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“The Syrian Crisis Can Be Solved” President Bashar Al-Assad’s Interview with the Russian Media By ITAR-TASS, March 30 2015

President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Russian media in which he hailed the Russian initiative for inter-Syrian dialogue as positive and denied any direct dialogue between Syria and the US, stressing that there has been no real change in

The Pentagon’s Vendetta against Former Afghanistan Prisoner of War Bowe Bergdahl By Patrick Martin, March 30 2015

The decision by the Pentagon to bring charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy against former Afghanistan prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl is vindictive and politically reactionary. Its purpose is to intimidate rank-and-file soldiers who, like Bergdahl, turn against

New York Times Publishes Call to Bomb Iran By Robert Parry, March 30 2015

If two major newspapers in, say, Russia published major articles openly advocating the unprovoked bombing of a country, say, Israel, the U.S. government and news media would be aflame with denunciations about “aggression,” “criminality,” “madness,” and “behavior not fitting the

Arab League Agrees to Formation of Regional Army as Yemen Assault Expands By Niles Williamson, March 30 2015

Egyptian military dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced at a meeting of the Arab League on Sunday that the organization had agreed in principle to the formation of a regional military force. A grouping of 22 countries in the Middle East

Canada: Anti-Terrorist Bill C-51 to Criminalize Thoughts of Indigenous Peoples By Pam Palmater, March 30 2015

Prof. Pam Palmater speaks at Toronto Day of Action against Bill C-51, March 14, 2015 | OFL

Pam Palmater is a Mi’kmaq lawyer, professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, a noted media commentator, activist and advocate for

Japan Faces 200-Year Wait for Fukushima Clean-Up — Technology to Decommission Melted-Down Reactors Does Not Exist By Global Research News, March 30 2015

The Times of London, Mar. 27, 2015 (emphasis added): Japan faces 200-year wait for Fukushima clean-up — The chief of the Fukushima nuclear power station has admitted that the technology needed to decommission three melted-down reactors does not exist,

2014 Deadliest Year for Palestinians Since 1967, UN Report Finds By Sarah Lazare, March 30 2015

People walk through the heavily-bombed Shujaiya area in eastern Gaza in July 2014 during a pause in attacks.  (Photo: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam via flickr/cc)

Palestinians suffered a dramatic increase in fatalities last year, with more killed by Israel in

Yemen and Syria – Two Different Rebellions, Two Different Stories, Same Belligerent West By Brandon Turbeville, March 30 2015

As al-Qaeda forces seize power over the city of Idlib in Syria and begin to install a reign of Sharia terror on what is left of the population that was unable to evacuate, bombs rain down upon Houthi rebels in …

US-Sponsored Slow-Motion Genocide in Yemen By Stephen Lendman, March 30 2015

Bush and Obama administrations murdered Yemenis for years – through drone terror-bombings and internal subversion killing mostly civilians. Yemen is the region’s poorest country. 

Before leaving to participate in Iranian nuclear talks in Lausanne on Sunday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey …

The Federal Reserve’s “Financial Airplane”. The Fed’s Economic “Assumptions”, “Falsified Data to Portray Growth” By Bill Holter, March 30 2015

After last week’s air tragedy, maybe a poor thought process but please stay with me. 

Would you ever get on an airplane if there was no pilot? 

Would you be confident of reaching your destination safely?  Of course not. 

Whether

Africa and China’s 21st Century “Maritime Silk Road” By Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim, March 30 2015

This paper considers Africa’s place in China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. The Maritime Silk Road is a major component of the “Belt and Road” development framework announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in late 2013. While the People’s Republic

A Middle East Holocaust By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 30 2015

Foundations and corporations do not support truth-tellers. American foundations underwrite war and US imperialism. Foundations support subversion of countries that are not Washington’s puppet states. Your website has no foundation support, no corporate support; it only has your support.

