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Monsanto and the pesticide industry breathed a collective sigh of relief on 12 November 2015. The findings of an investigation into the toxicity of glyphosate by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and EU Member States were in stark contradiction
The current economic, political, and social situation in Venezuela is very complicated, which makes it somewhat difficult for outsiders to make sense of. On the one hand there are many people who defend the Bolivarian revolution, pointing to the successes …
(This posting is a select chapter from Andrew Korybko’s second book that will focus on the geopolitical application of Hybrid Wars.)
Southern Expansionism
During the final years of the Cold War, the Soviet Union and the US reached a …
“They have now announced that they’re going to put this in front of a grand jury…If you say ‘I’m going to put it in front of a grand jury’, that’s code language for ‘we’re going to use the grand jury …
Sheikh Raed Salah warns that outlawing of Islamic Movement is a prelude to wider assault on Palestinian rights
In the tangle of back streets in the city of Umm al-Fahm, the three-storey building that until recently housed the headquarters of …
Under sharp questioning by reporters at a daily press briefing on March 10, 2015 – one day after Barack Obama’s Executive Order against Venezuela – U.S. Department of State spokesperson Jen Psaki declared, “The goal of these sanctions is to …
Turkey is taking advantage of neighbors’ crises to loot resources from them, and the government’s ‘neo-Ottomanism’ policy has led to the brink of civil war, geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya told Sputnik.
The Turkish government’s links with Daesh, and looting …
The recent developments show significant changes in the strategy of the Western countries involved in the Syrian conflict. The US has sent ground forces, including special operations units, into the region. French Air Force has sharply increased the number of …
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On behalf of Matterhorn Asset Management, Lars Schall talked with one of the prime researchers when it comes to the People’s Republic of China gold policy; Dutch analyst Koos Jansen. They discuss the many tricky details that have to …
David Cameron has announced that at least one billion pounds from UK taxpayers will go to fund the ‘reconstruction’ of Syria after it has been pummeled by British bombs. The lunacy of pledging to rob the public purse to repair …
“Smart Weapons Systems”: Are we being Misguided about “Precision Strikes”?
By Chris Cole, December 05 2015
In the run up to the UK House of Commons vote on air strikes against ISIS in Syria, there has been much hype
President Abadi said the deployment, including tanks and artillery, is a ‘serious violation’ of Iraqi sovereignty
Iraq has called on Turkey to “immediately” withdraw forces, including tanks and artillery, it has deployed in the country’s north without Baghdad’s consent, the …
Multiple reports claim that Israel is the top purchaser of smuggled ISIS oil
ISIS oil is transported to Israel via Turkey, according to reports
Citing multiple sources, the Israeli business press are now reporting that Israel is the main recipient …
US experts are reconstructing and equipping a desolate airport special to carrying agricultural products in the region controlled by the Kurdish forces in Hasaka region, Northeastern Syria, to turn it into a military base.
The Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper reported on …
President Obama has displayed a stunning lack of sympathy for the Russian civilians killed in an ISIS plane bombing in Egypt and for two Russian military men slain as victims of U.S. weapons systems in Syria, putting insults toward President …
So what exactly have they been bombing?
Just over a month ago on Friday 23rd October 2015, The Express reported the following obliteration of an ‘ISIS held’ oil field by a Russian and American attack:
…The terrorists’ oil field in
The polls show it and commentators of all political stripes often cite the figures: Killer drone attacks by the U.S. military and the CIA in the Greater Middle East and Africa have strong U.S. public support.
According to the Pew …
SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence is offering an analysis of the assets and capabilities of the The Royal Australian Navy. Australia is a key ally in the Obama administration’s “Pivot to Asia” which is a term for the strategy aimed to …
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced today that they will put Monsanto MON (NYSE), a US-based transnational corporation, …
As more and more Chinese enterprises expand into Africa, there has been increasing interest in China’s economic activities in the continent. As well as positive feedback, there have also been some negative comments, with China having been accused of neo-colonialism, …
After being Chancellor for more than 10 years, Mrs. Merkel has finally achieved what she must have always dreamt of.
In 2002 she was one of the staunchest supporters of a US war in Iraq. In 2003 she penned an …
In the run up to the UK House of Commons vote on air strikes against ISIS in Syria, there has been much hype in the media about ‘precision strikes’. In particular a new British missile, the Brimstone, has been lauded …
In the last couple years US-NATO forces have intentionally pursued an aggressive path with a current trajectory leading humanity straight into World War III. In contrast to the West’s overt warmongering transgressions, the political, economic and military forces of …
Former US Defense Secretary Warns of “Possible Nuclear War with Russia”
By Stephen Lendman, December 04 2015
William Perry served as Clinton’s defense secretary from 1994 – 1997, is currently the Nuclear Risk Reduction and Preventive Defense Project co-director.
And now for the good news.
As the rest of the world eats denutrified, poisoned ‘food’ and capitulates to the criminal cartel of US agribusiness, as India destroys its soils with petrochemical-monocrop agriculture and looks to GMOs, as corrupt governments …
Baynazar Mohammad Nazar was a husband and a father of four — and a patient killed during the [US] attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz. This is his story.
