The world imperialism feels a potential need for presence in rival nations to make changes from inside despite there being all modern spying apparatuses. For this, the UK government, in particular, have been making social networks, training locals and picking up people in target countries and organizing Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to have much influence there by PressTV In the 21st […]
… contractor ordered to pay ‘$204k per month if blockade not lifted’ by RT Iceland’s Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site. The court upheld the decision that Valitor had unlawfully terminated its contract with WikiLeaks’ donation processor, […]
‘Welcome to the sweet abyss of an Orwellian vortex. 2013 increasingly looks like 1984’ by Pepe Escobar In two previous articles, for RT and for Asia Times Online I have looked into the superimposed levels of blowback implied by the Boston bombing. With still so many unanswered questions regarding what took place on the ground in Boston after the bombing, […]
By Garikai Chengu Just as there are good dictators and bad dictators in Washington’s eyes, there are also good terrorists and bad terrorists: Al Qaeda in Iraq, bad. Al Qaeda in Syria, good. Al Qaeda in Mali, bad. Al Qaeda in Libya, good, now bad. This hypocrisy manifests itself most acutely in how western media reports on the victims of […]
The British government has blocked the Anglo-Dutch oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell from paying its $2.3 billion debt to Iran to prevent a boost to the Iranian economy by PressTV While Shell has been trying for months to pay its debt to Iran without violating anti-Iranian sanctions, oil industry sources said the British government has blocked the payment […]
Waging war at home or abroad requires enemies. America creates them when none exist by Stephan Lendman Post-9/11, Muslims were targeted for political advantage. Post-Boston bombings, America’s war on Islam continues. Muslims are “war on terror” scapegoats. Washington’s Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia wars rage. It’s the wrong time to be Muslims in America. They’re persecuted for their […]
The “Chechen Connection”, Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings by Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research Editor’s Note Global Research will be publishing a series of articles and reports with a view to promoting “Boston Truth”. The underlying objective is to confront and challenge the official version of events concerning the Boston bombings as well as the twisted and convoluted […]
Marching in Lockstep with the Police State by John W. Whitehead “Of all the tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”—C.S. Lewis Caught up in the televised drama of a military-style manhunt for the suspects in the Boston Marathon explosion, most Americans fail to realize that the world around them has […]
Who’s Investigating the FBI Investigators? by Dave Lindorff I’m not a conspiracy-minded person, but something definitely stinks about this whole Boston Marathon bombing story. From what we’re reading about the case, the FBI had for two years been investigating Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old older brother killed during a shootout between police and the two brothers, Tamerlan and 19-year-old Dzhokhar. They […]
India up “For Sale” to Western Corporate Capital Giving the Thieves the Key to Your Home by Colin Todhunter Do you know that there is a country up for sale? Do you know that its finance, agriculture and retail sectors are being put ‘on the market’? Perhaps you are already aware of this due to various media reports. But then […]
The poet, lyricist and philosopher bard, Phil Rockstroh, made this unique observation (via Facebook) earlier today: An entire U.S. city is in lockdown due to the search for a solitary, nineteen year old suspect. Thirty different law enforcement agencies are involved. This is the sort of militarist overkill that is emblematic of a police state i.e., all sense of proportion is […]
25 Years Later, Edward S. Herman (co-author with Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent’) by TheRealNews Edward is an economist, a media analyst, a prolific author. For many years he was a professor at the Wharton School at Penn. Among his many books are Manufacturing Consent, also Corporate Control, Corporate Power, The Politics of Genocide. Transcript Twenty-five years ago, a book […]