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Former Monsanto Employee Fired from Major Scientific Journal’s Editor Position By Christina Sarich, March 30 2015

Ex-Monsanto employee Richard Goodman has been removed from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology. Goodman was appointed Associate Editor shortly before the Seralini study was retracted by the journal. Former Editor-in-Chief, A. Wallace Hayes …

Lawmakers Declare Vaccines Essential to ‘National Security’ After Taking Money from Big Pharma By Ethan A. Huff, March 30 2015

Like clockwork, the Disneyland measles false flag has predictably evolved into a national call for medical fascism, as politicians from both sides of the aisle unequivocally throw their support behind the jab agenda, which is right now pushing to eliminate …

Australia To Start Taxing Bank Deposits By Zero Hedge, March 30 2015

Up until now, the world’s descent into the NIRPy twilight of fiat currency was a function of failing monetary policy around the globe as central bank after desperate central bank implemented negative and even more negative (in the case of …

Brazil: Economic Policy, The Protest Movement and the Débâcle of the Workers’ Party (PT) By Alfredo Saad-Filho, March 30 2015

Hundreds of thousands of chiefly white middle class protesters took to the streets in Brazil on 15 March in an organized upsurge of hatred against the federal administration led by President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores,

Monsanto’s Cancer Causing Glyphosate: The Contamination of Land, Water, Air and Food By Institute of Science in Society, March 30 2015

Institute of Science in Society Special Report

November 10, 2012

Glyphosate has contaminated land, water, air, and our food supply; the maximum permitted levels are set to rise by100-150 times in the European Union if Monsanto gets its way as

The Politics of Surviving Guantánamo By Global Research News, March 30 2015

Mohamedou Ould Slahi is one of 780 detainees imprisoned in Guantánamo.  Jailed since 2002, he fiercely maintains his innocence of any wrongdoing. To date, the U.S. has not charged him with any crime.

Many Guantánamo prisoners were taken into custody

The “Greening” of China’s Black Electric Power System By John A. Mathews and Hao Tan, March 30 2015
 While China’s energy system is still largely a “black” system depending on fossil fuel inputs, the electric power system is greening at the margins. We demonstrate, using 2014 data on additions to China’s electric power system, that the system is
Both Israel and Iran Should Subscribe to a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ) By Anthony Bellchambers, March 30 2015

The Sunday Times yesterday reported that fears are intensifying of a new nuclear arms race in the Middle East. However, it failed to mention that to designate the Middle East including both Iran and Israel as a Nuclear Weapons Free …

Flashback to March 29, 2011: Over 6 million people marched across Syria in support of President al-Assad By Cem Ertür, March 30 2015

Huge demonstrations in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were held across Syria two weeks after the launch of the NATO-led covert war on Syria on March 16, 2011.

It is worth bearing in mind that back then the overall

The Geopolitics Behind the War in Yemen: The Start of a New Front against Iran By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, March 29 2015
The Houthi takeover of Sana took place in the same timeframe as a series of successes or regional victories for Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and the Resistance Bloc that they and other local actors form collectively.
Obama’s Up-Side-Down “War on Terrorism”: US Warplanes Strike Iraqi Popular Forces Fighting ISIS By Fars News Agency, March 29 2015

The US fighter jets once again struck the positions of Iraq’s popular forces during their fierce clashes with ISIL terrorists near Tikrit, injuring a number of fighters.

The US and coalition forces conducted eight airstrikes near Tikrit, but they hit

Rigged Trade Agreements and Rigged Government. “Secret Sections” of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Revealed By Kevin Zeese, March 29 2015

Note: We are still hoping that Senator Wyden will listen to the people and not his big money donors. He should announce now that he will not be supporting any fast track trade authority legislation. The three treaties being negotiated

The CO2 Crisis: The Social Costs Of Capitalism Are Destroying Earth’s Ability To Support Life By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 29 2015

I admire David Ray Griffin for his wide-ranging intelligence, his research skills, and for his courage.  Dr. Griffin is not afraid to take on the controversial topics.  He gave us ten books on 9/11, and anyone who has read half

“Democracy” versus “The Institutional Ideology” of the CIA. Conversation With CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou By Douglas Valentine, March 29 2015

John Kiriakou is widely known as the former CIA case officer who, in an interview with ABC News in late 2007, confirmed that the CIA had tortured prisoner Abu Zubaydah, an alleged member of al Qaeda, on the waterboard.

Kiriakou …

ASEAN’s Geopolitical Arrangement Vis-à-vis The Chinese Containment Coalition By Andrew Korybko, March 29 2015

The regional grouping of Southeast Asian states has catapulted to the forefront of global economics, becoming one of the fastest growing blocs in the world. Its economies have stabilized after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, and have since then

Macedonia: Scenario of A Ukraine Style Protest Movement and Coup d’Etat? By Global Research News, March 29 2015

Additional details from the investigation over Zoran Verusevski, the former head of Macedonia UBK State Security agency, reveal that he was discussing the possibility of a Ukrainian style protests that would bring down the Government in Macedonia and bring the

Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign Is Now Effectively Over. Wall Street Warns Democrats Not to Choose Senator Elizabeth Warren By Eric Zuesse, March 29 2015

