Stephen F. Cohen | 9 June 2016 NATO is continuing its military buildup and “exercises” on Russia’s borders, Moscow is taking “counter-measures,” while the US mainstream media remains silent Listen to audio of discussion between Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor Nation contributing editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of…
Salon | WSJ: FBI is investigating Hillary’s classified emails on State Dept. approval of CIA drone killings in Pakistan The FBI has been conducting a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information for months. An explosive new report reveals just what it is that the FBI is looking to: emails in which then-Secretary…
Press TV | 10 June 2016 An alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab forces has managed to cut off the Daesh terror group’s main supply route to Turkey after encircling the Syrian border town of Manbij. The Syrian Democrati Forces (SDF), a coalition of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, and Turkmen fighters, backed by the People’s…
Paul Joseph Watson | 10 June 2016 Secretive group positioning itself to profit from upcoming economic meltdown For the second time in the space of ten years, the powerful Bilderberg group is plotting to trigger a financial collapse, with elitists already positioning themselves to profit from the next economic meltdown. As we reported back in…
SCMP | 30 May 2016 Andy Xie says the world’s elite that are attending the G7, G20, Davos and other wasteful meetings are wrong to try to pin the blame for the turmoil on people’s psychology; all signs point to a prolonged period of global stagnation and instability. Before the current G7 meetings waste of…
The Intercept | 9 June 2016 I met a few of them in the town of Pibor last year. These battle-tested veterans had just completed two or three years of military service. They told me about the rigors of a soldier’s life, about toting AK-47s, about the circumstances that led them to take up arms. In…
Atlas Monitor | 11 June 2016 Two posts were published recently on the University of Auckland’s Political Studies department blog Pacific Outlier that illustrate the pseudo-liberal bias in academia and in particular the social sciences. The views expressed in the articles demonstrate the susceptibility to popular memes with presumably left-leaning scholars that manifest as political…
RT | 9 June 2016 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has admitted that his decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen from the organization’s blacklist came after threats from a number of countries. Human rights groups are urging him to backtrack on the decision. Ban said on Thursday that temporarily removing the coalition from the…
Colin Todhunter | 8 June 2016 The pro-GMO lobby often relies on fraud, regulatory delinquency, opaque practices, smear campaigns, dirty tricks, slick PR and the debasement of science. While choosing to sideline the root causes of poverty, hunger, malnutrition and regional food insecurity (and effective solutions), it promotes a techno quick-fix based on profitable proprietary technology. At the same time, prominent advocates of…
Eric Zuesse | 8 June 2016 According to a news report in the June 7th German Economic News (Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten, or DWN), headlined “Merkel entmachtet BND: USA kontrollieren Spionage in Deutschland” or “Merkel Ousts BND: US to Control German Espionage,” a new law will soon be passed in the German parliament and be approved by Chancellor Angela Merkel, which…