In the first operating room, the surgical bed was empty …
The highest-level NSA whistleblower in history – William Binney – the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency, who served as the senior …
On Sunday, the NSA was forced to shut down its bulk collection of the phone records of Americans. While that program may have ended — and there is evidence that it may not have — the world now knows …
On Thursday, the Syrian Arab Army and its allies have resumed large-scale military operations against terrorists in the provinces of Damascus, Quneitra, Aleppo, Homs and Latakia. The pro-government sources’ reports said large groups of terrorists have been killed and injured …
Do you remember one reason Washington gave for invading Afghanistan in 2001? It was to liberate women. Watching pictures of ill-treated Afghan women, previously uncommitted Americans heartily joined the cry for war. (No possibility of doing that in Saudi Arabia. …
The Pentagon isn’t known for being frugal with its spending habits, and new reports have surfaced which show that US taxpayers footed the bill for nearly $150 million in luxury villa rentals and fine dining in Afghanistan.
When Pentagon personnel
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In a sentence buried at the very bottom of a story making headlines nationwide, Politico revealed for the first time one of the funders of Columbia University’s influential Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP).
The funder: ExxonMobil, the …
Saudi Arabia’s warplanes are targeting the Southern parts of the kingdom with cluster bombs in a bid to stop the Yemeni army and popular forces’ continued and rapid advance deep into their territories.
Saudi Arabia has used cluster bombs many
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On Monday November 30, the Chinese currency – the yuan – will join the dollar, euro, pound and yen as the world’s official reserve currencies, as recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Are we reaching the fabled new era …
“Was there a link to terror?”
That’s the question Americans are asking themselves the morning after a husband and wife opened fire with assault rifles killing 14 and wounding 21 at a San Bernardino County employee holiday party.
The shooters, …
The armed conflict in Syria could signal the start of WW3 if Berlin fails to coordinate its military operations with Russia in the long-troubled Arab country, a German MP warned on Thursday.
Sahra Wagenknecht, deputy chair of the German Die …
William Perry served as Clinton’s defense secretary from 1994 – 1997, is currently the Nuclear Risk Reduction and Preventive Defense Project co-director.
In an interview with Sputnik News, Perry warned about reckless US policy. Perry agrees in remarks delivered before …
This is the text of the open letter of Angela Kerrigan published in Evening Times
The British media has carefully twisted the meaning of Angela Kerrigan’s statement.
Dear David Cameron,
This is my beautiful daughter, she is almost three-years-old. I’m …
Ever since the Russians began dropping real bombs on real ISIS targets in Syria, the United States and NATO have been forced to engage in a two-sided propaganda campaign that swears opposition to ISIS while simultaneously doing everything it can …
“The Rally involving Yanis was immensely successful in moving the debate about austerity forward into a discussion about how we can not only oppose the attack on our welfare state, but as importantly, how we can create the society we …
The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that the Tel HaShomer Israeli Hospital sent them a bill, demanding the Palestinians to pay the expenses of the treatment of Ahmad Dawabsha, the only survivor of his family after Israeli terrorists firebombed their …
Since the Paris attack of 13 November 2015, which killed 130 people and injured hundreds of others, the headlines of the various news outlets and social media have been keeping analysts and experts busy examining this murderous act ─ and …
Russia’s defense ministry accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan [pictured left with US President Barack Obama] and his family of directly and personally benefiting from illegal oil smuggled through Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq — and Russia has …
The population of the United States and the world watched in horror as news of another mass shooting emerged Wednesday afternoon. A total of 14 people are confirmed dead and 21 injured in the massacre at the Inland Regional Center …
If you’ve been waiting to finally see Monsanto – one of the most hated companies in the world – to pay for its ecocide, knowing harm of human life, and devastation of our pollinators, then you won’t have to wait …
Normally, when a country is hit by an act of terrorism, there is universal sympathy even if the country has engaged in actions that may have made it a target of the terrorists. After 9/11, for instance, any discussion of …
Conservative Defence Secretary Michael Fallon authorised the first air strikes by RAF squadrons immediately following the vote by the British parliament in favour of bombing Syria.
MPs voted for air strikes at 10.30 pm Wednesday. By 11.30 pm two Tornado …
“If you are not confused, then you don’t understand the situation.”
Sir Alan Duncan, Dec 2, 2015 London.
It was a long session of debates – some 10 hours in all. There was little sane about this Commons session – …
You know the country has really gone to the dogs when Washington’s main allies in its war on Syria are the two biggest terrorist incubators on the planet. I’m talking about Saudi Arabia and Turkey, both of which are run …
On December 1, the Free Syrian Army’s central command agreed to a permanent ceasefire and evacuation for the remaining rebels inside of Al-Wa’er with the Governor of Homs – Talal Al-Barazi. The evacuation includes two phases:
• 1st is to …
Labour’s Pro-War Left: ‘Blairites’ Team-up with Cameron to Ram Through Syria Bombing Vote
By 21st Century Wire, December 03 2015
It was reminiscent of the eve of the Iraq War vote in 2003, when Tony Blair managed to scare
Geopolitical analyst Christoph Germann posted a very subtle, almost unnoticed link in his Twitter feed in the immediate aftermath of the ambush of Russia’s Su-24 near the Syrian-Turkish border by an alleged Turkish F-16.
