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Selected Articles: War and Globalization By Global Research News, February 16 2018

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Video: Israel Claims Half of Syrian Air Defenses Is Destroyed By South Front, February 16 2018

The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) captured the village of Qude from YPG/YPJ forces in the Afrin area. Separately, reports appeared that the TAF and the FSA had deployed additional troops and equipment west of

Washington Calls Upon Gulf State Sponsors of ISIS-Daesh to “Rebuild” Iraq By Tony Cartalucci, February 16 2018

Like a local mafia that breaks car windows by night and repairs them by day, the United States has enlisted its Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) partners – namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates – to “rebuild”

Neo-McCarthyite Hysteria at US Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing By Andre Damon, February 16 2018

Featured image: Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats

Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on “Global Threats and National Security” was an exercise in right-wing hysteria aimed at promoting the claim that all social opposition in the United States is the

Seventeen Killed in Mass Shooting at Florida High School By Barry Grey, February 16 2018

Seventeen people were killed and at least 14 more wounded Wednesday afternoon in the latest horrific school shooting in the United States. The tragedy unfolded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, located some 30 miles northwest of

Cyril Ramaphosa Inaugurated as South African President By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 16 2018

Featured image: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete at swearing in ceremony, Feb. 15, 2018

A transferal of power from former President Jacob Zuma to his Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken place amid jubilation

Preventing Gun Violence in America By William John Cox, February 16 2018

Of relevance to this week’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this article first published by Global Research in August 2015, addresses the issue of Gun Violence in America

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Gun Ownership in America: Laws in America Permit More Guns after Mass Shootings By Stephen Lendman, February 16 2018

Of relevance to this week’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this article first published by Global Research on November 9, 2017 addresses the issue of Gun Ownership in America

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How to End the “Gun Debate” Forever By Land Destroyer, February 16 2018

Of relevance to this week’s school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, this article first published by Global Research on June 2016 addresses the socioeconomic and cultural factors which trigger gun violence. 

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America’s Mass School Shooting Epidemic. The Story of the 1966 Austin “Clock Tower Sniper” By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, February 16 2018

This incisive analysis by Dr. Gary Kohls first published by Global research on August 5, 2016 is of particular relevance to an understanding of the recent Florida School Mass Shooting.

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It is a fact that 90% of America’s school

Ending the Reign of the Nuclear Monarchs By Stephen Beale, February 16 2018

Featured image: “Baker Shot”, part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear test by the United States at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Credit: U.S. Department of Defense/Public Domain.

Once again, nuclear Armageddon is just a push of the proverbial button away.

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Who is the Mastermind Behind Russiagate? By Mike Whitney, February 16 2018

The report (“The Dossier”) that claims that Donald Trump colluded with Russia, was paid for by the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign.

The company that claims that Russia hacked DNC computer servers, was paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton

Mass Shootings in America: A Historical Review By Global Research News, February 16 2018

Originally published by Global Research in 2013.

This infographic is of particular significance to an understanding of the recent Florida School Shooting. It provides a timeline of mass shootings in America since the early 1980s,

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In the Aftermath of the Connecticut School Tragedy: U.S. Must Revise the Laws on Gun Ownership By Kourosh Ziabari, February 16 2018

This week’s school shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, brings once again to forefront the issue of gun ownership in the US, which is the object of this December 2012 article focussing on the Newton,

New War in the Middle East? Washington Is Dancing to the Tune Being Played by Israel By Philip Giraldi, February 16 2018

How many Americans are aware that every two years the United States military engages in large scale exercises with the Israeli Defense Forces that simulate wars against Israel’s neighbors? Three thousand American soldiers are in Israel right now involved in

Israel, a Leading Tax Haven By Stephen Lendman, February 16 2018

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Countless trillions of dollars are stashed in scores of tax havens worldwide – black holes of hidden wealth, much of it ill-gotten.

Largely …

Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Refusal to Release Records on Pesticide Harms to Endangered Wildlife By Center For Biological Diversity, February 15 2018

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today for illegally withholding public records documenting the widespread harm to endangered species posed by chlorpyrifos and two other pesticides, diazinon and malathion.

