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Germany Provides Dolphin Class Submarines to Israeli, Armed with ICB Nuclear Missiles By Anthony Bellchambers, April 09 2015

Replacement of the Trident is a joke by UK politicians who have no idea of the actual position.

The fact is that Chancellor Merkel of Germany has already altered the balance of power in the Middle East and of Europe …

Haiti: Political Party KOD Rejects “U.S. Capitalists’ Rigged Elections”, Denounces Imperialists’ Project of Corrupt State By Haïti Liberté, April 09 2015

KOD is a Haitian political party founded in February 2014. The following declaration was read in Kreyòl by one of KOD’s leaders, Oxygène David, at the “Bar de l’air” in Port-au-Prince on Apr. 7, 2015.

 On the anniversary of the …

CIA Director: Iran Deal Good for America By Washington's Blog, April 09 2015

“Those That Say This Deal Provides a Pathway to Iran Developing a Nuclear Bomb Are Being Wholly Disingenuous”

CIA director John Brennan is a hawk …

As we noted in 2013, Brennan endorsed torture, assassination of unidentified strangers without due …

Ukraine “Disappears” Opponents of the Kiev Regime. Abductions of Independent Journalists By Eric Zuesse, April 09 2015

In Odessa — the same city where the Ukrainian civil war started on 2 May 2014 with a massacre of opponents that had been carefully planned by a team connected to the U.S. White House — there are reported to

US-Backed ”TechCamp” Color Revolution Revealed by Ukraine Official By Brandon Turbeville, April 09 2015

As NATO-backed protests were beginning to take off in Ukraine after then-president Viktor Yanukovich agreed to accept a financial deal with Russia as opposed to the greater integration/austerity package proposed by the European Union, evidence of US involvement in the …

“Muslims are Nazis”: Anti-Muslim Hitler Ads Plastered on Buses in Philadelphia By Josh Paniagua, April 09 2015

Philadelphia, PA — The ongoing wave of Islamophobia continues to leave its muddy footprints in American streets. Earlier in January, it was reported that 50 buses in San Francisco, CA had been plastered with anti-Islam ads from the American Freedom …

GMO Lies: Study Shows How Pesticide Use Soars with More GMO Crops By Christina Sarich, April 09 2015

Remember those flagrant claims that Big Biotech made, that genetically modified foods were a big reason why the world was enjoying food with less pesticide residues? Well, it turns out, those promises were like all the other biotech claims –

The War on Iraq: Remembering Bloody Tuesday, 12 Years On and No Justice By Dirk Adriaensens, April 09 2015

Tuesday 8 April 2003 was a dark day in Iraq for the many journalists who wanted to ensure that coverage from Baghdad would continue to reach the outside world.

Most journalists presumed they were relatively safe in their temporary offices …

Big Pharma’s Exorbitant Cancer Drug Prices Are Due to Corrupt Monopolies, Not Development Costs, Study Shows By J. D. Heyes, April 09 2015

Authors of a new report published online in Mayo Clinic Proceedings say that dramatically higher prices for cancer medications are beginning to have a negative effect on patient care in the U.S., as well as the American health care system …

Five Key Questions That Were Not Asked During the Trial of “Boston Bomber” Dzhokhar Tsarnaev By 21st Century Wire, April 09 2015

Jurors in the trial of 21 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are hoping to return a verdict on Wednesday, following weeks of testimony in the Boston Marathon bombing trial.

Tsarnaev faces either life in prison or the death penalty.

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Israel Has Spied On American Citizens for Decades By Washington's Blog, April 09 2015

One of Our Closest Allies Massively Spies On Us

The NSA considers Israel one of America’s top spying threats.  Israeli spying on America is so rampant that U.S. officials have labeled it “alarming, even terrifying”.

Israeli companies hoover

Four Misconceptions About the Lausanne Negotiations with Iran By Crimson Alter, April 09 2015

This article is translated from Russian

The negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program that were held all last week in Lausanne and the resulting joint action plan received such massive media coverage that we wanted to figure out – what exactly

Political Repression and Resistance in ‘Democratic Europe’ By Eric Draitser, April 09 2015

For all its rhetoric about “liberal democracy” and “freedom,” Europe has quietly become a hotbed of political repression. While some groups are allowed to express themselves openly – from fascists that praise Nazi collaborators of the World War II period,

Her Majesty’s Counter-Terrorism Act: British Children Arrested on Suspicion of “Preparing Acts of Terrorism” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 09 2015

In November 2014,  Britain’s Counter-Terrorism Bill was introduced in the House of Commons.  