It was a link to an …
In October 2012, the Global Research News Hour (GRNH) presented by Michael Welch was first aired on Winnipeg University Community Radio station CKUW 95.9FM.
Since that first broadcast, the program has been airing on several community radio stations across Canada …
To understand what is happening on the geopolitical global scene today, you have to understand what has been happening on that same scene for the last 100 years, because it hasn’t really changed much.The US Empire has been the world’s …
The Problem Isn’t Too Little Spying … It’s Too Much
Top security experts agree that mass surveillance is ineffective … and actually makes us MOREvulnerable to terrorism.
For example, the former head of the NSA’s global intelligence gathering …
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, on Saturday issued the following statement concerning Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian jet fighter on the Turkey-Syria border
It is imperative that American …
The risk of Syria becoming a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia became real last week when Turkey and Syrian jihadists used U.S.-supplied weaponry to shoot down a Russian warplane and rescue helicopter, killing two Russians, a danger that …
Britain is a longstanding US imperial partner, involved in virtually all its wars of aggression – four post-9/11. It’s been covertly bombing Syrian targets jointly with US warplanes since last year, along with Israel, France, Canada and Australia – on …
President Jacob Zuma [pictured left] is not a fool. He makes gaffes every week and has no idea what constitutionality means. But he is not a fool.
He might not read – as has been alleged – but that does …
More than a decade ago an incredible $100 billion worth of African debt was written off. The fractured political landscape in Africa at the time was, and the instability and extreme poverty it caused, was thought to be a result …
Ayman al-Sanabani beamed as he entered his family’s home on his wedding day. He was greeting his new bride, Gamila, who was in a bedroom surrounded by friends. Ayman sat beside her for several minutes, receiving warm words of congratulations.…
An active shooter situation is currently underway in the 1300 block of South Waterman Avenue in San Bernardino, California.
The shooting apparently took place at the Inland Regional Center, which is a facility that provides services for people who have
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On November 29, 1947, after Great Britain–the mandatory power in Palestine–had asked the United Nations to meet in a special session to discuss the “problem of Palestine,” the General Assembly passed Resolution 181 (II) to end the British mandate by …
It was reminiscent of the eve of the Iraq War vote in 2003, when Tony Blair managed to scare enough Labour members into backing an illegal war in the Middle East. A near replay of that scenario happened tonight in …
Why hasn’t the U.S. bombed the oil wells that ISIS controls into oblivion by now? Would you believe that it is because the Obama administration “didn’t want to do environmental damage”?
Former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell has …
41 people were killed and another 200 wounded in two suicide bombings that took place in Beirut on Nov. 12. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks, which targeted Burj al-Barajneh, a Shi’i neighborhood and Hezbollah stronghold.
130 people were killed …
“The European Union’s position is absolutely clear: Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are ‘illegal under international law, constitute an obstacle to peace and threaten to make a two state solution impossible’ yet this report shows how European policy …
Russia Insider reports that the ambush on the Russian U-24 bomber was guided by the US Airforce. In an interview with the Russian news agency Regnum, a Russian military expert said that “A US Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry …
During a brief state visit to Zimbabwe, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited “Wild Is Life,” a wildlife sanctuary that houses orphaned, rescued or specially protected animals on December 2.
Considering Xi’s tight schedule, such a non-political activity indicates that China …
The western press laments the near impossibility of defeating an organization that didn’t even exist a couple of short years ago. Brand ISIS, the unconquerable, may actually become a truism if the people of the western nations continue to listen …
Syria airstrikes: Cameron accuses Corbyn of being ‘terrorist sympathiser‘
David Cameron has appealed to Conservative MPs to give him an overall parliamentary majority in favour of military action in Syria by warning them against voting alongside “Jeremy Corbyn …
President Bashar al-Assad said that terrorists are coming from more than 100 countries around the world to Syria, they want to make Syria a hub for terrorism.
In an interview with the Czech TV, President al-Assad asserted that one cannot …
Homs was the third largest city in Syria (both size and population) before March 2011, but as the country drifted into a violent conflict, this provincial capital became the battleground for some of the bloodiest battles plaguing the civilian population.…
A blockade on indispensable fuel and other essentials imported from India now enters a third month. The crisis reached a new low last week when Indian troops reportedly crossed illegally into Nepal and shot at least four people.
Nepal’s diplomatic …
Imprisoned Al Qaeda Fighters Freed by U.S. Allies to Rejoin Fight Against Assad
By Eric Zuesse, December 02 2015
Some of the world’s top Al Qaeda operatives were freed from a Lebanese prison on Tuesday December 1st, to rejoin …
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