by Sara Starkey As a vegan of 30 plus years – for the very reasons that animals had to suffer for my palate – I read this story with great sorrow. Not just because the ewes and lambs are dying in this weather but that they are bred to die anyway. As the Farmers’ Union of Wales policy director says: […]
The UK tabloid media today did something no one thought possible: it actually got worse by Simon Wood (Originally published at The 99.99998271%) “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state” -Noam Chomsky The headline of today’s lead story in the Daily Mail Online: Vile product of Welfare UK: Man who bred 17 babies by […]
New documents show that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spied on peaceful Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters during the height of the anti-capitalist movement in the country by PressTV The documents released by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on Tuesday revealed that the DHS routinely spied on peaceful First Amendment activities and required daily briefing on […]
The US Defense Department has ratified the sale of advanced stealth fighter jets to South Korea amid escalation of war of words between Washington and Pyongyang by PressTV The Pentagon said on Wednesday it had notified Congress about the possible sales of new military hardware including two competing fighter jets — the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 stealth fighter or Boeing […]
132 companies pull out over $900mn in deposits by Russia Today One hundred and thirty-two companies reportedly had inside knowledge of Cyprus’ impending levy tax as they withdrew deposits worth US$916 million in the run-up to the bailout deal. The companies withdrew their savings in the two week period (between March 1 to March 15) leading up to the rescue […]
British Personnel Reveal Horrors of Secret US Base in Baghdad by Ian Cobain Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to […]
The Diabolical Bank “Bail-In” Proposal. Is the Cyprus Bank “Bail-in” a “dress rehearsal” for things to come? Is a “Savings Heist” in the European Union and North America envisaged which could result in the outright confiscation of bank deposits? by Prof Michel Chossudovsky In Cyprus, the entire payments system has been disrupted leading to the demise of the real economy. […]
Debt-serfdom and the dominance of Financial Power are two sides of the same coin by Charles Hugh-Smith Let’s be clear about three things: 1. Too Big to Fail financialization is the metastasizing cancer that has crippled democracy and capitalism. 2. Financialization feeds on expanding debt and cannot survive without it. 3. Debt is serfdom. I have covered this in depth for […]
New York City asks: What happened to the 1,116 missing 9/11 victims? by Dr. Kevin Barrett More than 11 years after the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center, New York City’s government is finally asking: What in the world could have happened to the missing 1,116 victims? In every building collapse in history, all of the victims’ bodies have been […]
One of the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command is located in a basement in central Damascus by Nadezhda Kevorkova All secrecy measures are there: one cannot drive through the area; hidden guerillas everywhere, and several dozen CCTV cameras. This is the Palestinian group whose headquarters and weapons were seized in December last […]
How Operation Enduring Freedom Mutated into Operation Enduring Corruption by Dilip Hiro Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible explanation of why American nation-building failed there. No wonder. To do so, the U.S. would […]
Under the title ‘Fallujah’s children’s ‘genetic damage’ that old war horse ‘literally’ of the BBC’s foreign propaganda service, John Simpson, manages not to mention the phrase ‘depleted uranium’ when allegedly reporting on the alarming rise in birth defects that include cancer, leukaemia and a horrific rise in child mortality since the US demolished the city of Fallujah in 2004 by […]