Prime Minister Cameron announced  impending “new powers” and “very radical reforms” in relation to the alleged “jihadist” threats, These would also include provisions to strip UK citizens

Laos and China’s Grand strategy of an ASEAN “Silk Road” By Andrew Korybko, April 09 2015

Part I

The previous part provided an overview of Laos’ most important regional relations and described the key infrastructural projects it’s partaking in to boost its pivot credentials. In this concluding article, China’s specific containment-breaking strategies as related to Laos

Greece Demands €278 Billion World War II Reparations from Germany, More Than its Debt to EU By RT, April 09 2015

Image: A man searches for the names of victims written on a memorial plaque, on the eve of the 69th anniversary of the Distomo massacre committed by the Nazis during World War Two, at the village of Karakolithos near Distomo

‘There is no Alternative Unless We Build One’: Reinventing Socialist Politics By Ingo Schmidt, April 09 2015

The varied left histories dating back to the long 19th century gained momentum during the tumultuous first decades of the 20th century and for some time after. They came to an end, at one point or another, between the military

US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen By Stephen Lendman, April 09 2015

Washington planned war on Yemen months ago – preemptive naked aggression by any standard with Saudi-led proxies doing Obama’s dirty work.

Plus direct US involvement. Reports indicate one or more American warships shelled Yemeni targets. Israeli warplanes are involved.

Millions

Australia: Refugees in Indefinite Detention, Endless Incarceration By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 09 2015

“Australia is holding more than 30 people in indefinite detention for undisclosed reasons.  These people are recognised refugees who cannot return home due to the dangers they face there.” Remedy Australia, Petition

Daniel Flitton, senior correspondent for The Age,

Pentagon Prepares Romania For Conflict With Russia, NATO Consolidates Control Of Black Sea By Rick Rozoff, April 09 2015

We have compiled a number of  official documents by the US military and its NATO allies as well as press reports which shed light on US-NATO War preparations directed against Russia.  

These reports are for informational purposes only. 

 

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Somalia: Why Al-Shabaab Kills – The Role of the United States and its Ethiopian and Kenyan Allies By Margaret Kimberley, April 09 2015

The whole world knows of the horrors inflicted on Kenyan civilians by Somalia’s Al-Shabaab. But, the “corporate media tells Americans little if anything about Somalia’s road to ruin,” paved by the United States and its Ethiopian and Kenyan allies. “If

Is BRICS a Threat to the US Dollar; State Funded “Independent” Media By Global Research News, April 08 2015

Is the BRICS a real threat to the U.S. dollar?

Why is media funded by the Russian government called “state-controlled” but American state-funded media labelled “independent”?

What is really going behind the very public disagreements between Washington and Tel Aviv?…

Seed Laws that Criminalise Farmers: Resistance and Fightback By Grain, April 08 2015

Peasant seeds – the pillar of food production – are under attack everywhere. Under corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly limit what farmers can do with their seeds. Seed saving, which has been the basis of farming for thousands

Obama-Netanyahu Row: A Diversion from the Real Issues By Jonathan Cook, April 08 2015

For many months now, the western media has presented the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in terms of a new and deepening rift. Israel is supposedly positioned on one side of the divide and the US and Europeans on the other, trying as

Oceans in Crisis: One Woman Will Cross the Pacific to Raise Awareness By Dahr Jamail, April 08 2015

(Photo: Sonya Baumstein)

Sonya Baumstein has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, kayaked from Seattle to Juneau, and paddled across the Bering Strait.

But now she is in final preparations to become, at 29 years old, the first woman to row

Gambling on the Vaccine Market: Financial Reporting Company Makes it Easy to Profit from Worldwide Vaccine Sales By Ethan A. Huff, April 08 2015

Those looking to cash in on the multi-billion-dollar vaccine racket can now do so with the help of a financial reporting company that keeps tabs on the present and expected future growth of the vaccine market for investment purposes. Kind …

U.S. Mass Surveillance Began with the Establishment of the National Security State in 1947 By Kurt Nimmo, April 08 2015

According to a story appearing in USA Today, the current NSA surveillance of Americans is based on an earlier, pre-9/11 program used by the DEA.

