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America’s Greatest Affliction: The Presstitute Media

When Gerald Celente branded the American media “presstitutes,” he got it right. The US print and TV media (and NPR) whore for Washington and the corporations. Reporting the real news is their last concern. The presstitutes are a Ministry of Propaganda and Coverup. This is true of the entire Western media, a collection of bought-and-paid-for whores by Paul Craig Roberts […]

What is Happening in Istanbul?

By Tarihinde Yayımlandı To my friends who live outside of Turkey: I am writing to let you know what is going on in Istanbul for the last five days. I personally have to write this because most of the media sources are shut down by the government and the word of mouth and the internet are the only ways left […]

Blood In the Streets

Turkey is entering its third day of violent protests as police have withdrawn from Taksim Square and allowed the mass protests to continue by Daniel Jackson Over 900 people have been arrested across Turkey for what the authorities called a security measure. The first photo below was taken from a CNN IReport that CNN themselves have not vetted. An RT […]

The Dissolution of the West

“The United States Is A Police State” Paul Craig Roberts. Video Interview with Paul Craig Roberts. From economic turmoil to social dissolution and cultural chaos, it can no longer be denied that the once-opulent West is on the brink of collapse. In his new book, respected economist and father of Reaganomics, Paul Craig Roberts, explores the roots of this crisis […]

The United States of Whatever

Ecocide and the Soul of a Nation by Phil Rockstroh The reality of and the outward toll inflicted by greenhouse gas engendered Climate Change is clearly evident (to all but the corrupt and devoutly ignorant) e.g. increasingly destructive and deadly tornadoes and hurricanes, destruction of marine life, severe droughts and rapacious wild fires—landscapes of death, scattered debris and shattered lives. […]

Turkey’s Erdogan Gets Taste of His Own Medicine?

After nearly a week of increasing public protests in Turkey, ostensibly over government plans to turn a last bit of green space in Istanbul into another shopping mall, matters became far more serious on Friday. Riot police descended on the protestors with various forms of tear gas (and possibly worse chemical and biological agents — raw sewage?) and water cannon, […]

Britain conspiring to kill any hopes of breakthrough in future Syria talks

British Foreign Secretary William Hague, whose country has a long hand in interfering in other countries’ internal affairs, is seeking to kill any hope of possible talks between Syrians even before they start by PressTV In a statement to parliament, Hague exposed a conspiracy in-the-making by telling MPs “there is a real risk that the Assad regime [the government of […]

UN lashes out at Britain’s human rights record

The UN’s torture watchdog has hit out at the British government for human rights abuses. In its harshest criticism yet of the British government, the panel warned that urgent action is needed for the country to meet international standards by RT The UN Committee against Torture focused on human rights abuses during the so-called war on terror and the mistreatment […]

John Perkins on Globalisation

For many years John Perkins claimed to have been working as something he defines to be like an “economic hit man in the world of international finance”; a function he performed by persuading Third World countries to take on large -scale public works projects. Today, we recognize that these types of projects, financed by the World Bank and International Monetary […]

Pipelineistan and the New Silk Road(s)

Ask Western elites – oh, those were the days, in the 17th century, when the rise of European sea powers led to the collapse of the caravan trade and the end of the Silk Road as Europe found a cheaper – and safer – way of trading between East and West.  By Pepe Escobar (Asia Times – Roving Eye) This […]