some facts until we receive more information: This sexually-transmitted virus has been around for 69 years and is marketed by two companies:…
GWPF | 4 Feb 2016 Stanford Geologists Refute Standard Coal Development Theory Two Stanford geologists are disputing the decade-old explanation of the large amount of coal accumulated during the Carboniferous Period. Associate Professor Kevin Boyce and Postdoctorate Research Fellow Matthew Nelsen collaborated with scientists across the country to release a paper this past month in…