In retrospect, Obama’s intervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged even by its own standards. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a democracy; it has devolved into a failed state. Violent deaths and other human rights abuses have increased severalfold. Rather than helping the United States combat terrorism, as Qaddafi did during…
February 10, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – Chief among the stated reasons the United States has decided to arbitrate the future of Ukraine for its citizens, is the grave danger Russia allegedly poses not only to Kiev, but to Europe and the rest of the world. This despite the fact that it was the…
October 23, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – The Washington Post would report that the United States military accidentally dropped by air at least one pallet of weapons and supplies that ended up in the hands of the so-called “Islamic State” or ISIS. While a combination of factors about this particular story appear suspicious, including…
DR. ASSAD’S DILEMMA AND NATO’S RIPENING WAR CRIMES AGAINST SYRIA AND THE KURDS~ Ziad Fadel Don’t let them pearlies fool you. These are the fangs of vipers. Dr. Assad faced a Morton’s Fork: let them bomb in Syria to kill ISIS terrorist sociopaths or condemn their aggression as outside the scope of U.N. mandated action. …
GR Editor’s Note The following article by professor Eric Waddell was first published by Global Research in December 2003 in the immediate wake of the invasion and occupation of Iraq by US and British forces, with a postscript added in 2007. The article provides an incisive historical perspective on America’s “long war” against humanity, which…
Washington’s pell-mell rush to the brink of war against the giants of Eurasia is awesome in its recklessness. “The feverish pace of the Asia pivot meant to encircle China is matched only by the plan to dispatch Russia economically – and ultimately, militarily.” Freedom Rider: America Brings Hell to Ukraine by BAR editor and senior…
A new study confirms the obvious: the will of the people carries no weight in the United States. Within the nation’s borders democracy is everywhere proclaimed but nowhere to be found. These truths we hold to be self-evident: “ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does in the United States.” by BAR…
Jose L. Gomez del Prado Private military and security companies (PMSC) are the modern reincarnation of a long lineage of private providers of physical force: corsairs, privateers and mercenaries. Mercenaries, which had practically disappeared during the XIXth and XXth centuries, reappeared in the 1960’s during the decolonization period operating mainly in Africa and Asia. Under…
John Kerry in Algeria, with cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Vish Sakthivel العربية March 28, 2014 Secretary Kerry’s visit comes amid Morocco’s efforts to expand its regional influence and an upcoming vote in Algeria. Next week, Secretary of State John Kerry will head to Rabat and Algiers to reconvene the Strategic Dialogues that were postponed…
58 world leaders took part in the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague on March 25 focusing on reducing the amount of dangerous nuclear material in the world that terrorists could use to make a nuclear weapon (highly enriched uranium and plutonium); improving the security of radioactive material (including low-enriched uranium) that can be used…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley The United States is a military superpower in economic decline. Consequently, its foreign policy resembles that of the mafia extortionist who “offers protection when it is in fact the only threat in the neighborhood.” Old bullies do not fade away; they must be confronted. “Who will insist…
By Dana Visalli Global Research, March 25, 2014 “When I was young I had not courage, but now I have courage.” Asra, a 12 year-old Afghan girl who lived in a refugee camp in Pakistan until she was 9 Afghanistan has been called ‘the worst place in the world to be a woman,’1because not only is the poverty…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley One of the reasons the U.S. government is such a danger to world peace, is U.S. “public acceptance and approval of nearly every crime committed by our government.” Americans pretend to believe in due process of law, but are quick to condemn to death any foreign leader…
Andrei AKULOV | 05.02.2014 The United States increases its pressure on Ukraine while preparing sanctions against it. It sends a high-level Foggy Bottom official to visit the country only a month after her previous visit. US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland is going to Kiev on Thursday, February 6. The event…
WASHINGTON — The United States’ top diplomat for European affairs appears to have been caught on tape saying “fuck the EU” in a leaked phone call with the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. The Kyiv Post, an English-language newspaper in Ukraine, published the tape on Thursday. The recording’s veracity has not been independently verified. The phone…
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 4 FEBRUARY 2014 FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL According to an interview broadcast by the Saudi-ownedAl-Arabiya news channel, prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal is the ruler of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). Prince Abdul Rahman al-Faisal, a graduate of Sandhurst military academy, is the brother of Foreign Affairs Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, and of Prince…