In response to the Center’s June 2017 request …

Revealed: Internal Discussions Between Ministry of Defence and Regulators on Flying Predator Drones in UK By Chris Cole, February 15 2018

Details of discussions between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on plans to allow the RAF’s upgraded version of the US Predator drone to be flown within the UK have been released following a Freedom

Assange, Judge Arbuthnot and the Arrest Warrant By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 15 2018

Justice is an elastic concept.  Like other terms in law, it has room to expand and contract.  But one weakness burdens legal strictures that supposedly have an objective reality to them: power.  Power brutish, power as a spectral force, and

Fragmentation of the Labour Movement in Toronto’s Hotel Sector By Prof. Steven Tufts, February 15 2018

The intensity of the current conflict between UNITE HERE and its trusteeship of Local 75 and Unifor’s formation of a new local of hospitality workers (condemned by most of the labour movement as a raid) makes critical self-reflection and discussion

China and Russia Have Long Endured Massive Threats By Shane Quinn, February 15 2018

In April 1962, the Kennedy administration ordered nuclear missiles to be sent to Japan’s Okinawa Island. The weapons were directed at the People’s Republic of China, a nation the Americans had “lost” to Communism 13 years before.

President John F.

Trump’s Tax Cuts, Budget, Deficits…Trump’s Recession 2019? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, February 15 2018

“Lies and misrepresentation of facts have become the hallmark of American politics in recent years more than ever before. Not just lies of commission by Trump and his crew, but lies of omission by the mainstream media as well.

In …

Will Lebanon be the Next Energy War? By F. William Engdahl, February 15 2018
Like most conflicts there, it involves a fight for oil and gas. The new focus is a dispute between Israel and Lebanon over the demarcation of the Exclusive Economic Zone between the two countries. The prime actors at present, in addition to the governments of Israel and Lebanon include Russia, the Lebanese Hezbollah, Syria, Iran and the US in the shadows.
Who Is Burying the Olympic Movement and Why? By Oriental Review, February 15 2018

Featured image: A harsh critic of WADA and honorary member of the IOC Hein Verbruggen (1941-2017)

By the time the 2018 Winter Olympic Games opened in Pyeongchang last week, the masterminds behind the so-called Russian doping scandal had finally lost

Senator George Brandis, the Rule of Law and Populism in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 15 2018
Our Verdict: UK Assange Ruling Is Unlawful, and 100% Political By Patrick Henningsen, February 15 2018

Yesterday, a high court judge ruled to uphold a UK arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, consigning him to further limbo and little chance of justice.

While the details, twists and turns of this case are certainly important,

New Delhi’s US-Backed “Chinese Containment” Strategy in the Afro-Indian Ocean By Andrew Korybko, February 15 2018

India’s American-backed anti-Chinese “containment” strategy seeks to have New Delhi establish control over crucial nodes along the Sea Lines Of Communication (SLOC) in the Afro-Indian Ocean, but the country’s plans are being thwarted by China’s ingenuity in crafting asymmetrical workarounds

Corporate Giant Demands Crackdown on Independent and Alternative Internet Content, Call for Online Censorship By Will Morrow, February 15 2018

The drive to censor the Internet took another step this week with a public statement by Keith Weed, the chief marketing officer for the London-based multinational Unilever, threatening to withdraw advertising from social media platforms if they fail to suppress

Lifting of US Propaganda Ban Gives New Meaning to Old Song By Whitney Webb, February 15 2018

Though its ostensible purpose is to fund the U.S. military over a one year period, the National Defense Authorization Act, better known as the NDAA, has had numerous provisions tucked into it over the years that have targeted American civil

US Media Turn to ‘Superhero’ Pence to Combat Korean Olympic Peace Threat By Adam Johnson, February 15 2018

North Korea, like virtually every country on earth, is using the Olympics this week as an opportunity for political theater, and this has greatly upset many in US media. Ostensibly this is because North Korea, marching with South Korea in

British Foreign Policy in a Post-Brexit World: Business as Usual By Marcus Papadopoulos, February 14 2018

No one in either the Brexit camp or the Remain camp really knows what the UK economy will look like after Britain leaves the European Union, such is the immense uncertainty of the consequences surrounding the decision of the British

The Art of War: For Whom are the “Useless Wars” Useful For? By Manlio Dinucci, February 14 2018

The song that deservedly won the Sanremo Festival is accompanied by a videoclip. It shows dramatic scenes of war and attacks. Despite all this, life must go ahead “because everything goes beyond your useless wars”. Let’s try replacing the videoclip