For over two decades, the DEA and the Justice Department collected logs on every …

With Scores of Children Among Civilian Dead in Yemen, US Sending More Weapons By Lauren McCauley, April 08 2015

International aid groups estimate that more than 75 Yemeni children have been killed since the start of Operation Decisive Storm on March 26. (Photo: UNICEF)

Amid warnings that the Saudi-led attack on Yemen is taking a devastating toll on civilians,

Congressional / Israeli Determination to Block Iran Nuclear Deal By Stephen Lendman, April 08 2015

Bipartisan congressional hardliners, Israel and its Lobby intend going all-out to undermine a final deal on Iran’s known peaceful nuclear program.

On April 6, AIPAC manufactured what it called “significant concerns” about framework terms agreed on.

It claimed “(t)he emerging

Women Plan Walk Across the DMZ to Support Peace and Korean Unification By Ronda Hauben, April 08 2015

On March 11, women who are planning to cross the DMZ separating the two Koreas held a press conference at the United Nations. They explained that 30 women from around the world would hold a walk for peace in Korea

U.S. Propaganda 101: Illegally Invade Countries, Fund the Media, Call it “Independent” By Julie Lévesque, April 08 2015
In today's world, if you publish articles which criticize Western policies and contradict the one-sided Western media narrative, you are either a “conspiracy website” or a shadow propaganda outlet of the Kremlin or whoever is the enemy du jour.
CIA Rendition and Torture: Lithuania Prosecutors Reopen Probe into Secret CIA ‘Black Site’ By RT, April 08 2015

Lithuanian prosecutors have reportedly reopened a criminal investigation into claims that state security officials helped the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to operate a ‘black site’ in the Baltic country.

Senior prosecutor Irmantas Mikelionis has decided to restart the investigation …

Czech and Slovak Reservists Memorandum against NATO. “We Reject Fighting in NATO Ranks against Russia” By Global Research News, April 08 2015

Czechoslovak reserve forces against the war planned by NATO commanders

On January 19th 2015 the facebook group, which combines all members of the CSLA, PS, VMV, SNB in reserve or decommissioned, issued an important memorandum, which has become even more

Understanding the U.S.-Iran Agreement By Mazda Majidi, April 08 2015

Image: Iranians celebrate the nuclear agreement.

On April 2, the United States, Iran and other parties to the months-long negotiations announced an agreement on principles on Iran’s nuclear program. As planned, diplomats and technocrats from all sides are expected to

U.S. Counter-terrorism? Baseball Park Metal Detectors Fail to Set Off Journalists’ BS Detectors By Neil deMause, April 08 2015

The New York Times depicts the crowd in front of Yankee Stadium–but doesn’t investigate whether the security measures that caused the crowd make anyone more secure. (NYT photo: Ruth Fremson)

The opening of the baseball season this week brought …

The White House’s New Executive Order On Cyber Crime is (Unfortunately) No Joke By Nadia Kayyali and Kurt Opsahl, April 08 2015

On the morning of April 1st, the White House issued a new executive order (EO) that asserts that malicious “cyber-enabled activities” are a national threat, declares a national emergency, and establishes sanctions and other consequences for individuals and entities. While …

Latin American Countries Want to Close All US Military Bases in Their Borders By John Vibes, April 08 2015

UNASUR Secretary-General, and former Colombian president Ernesto Samper recently suggested that Latin American countries should begin to renegotiate the terms of their relationship with the United States government, and request that they close their military bases within these countries.

His …

Obama’s Wars Murder Noncombatant Men, Women and Children By Stephen Lendman, April 08 2015

In the 1960s, Vietnam war protesters chanted “Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?”

