The British government has launched a scaremongering campaign similar to what it did prior to joining U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to intervene in Syria militarily by PressTV In a letter to Members of Parliament (MPs), foreign secretary William Hague claimed that British nationals or residents who have flocked to Syria to join al-Qaeda insurgents there pose a direct […]
A wave of clashes between Iraqi security forces and Sunni Muslim protesters has resulted in the deaths of at least 53 people by RT Violence sparked as the military raided a protest camp in Hawija, near Kirkuk. Tuesday’s unrest has become the deadliest in Iraq since December, when thousands of Sunni Muslims started protesting against Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki […]
By RT NATO is a military union with no clear enemy to fight and with bills footed increasingly by a single member. As the alliance threatens North Korea and weighs a pullout of Afghanistan, some argue that it is past time for NATO to be dismantled. The initial purpose of the trans-Atlantic defense union was to prepare for war with […]
Since the assaults on Fallujah in 2004, the city has seen an astronomical rise in birth defects and abnormalities, including some too new to even have a proper medical name. VICE went back to Iraq to investigate.
$200 billion lost on fake message by RT A single hoax message sent via Twitter, the social media platform, erased billions of value from US stock markets on Tuesday, drawing attention to an electronic Trojan horse that hackers may manipulate with apparent ease. A picture may contain a thousand words, but a single fake tweet can blow a hole in […]
A Grand Display of NATO’s Lynch Mob Mentality by Dan Glazebrook Review of Maximilian Forte’s powerful new book, “Slouching Toward Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa” (now available to order from Global Research). This book presents a withering indictment of liberal humanitarianism and its collusion in imperialist designs on Africa, as seen in NATO’s Libya campaign of 2011. The […]
“This is a story about an extreme miscarriage of justice. It involves the CIA, the US Army and a shitload of cocaine.” by Liat Clark “If you want to, you can question anything to death,” says director Eric Stacey, his melodic Californian drawl coming slow and steady down the line. “But my point of view is, if enough people are writing […]
The United States is set to give the militants fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad up to USD 130 million in military supplies, officials say by PressTV A senior US State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Saturday that the US Secretary of State John Kerry will elaborate on the details of the US […]
The US military is deploying more forces to Jordan as part of a plan to dispatch 20,000 more soldiers there in a bid to invade Syria under the pretext of securing the country’s chemical weapon arsenals by PressTV The Pentagon is sending nearly 200 troops from the 1st Armored Division to establish a “small headquarters” near Jordan’s border with Syria […]
The Legacy of Thatcherism and the Iraq War by Jason Langley It is often said that power corrupts, and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. If a person or a group of people has the power to do as they wish without fear of having to answer for their actions in any meaningful manner, would they feel obligated to listen to […]
By Jacob G. Hornberger In my article last February entitled “Coming to a City Near You? Assassination and Sanction Blowback,” I wrote: But there is another point that Americans need to ponder. That point is that the U.S. government’s assassination program in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere and its sanctions program against Iran might well lead to “blowback” in the form […]
Western Imperialism Resorts to Medieval Barbarity by Finian Cunningham The human suffering in Syria, which has escalated from crisis to disaster over the past two years, is the nefarious work of Western governments and their regional allies. It is a simple, provable, glaringly obvious truth. Yet, the thought-control Western mainstream media manage to somehow turn reality on its head, and […]