A Russian Trump? By Israel Shamir, February 14 2018

Do you remember the terrible onslaught of the mainstream media on presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016? Dozens of revelations about his fake hair, pussy grabbing, tax avoidance and what not; dozens of public polls proving that the nation wanted

Trump Threatens China and South Korea: if it’s not Nuclear Saber-rattling – its Trade War by Beating Hot Air By Peter Koenig and Press TV, February 14 2018

According to a Feb 13, 2018 by AFP

“The US President Donald Trump threatened retaliatory action against two major Asian trading partners Tuesday, warning of sanctions against China while vowing to revise or scrap a free trade deal with South …

Selected Articles: Fake News, Massive Media Disinformation By Global Research News, February 14 2018

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President Trump’s Defense Budget and the New National Security Strategy By Andre Bermont, February 14 2018

In the early hours of Friday morning, the US Senate agreed to pass yet another controversial budget deal; this time spearheaded by the Trump administration. Despite the tirade from GOP Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, lecturing his fellow colleagues on

Never Give a Sucker… By Philip A Farruggio, February 14 2018

Kudos to the 1941 W.C Fields comedy film “Never Give a Sucker an Even Break” for the inspiration. Well, this certainly does fit with what is transpiring now in our Amerikan Empire. This writer lives in an area I have

Regime Change Fails: Is a Military Coup or Invasion of Venezuela Next? By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, February 14 2018

Speaking at his alma mater, the University of Texas, on February 1, Secretary of State Tillerson suggested a potential military coup in Venezuela.  Tillerson then visited allied Latin American countries urging regime change and more economic sanctions on Venezuela.

Tip-off Received on Al-Nusra, White Helmets Plotting Chemical Weapons Provocation in Syria – Moscow By RT News, February 14 2018

Russia’s Center for Reconciliation in Syria says it’s been warned that Jabhat Al-Nusra terrorists brought in chlorine containers to a local village, where they aimed to work with the White Helmets to stage “a provocation.”

Late on Monday, the center

Corporate Crime: Federal Penalties Imposed on Largest Corporations Plunged During Trump’s First Year By Good Jobs First, February 14 2018

Federal penalties imposed on the largest U.S. companies for all kinds of misconduct fell sharply during the first 12 months of the Trump administration, with combined fines and settlements dropping to a fraction of the levels seen during the Obama

“US Foreign Policy Is the Greatest Crime Since WWII,” Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark By Jay Janson, February 14 2018

This week, the present US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, during his trip to five Latin American nations, made headlines world wide when he made the following barely veiled threatening statement, “In the history of Venezuela and South American

Trump’s Neoliberal War Budget By Stephen Lendman, February 14 2018

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US Presidents propose budgets. Congress has appropriation authority.

Trump’s FY 2019 budget is all about benefiting Wall Street, the Pentagon, war-profiteers and other

North Korea and the Dangers of Nuclear War: Towards the Implementation of a Peace Project By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 14 2018
What distinguishes October 1962 to today's realities is that the leaders on both sides, namely JFK & Nikita Khrushchev were accutely aware of the dangers of nuclear annihilation. In contrast, Donald Trump is totally ignorant and misinformed: “We will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea”.
Who is Behind Fake News? The Brussels Terror Attacks: Fake Videos and Images. “The Man in the Hat” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, February 13 2018
The official story is that the attacks in both Paris and Brussels were ordered by the ISIS, which just so happens to be supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia in close liaison with Washington and NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Netanyahu’s “Operation Greater Israel”? Israel’s Intent to Wage War on Lebanon. By Hans Stehling, February 13 2018

Will this be the trigger, finally, for the active commencement of Operation Greater Israel that Netanyahu has been meticulously planning for the whole of his political career, and prior to his increasingly likely indictment on corruption charges as he is

U.S. Supports the Influx of ISIS Terrorists into Afghanistan. Massive U.S. Bombings Directed against the Taliban By Sami Karimi, February 13 2018

Afghanistan is now living under a precarious situation. Major shifts in US war plans are unfolding. The deadly suicide blasts of the last month in the capital Kabul that invoked international condemnation were followed by US-led retaliatory bombings of the

Russia’s Presidential Elections: What Is Behind Ksenia Sobchak’s Candidacy? By Clara Weiss, February 13 2018

Featured image: Sobchak at a demonstration in Moscow in May 2012 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