Obama way exceeds his ruthlessness – murdering and maiming noncombatants in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Donbass, Palestinians complicit with Israel and now Yemen.…

The Future of Israeli Politics By Haneul Na avi, April 08 2015

By Arthur Goodman and Haneul Na’avi

We analyze the future of Israeli politics with Arthur Goodman, the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Liaison for Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Europe’s largest Jewish voice against Zionism. We cover his history with the organization,

Netanyahu’s Now Failed Vision of Being Voted the 51st State of the Union by the Zionist Committee that Controls Congress By Anthony Bellchambers, April 08 2015

Mr Netanyahu, for all his political machinations and duplicitous manoeuvrings, has no long-term plan for Israel’s survival from the existential threat of five million indigenous Arabs of former Palestine where every single family has lost at least one member to

Music and Politics: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra Silences Ukrainian Musician Valentina Lisitsa By Olga Luzanova, April 08 2015

It is no secret that nowadays many alternative media activists face appalling state-sponsored censorship in many nominally free and democratic Western countries. Now it seems that such censorship has penetrated much deeper than we have come to expect. Art itself,

Ukrainian Government Condemns Russia’s Celebration of Victory Against Nazis By Eric Zuesse, April 08 2015

The Ukrainian Government said on April 7th that any country sending representatives to Russia’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of their victory against Adolf Hitler, will be blacklisted by Ukraine. That celebration will take place on May 9th.

According to …

All Terrorists are Muslims, Except for 94% to 99.6% of them By Global Research News, April 08 2015
US, Saudis Target Internet Access in Yemen By 21st Century Wire, April 08 2015

21st Century Wire says…

When any illegal war of aggression is taking place, it is essential to cut-off all communication routes to the rest of the world. 

In past wars of aggression, the US has first targeted TV stations and …

Containing Fukushima Is “Beyond Current Technology”. Worldwide Radiation is the Unspoken Consequence By Washington's Blog, April 08 2015

We reported in 2012 that top nuclear experts say that the technology doesn’t yet even exist to clean up Fukushima.

Now, the head of the Fukushima nuclear plant and the head of decommissioning at Fukushima both say that the technology

“The Negro Question”. Albert Einstein’s 1946 Statement on Racism and Civil Rights By Dr. Albert Einstein, April 08 2015

This text was written by Albert Einstein in 1946

I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more than ten years. And I am writing seriously and warningly. Many readers may ask: 

“What …

Civil Society, Environmentalists Firmly Opposed to Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, April 08 2015

The White House has published a handful of comments from “environmental groups” implying widespread support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and other corporate trade agreements. Yet these cherry-picked comments from some of the most conservative, corporate-funded environmental groups actually reveal the

The Connections Between Psychotropic Drugs and Irrational Acts of Violence By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, April 08 2015

“Even at normal doses, taking psychiatric drugs can produce suicidal thinking, violent behavior,  aggressiveness, extreme anger,  hostility, irritability, loss of ability to control impulses, rage reactions, hallucinations, mania, acute psychotic episodes, akathisia, and bizarre, grandiose, highly elaborated destructive plans, including

U.S. Government Tracked Billions of American Phone Calls “Before 9/11” By Washington's Blog, April 08 2015

Mass Surveillance Started Before 9/11

USA Today reports:

The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans’ international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a

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Poroshenko: ”Take Donbass”. Putin: ”Have you Gone Mad? I don’t Need Donbass. If you don’t Need it, Announce its Independence” By Global Research News, April 08 2015
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Self-styled Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed Vladimir Putin to ”include Donbass” in the territory of the Russian Federation, Forbes reported on 6 April. The offer was made during the Normandy Four

Ukraine’s Car-Production Plunges 96%; Many Banks Also Fail By Eric Zuesse, April 08 2015

On Tuesday April 7th, Ukravtoprome (the Ukrainian Association of Automobile Manufacturers) reported that, in the three-month period January-March 2015, as compared to the same three months of 2014, production of passenger cars plunged 96%, commercial vehicles 23%, buses 43%, for

Countering The Lies Of The Mainstream Media By Colin Todhunter, April 08 2015

The site you are reading this article on is part of the ‘alternative’ or ‘independent’ media. Many of these sites do not take advertising and are run on the basis of donations from readers. Many of the authors whose articles

The Iran Nuclear Energy Agreement: Force Again Prevails Over Law By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 08 2015

The Israel Lobby and its associated neocon war criminals will block if they can the nuclear energy agreement, worked out by Putin, Iran, and Obama, which has the promise of bringing to an end the US orchestrated crisis over Iran’s

Afghan Mission Accomplished: More Heroin for the World By Jon Rappoport, April 07 2015

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The Guardian reports statistics on opium agriculture in Afghanistan:

“…the US counternarcotics mission in Afghanistan stands out: opiate production has climbed steadily over recent years to reach record-high levels last year.”