the Russian Parliament passed an anti-gay law that came as a surprise to much of the rest of the world. The statute, an amendment to the country’s Code of Administrative Offenses, bans “propaganda” regarding “nontraditional sexual relations among minors.” (In earlier versions of the bill, it was simply referred to as “homosexual propaganda.”) The bill’s…
. Posters with portraits of five Cubans jailed in the United States are dispayed in front of the Cuba’s Consulate during a demonstration in Sao Pablo, Brazil, on April 7, 2010 (AFP Photo/Nelson Almeida) Miami (AFP) – One of the so-called “Cuban Five” — intelligence agents convicted in a 2001 US spy case that…
by Edward S. Herman Desmond Tutu’s defense of the International Criminal Court ignores the ICC’s record as an annex of white imperial power. The former South African archbishop defends the ICC’s selective prosecution of Africans and those who anger the western powers. In truth, the “ICC may have black representatives, but it is not a…
SOURCE Under the radar from the prying eyes of the public, South Carolina made it legal to get rid of their homeless problem. The people were given a choice, FEMA Camps or jail. The irony of it all was this happened right at the 50th Anniversary of Civil Liberties in August. The bad part is…
Bio Michael Ratner is President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York and Chair of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin. He is currently a legal adviser to Wikileaks and Julian Assange. He and CCR brought the first case challenging the Guantanamo detentions and continue in their…
1. The warbonnet is a sacred religious item that a male plains native has earned. Each eagle feather represents an act of bravery or kindness. A man would earn an eagle feather when he has done something for his people, his tribe. This is a way to symbolize an honorable man without the use of…
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/04/the-rancid-myth-of-columbus/ What Happened to the Indigenous Race? The Rancid Myth of Columbus by RODOLFO ACUÑA When César Chávez was asked what he thought about the term la raza, he answered the question with a question, asking, what was wrong with the indigenous race? The word raza was popularized by José Vasconselos who in 1925 wrote an essay titled “La…
Dispatch From Catatumbo http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/15/capitalism-genocide-colombia/ Capitalism, Genocide & Colombia by DANIEL KOVALIK I just returned from Catatumbo, Colombia where thousands of peasants are waging a life-and-death struggle against the U.S.-backed Colombian military and its paramilitary allies. For over 60 days, the peasants have been demonstrating against the deplorable living conditions and economic circumstances in which they…
Experts on arms control policy, confirmed by multiple independent sources, indicate that Syria has been hit, in recent days, by at least four tactical nuclear weapons. In addition, a Syrian Army brigade suffered massive casualties from a Sarin gas attack. Not only are these attacks pushing the world to the brink of war but they…
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, July 30, 2013 – From the United States, the heart of the empire that imposes its laws on the entire planet, thousands of voices of the most scorned and forgotten people are now being raised to show millions of men and women what dignity really is. Chiapas is the…
If America launches a nuclear attack on China, the Chinese will strike back at American cities. This is an edited abridgement by Lasha Darkmoon of Professor Amitai Etzioni’s ground-breaking article in the Yale Journal of International affairs,Who Authorized Preparations for War with China? It is followed by extracts from Paul Craig Roberts’ impassioned response to the same article.…
http://www.addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=627 Joint Statement: Hunger strikes, force feeding and imprisonment Occupied Ramallah, 31 July 3013 – Following the growing international discourse surrounding hunger strikes and force-feeding of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, detainees in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp and California prisons, we the undersigned Palestinian and Israeli civil society organizations, express our…
You are welcome to share this song freely, to sing it,to make copies of it and pass it along, sample from it, rerecord it yourself, rearrange it, use any part of it you like with the intention of helping Leonard Peltier spend his remaining years outside of prison. Any other of use of…
Published on Jul 23, 2013 Snowden’s become a wanted man after showing the world just how much US security services watch people all over the world. The NSA’s stranglehold on digital data communications makes privacy seem like a thing of the past. RT’s Marina Portnaya tried to see if she could avoid Big Brother, while going…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Published: July 11, 2013 Justice Harry Blackmun surely would have confronted the case of Warren Lee Hill Jr. — whom the state of Georgia plans to execute Monday evening — by recalling perhaps his most famous dissent. “From this day forward,” he wrote in a 1994 Supreme Court case, “I no…