Last week, the Russian socialite and presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak spent three days in the US, talking to politicians and appearing at think tanks as part

Timeline: Israel’s Anti-Palestinian Laws Since 1948 By Middle East Monitor, February 13 2018

2006-Present

07 February 2018: Israel advances a plan to build a walkway though the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem to connect two settler residential compounds in the Palestinian At-Tur neighbourhood

07 February 2018: During a Knesset report on the …

The Nunes Memo: The U.S. Media’s Shoddy Defense of the Russiagate Investigation By Eric Zuesse, February 13 2018

An editorial in the February 2nd Washington Post headlined “The Nunes memo shows the opposite of what Trump hoped it would prove”, and its first argument was that “the memo reveals that there were preexisting [i.e., prior to the

BDS Movement Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize By Bjørnar Moxnes, February 13 2018

Norwegian parliamentarian Bjørnar Moxnes has officially nominated the BDS movement for Palestinian rights for a Nobel Peace Prize. He did so with the support of his party, the progressive Rødt (Red) Party, explaining why BDS “should be supported without reservation

The “Gig Economy”: Global Unemployment, Low Wages, Migration and the Future Workplace By Prof. Anthony A. Gabb, February 13 2018

The author tracks key economic forces that have resulted in technological innovations which have given birth to the gig economy that is threatening job security, the gigzombie who is the alienated worker in the gig economy, and misguided anger directed

Dangerous Delusions: Syria Isn’t Going to Liberate Palestine Anytime Soon nor Is Russia Turning Against “Israel” By Andrew Korybko, February 13 2018

A wave of hysteria has swept the Alt-Media Community following Syria’s downing of an “Israeli” jet, but for as much as people want to imagine that Damascus is on the cusp of liberating Palestine and that Moscow has turned against

The UK’s Hidden Hand in Julian Assange’s Detention By Jonathan Cook, February 13 2018

It now emerges that the last four years of Julian Assange’s effective imprisonment in the Ecuadorean embassy in London have been entirely unnecessary. In fact, they depended on a legal charade.

Behind the scenes, Sweden wanted to drop the

Do Financial Markets Still Exist? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Dave Kranzler, and Prof Michael Hudson, February 13 2018

For many decades the Federal Reserve has rigged the bond market by its purchases. And for about a century, central banks have set interest rates (mainly to stabilize their currency’s exchange rate) with collateral effects on securities prices. It appears

The Coming War on Lebanon: Israel, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Prepare “Long-Planned Middle East War” By Timothy Alexander Guzman, February 13 2018

This previously published article (December 2017) on Global Research reveals the well-calculated plan of the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia on inciting a “civil war” in Lebanon to defeat Hezbollah. 

Israel – seemingly leading the squad with the green signal

Fearing Peace: Olympic Diplomacy in Action By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 13 2018

Mike Pence was a man with a mission.  At stages through the opening parts of the Winter Olympics in South Korea, he looked like a man on a mission.  With diplomatic gestures flowering all around with weedy vigour in Pyeonchang,

Lauri Love, Hacking and Extradition By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 13 2018

“Horse-trading determines who goes to jail and for how long.  That is what plea bargaining is.  It is not some adjunct to the criminal justice system; it is the criminal justice system.”- US Supreme Court Justice Kennedy (2012)

The February

Selected Articles: The Never-Ending War in the Middle East By Global Research News, February 13 2018

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Video: Integrity in Journalism, The Legacy of Robert Parry, “You Tell the Truth, No Matter What” By Michael Welch, Robert Parry, Nat Parry, Ray McGovern, and John Pilger, February 12 2018

“To my mind, he exists now alongside I.F. Stone, Drew Pearson, George Seldes, Gary Webb, and others as seekers of truth at the steep price you seem to have to pay to follow your common sense and your integrity when

Another Unnecessary War: Israel is Planning to Launch a Military Operation against Lebanon By Prof. Idan Landau, February 12 2018

The writing is already on the wall: Israel will soon launch a military operation in Lebanon. Not a targeted attack on a weapons convoy or factory, but a simultaneous attack on Hezbollah’s missile production and launch sites. The operation will

Turkey-led Forces Suffer Hundreds Dead Since Start of Afrin Operation against Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria By Andrew Illingworth, February 12 2018

The Turkish Army and allied Free Syrian Army militias have suffered hundreds of dead among their combined ranks since kicking-off their offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria’s Afrin region just over three weeks ago.