“Far from eradicating the deep-rooted opiate trade,

Fukushima Disaster Caused at Least 1,232 Fatalities in 2014 as Radiation Death Rate Accelerates By David Gutierrez, April 07 2015

According to the most recent report, deaths in Japan attributable to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have continued to increase. Last year, the number of deaths increased by 18 percent over the year before.

A March 2011 earthquake and tsunami …

Utah Whooping Cough Outbreak (Pertussis) Only in Vaccinated Children By Global Research News, April 07 2015

An alarming outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) is currently sweeping through the Park City, Utah area. And the news is not good for the vaccine industry – as you’ll soon see.

This whooping cough outbreak marks the first time in …

Scientists Detect Fukushima Radiation on North American Shores – Humans Exposed through Seafood Consumption? By ENENews, April 07 2015

Statesman Journal, Apr 6, 2015: BREAKING NEWS Scientists detect Fukushima radiation on North American shores — Seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has reached North America… cesium-134 and cesium-137 in a sample of seawater taken in February from …

U.S. NGOs Kicked Out of Eritrea: Foreign Aid Is Meant To Cripple People By Ezili Dantò, April 07 2015

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki

Interview with President Isaias Afwerki:

“Anyone who takes aid is crippled. Aid is meant to cripple people… Governments in Africa and elsewhere are not allowed to write their own programs. And when it comes to …

Boycotting Israel More Urgent than in Case of South Africa, Says Anti-Apartheid Veteran By Adri Nieuwhof, April 07 2015

Farid Esack believes that the call to boycott Israel is a progressive one. (Meraj Chhaya/Flickr)

Farid Esack, an Islamic studies professor at the University of Johannesburg, has faced strong objections from the Zionist lobby in France over plans …

The Audit of Greece’s Debt: Is The Debt “Illegal” or “Illegitimate” By Eric Toussaint, April 07 2015

The Committee will audit the Greek debt in the coming months, aimed at finding out whether part of the Greek public debt is illegitimate, illegal, odious or unsustainable.

Without claiming to be exhaustive, one can propose the following definitions:

  1. Illegitimate
Bolivia’s Socialist Project and the Battle against Neoliberalism By Jeffery R. Webber, April 07 2015

In the open­ing salvos of Latin America’s uneven lurch to the Left in the early twenty-first cen­tury, Bolivia dis­tin­guished itself as the region’s most rad­i­cal socio-political ter­rain.[1] Left-indigenous move­ments in the coun­try­side and cityscapes alike threw the state into

Israel Caught Red-handed Aiding Al-Qaeda in Syria By 21st Century Wire, April 07 2015

21st Century Wire says…

What US and European media have been slow to figure out (or ignore), is how Israel is up to its neck in fueling the long dirty war next door in Syria.

Let’s be clear – once …

Israeli Army Admits Aiding Al-Qaeda in Syria By Asa Winstanley, April 07 2015

An under-noticed news report last week confirmed previously-held suspicions and strong implications that Israeli troops are aiding the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s official Syrian affiliate.

Speaking to Israeli occupation troops last week, a Wall Street Journal reporter on the ground in …

Airbus 320 Germanwings Crash: German Regulator ‘unaware’ of Andreas Lubitz’s Severe Depression By RT, April 07 2015

Lufthansa’s medical staff failed to inform German aviation authorities the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane, Andreas Lubitz, had severe depression, Welt am Sonntag reports.

The probe has shown that Lubitz regularly visited psychiatrists, and took antidepressants and tranquilizers to …

Sixty-Six Years of NATO.This is “Not a Peace Program, it is a War Program,” By Global Research and Global Research, April 07 2015

by Danielle Ryan

NATO was established 66 years ago on April 4, 1949.