According to war monitoring groups (many …

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Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments By Glenn Greenwald, February 12 2018

In September of last year, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constituted “incitement.” The meetings — called for and presided

US Terror Bombing: The City of Raqqa Transformed into Rubble, Phoney Pretext of Combating ISIS By Stephen Lendman, February 12 2018

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Raqqa was raped and destroyed, not liberated as falsely claimed.

Months of US-led terror-bombing turned most of the city to rubble – on

New NATO Headquarters Planned in Germany By Johannes Stern, February 12 2018

The Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) is to build a new NATO headquarters in Germany. According to information from the Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA), the member states of the military alliance have agreed in principle to accept an offer from German

Countering the Asia-Pacific Quad Military Alliance: China-Pakistan Relations By Ulson Gunnar, February 12 2018

The US recently included India in its shifting Asia Pacific policy, as part of its Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (often referred to as the “Quad”). The Quad also includes Australia and Japan along with the United States itself.

The nascent alliance …

An Exodus of “Jewish Settlers” from Palestine Is Inevitable By Rima Najjar, February 12 2018

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has come a long way in advocating for Palestinian rights. They now fully embrace the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, seeing it as the most effective method to effect change. JVP

Russia in the Crosshairs By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 12 2018

Defending the latest round of US/Israeli aggression against Syria, US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert struck a Hitlerian note when she blamed Syria and Iran for an act of overt Israeli aggression, saying “The United States . . . strongly

This Conservative Government Is Comparable to That of Anthony Eden in Its Machinations with Israel By Hans Stehling, February 12 2018

The National Health Service (NHS) purchases millions of pounds worth of Israeli-made generic drugs every year; our supermarket chains sell Medjool dates grown in the Occupied Jordan Valley and soon-to-be-married British couples buy Israeli-cut diamond rings, all this as Theresa

China’s Polar Silk Road Offers the West a Chance to Escape Post-Industrial Rot By Jonathon Ludwig, February 12 2018

“China, as a responsible major country, is ready to cooperate with all relevant parties to seize the historic opportunity in the development of the Arctic, to addresses the challenges brought by the changes in the region” –Chinese White Paper January

Canada’s Deep Systemic Racial Bias. Indigenous Rights By Jim Miles, February 12 2018

Featured image: Colten Boushie

The news was released tonight (Friday, February 09) at about 18:30h that the jury in the trial of a Canadian farmer near Battleford, Saskatchewan found him not guilty for the murder of a young native, Colten

Economic System Reform: Saving the Planet; Salvaging the Human Prospect By Robert Snefjella, February 12 2018

Economic systems include elements of design. Economic systems are not the progeny of happenstance, nor are they beyond our powers, like the sun and moon and stars above. And based on how things have worked out, nor are they the

Israel Claims Airstrikes on Damascus
US Declares Full Support to Israeli Airstrikes on Syria. Hezbollah Backs Damascus By South Front, February 12 2018

On February 9, Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway officially announced that the US supports the Israeli attack that targeted twelve positions of the Syrian Air Defense Forces and the Iranian forces in Syria. The Pentagon spokesman told reporters that the US fully

Selected Articles: Korean Reunification: Make Sports, Not War By Global Research News, February 12 2018

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What Does China’s ‘Ecological Civilization’ Mean for Humanity’s Future? By Jeremy Lent, February 11 2018
U.S. Marine Corps Sexual Violence on Okinawa By Jon Mitchell, February 11 2018
The Igorots, the Indigenous Peoples of the Northern Philippines Under the Faces of State Terrorism and Tyranny By Aldwin Quitasol, February 11 2018
Fabricated Reality: Lobbying for GMO Agriculture in India By Colin Todhunter, February 11 2018
Make Sports, Not War By Eric Margolis, February 11 2018

Considering that a nuclear conflict over North Korea appeared imminent in recent weeks, the winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea, is a most welcome distraction – and might even deter a major war on the peninsula.

The highlight of the …

Syria: Voices of Truth, Peace, and Justice By Mark Taliano, February 11 2018

Mainstream media messaging dictates much of what we think, hear, feel, say, and do.  It creates an engineered framework which excludes what the “Other”, those living in Imperial prey nations, think, hear, feel, say, and do. MSM demonizes them, and