About three and a half months later, on July 26, Senator Robert A. Taft, the son of President William Howard Taft, made a speech explaining why he …

Greeced Lightning! Will Greece Default? Will Athens Cut a Financial Deal with Moscow and Beijing? By Bill Holter, April 07 2015

We seem to have finally arrived at some sort of moment of truth regarding Greece and their inclusion in the EU.  The speculation is they will be out of money by April 9th, this Thursday, unable to make a less

President of Czech Republic Tells Washington, We are Not An American Protectorate By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, April 07 2015

As readers know, I have emphasized for years that European governments are regarded by Washington as vassals who behave according to Washington’s wishes. It has been 70 years–two or three generations–since former world powers, such as Great Britain and Germany

Islam Saved Jewry. A Historical Truth By Global Research News, April 07 2015

by David J Wasserstein

Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the

Re-opening the Investigation: CIA Black Sites, “Rendition” and Washington’s Allies By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, April 07 2015

They certainly sought to please in those initial dark days when a position at the NATO table was at stake.  This was something of a new world order – the attacks after September 11, 2001 did certainly allow Washington to

150 Years After the American Civil War: The Struggle Continues. The Demise of Slavery Remains Unfulfilled in the 21st Century By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 07 2015

Revolutionary promise of the demise of slavery remains unfulfilled in the 21st century.

Confederate army forces retreated from Richmond, Virginia in early April 1865 in the face of advancing Union troops many of whom were Africans.

Soon the Union forces …

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) in Palestine: Be Careful What You Wish For By Global Research News, April 07 2015

The following is the text of Kevin Jon Heller‘s presentation to a Justice in Conflict symposium on Palestine and the International Criminal Court (ICC). 

I want to start with a prediction, one I’ve made before and still subscribe to:

US Sponsored Kiev Regime Appoints Nazi Anti-Semite to Key Military Position By Stephen Lendman, April 07 2015

Overt Nazi Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh openly boasts about “fighting Jews and Russians till I die.” He’s a wanted man.

In July 2014, Interpol issued a warrant for his arrest for “public incitement to terrorist and extremist activities involving …

Saudi, GCC Imperialist Proxy War in Yemen Escalates By Abayomi Azikiwe, April 07 2015

Despite the daily airstrikes by Saudi Arabia since March 26, the Ansurallah fighters (Houthis) were able to seize the presidential palace in the southern city of Aden the following week.

Subsequent reports claim that the Houthis occupying the presidential palace …

Land Grab in Ukraine is Monsanto’s Backdoor to EU Agriculture. Spells Ruin for Europe’s Farmers By Oriental Review, April 07 2015

The quest for Ukraine’s legendary black earth is almost complete. To the dismay of French, Polish, German farmers, the multinational agricultural corporation Monsanto, as well as DuPont Pioneer and John Deere, have all lobbied for access to the largest agricultural

The Biggest Secret In History: False Flag Terror By Washington's Blog, April 07 2015

Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror

The age-old saying is true:

If we don’t learn history, we’re doomed to repeat it.

The single biggest historical secret which people haven’t yet learned is …

How America Became an Oligarchy By Ellen Brown, April 07 2015

The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. . . . You have owners.  — George Carlin, The American Dream

According to a new study from Princeton University, American …

The Life and Death of Vietnam War Veteran Jack Wheeler: A Good Man in an Evil World By Joachim Hagopian, April 07 2015

As a West Point graduate raised in the home state of history-rich Massachusetts, I was steeped in the glorious tradition of the Long Gray Line heralding this nation’s greatest military leaders. Knowing that since 1802 the US Military Academy has

Good-bye Dubai? Bombing Iran’s Nuclear Facilities would leave the Entire Gulf States Region virtually Uninhabitable By Wade Stone, April 07 2015
Iran’s Bushehr reactor output is 1000 megawatts, compared to Fukushima Daiichi’s largest reactor with an output of 784 megawatts, along with several uranium enrichment plants, all bombed to dust within a matter of days.
The Alternative To Long-Term Austerity: Less Work, Higher Wages, No Mere Utopian Dream By Alan Nasser, April 07 2015

“A spectre is haunting the treasuries and central banks of the West – the spectre of secular stagnation. What if there is no sustainable recovery of the economic slump of 2008-2013? What if the sources of economic growth have dried

War with Russia Now Much Likelier: Ukraine’s Leading Nazi Dimitri Yarosh Gets American Weapons and Support By Eric Zuesse, April 07 2015

News report from German Economic News, translated and with closing commentary by Eric Zuesse 

http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/04/06/ukraine-rechtsextremist-jarosch-wird-berater-der-armee-fuehrung/ 

Ukraine: right-wing extremist Jarosch is consultant to the Army leadership

German Economic News  |  Published: 06/04/15 00:00 clock

The Ukrainian army