Hillary Clinton’s unannounced campaign for the U.S. Presidency has already failed. Her arrogance (or else stupidity) in having wiped clean the hard drive of the private server she had used for her emails while she was the U.S. Secretary of

U.S. Pays Most for Healthcare of Any Industrialized Nation … But Ranks Worst for Healthcare By Washington's Blog, March 29 2015

According to Some Metrics …

The Commonwealth Fund reported last year:

The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on

Impasse of Greece Debt Negotiations with Troika, Economic Support from Russia and China? By Asad Ismi, March 29 2015

In a stunning victory on January 25, the leftist Syriza party won Greece’s national elections by a wide margin, earning just short of a majority of seats in parliament. Syriza campaigned on a promise to end the austerity measures (privatization,

The Netanyahu Victory. Is there a Path to a Just Peace? By Michael Welch, Prof. James Petras, and Jeff Halper, March 29 2015

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Divisions within the Kiev Regime, the Role of Ukrainian Oligarch Kolomoysky. Report By Eric Zuesse, March 29 2015

The Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung reported Thursday the 26th, that the Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, whom Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko recently removed from control over Ukraine’s monopoly oil-transport firm and from being governor of a Ukrainian province, had been using

Israeli Fighter Jets Join Saudi Arabia in War on Yemen By Fars News Agency, March 29 2015

Israel’s fighter jets have taken part in the Thursday Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen, sources in Sanaa disclosed on Friday.

“This is for the first time that the Zionists are conducting a joint operation in coalition with Arabs,” Secretary General of …

Ancient Syria and Mesopotamia, Cradle of Civilization. From Ancient to Modern Mashriq By Dr. Ali Kadri, March 29 2015

The earliest places to develop into sedentary cultures were to be found in the present-day Mashriq (Ancient Syria and Mesopotamia) pursuant to the early agricultural revolution. The crevice at the end of the Great African rift known as the Fertile

Why Monsanto’s Glyphosate Herbicide Should be Banned. Does it Cause Cancer? By Colin Todhunter, March 29 2015

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Monsanto. The company agreed to pay $600,000 in fines for not reporting hundreds of uncontrolled releases of toxic chemicals at its eastern Idaho phosphate plant. It also paid out a string of

“Unholy Alliance” between Saudi Arabia and Israel. A US-Iran Nuclear Deal Would Trigger Regional Political Re-alignments By Salman Rafi Sheikh, March 29 2015

Any probable nuclear deal between the United States of America and Iran is likely to result in giving a new trajectory to their bi-lateral relations; however, it is not the US-Iran relations alone that would enter a new phase of

Monsanto: A “Sustainable Agriculture” Company? By Dr. Joseph Mercola, March 29 2015

Monsanto, leading the pack of chemical technology companies that have infiltrated the seed business with their patented genetically engineered (GE) seeds, has spent many years trying to rehabilitate its reputation as a producer of toxic chemicals responsible for death

NSA Spy Agency Behind “Malware” Infection of Computer Hardware Used by “Enemies” of the U.S.? By Ulson Gunnar, March 29 2015

 The NSA’s “Equation Group” is apparently behind the infection with malware of hard drive firmware on computers used by nations considered “enemies” by the United States. The installation of the malware is believed to have required access to trade secrets

France Must Pay Restitution to Haiti: President François Hollande’s Forthcoming State Visit To Haiti By Jean Saint-Vil, March 29 2015

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

How The “French Republic” Stole Haiti’s Breast Milk…

In 1825, French ruler King Charles X offered to recognize Haiti’s independence on the condition that the new Black Republic pays 150 million gold francs in ransom. The extorted bounty …

Germanwings Flight 9525: Depression, Motivation and the Language of Terrorism By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 29 2015

The language of supposedly rational classification and categorisation has done terrible things. In the desperate need to find links, corollaries, causation, or simply correlations, we package, box and categorise like addicts in search of fixes.  And when it comes to

US Attacks “Closest Ally” UK For “Constant Accommodation” With China By Zero Hedge, March 29 2015

On the heels of a diplomatic spat between Hanoi and Washington regarding Russia’s use of a former US air base in Vietnam to refuel nuclear-capable bombers on the way to conducting “provocative” runs in the Pacific, we get yet another,

“Economic Genocide”: Ukraine Cuts off Payment of Pensions to One Million Senior Citizens in Donbass By Global Research News, March 29 2015

by Konstantin Dolgov

Ukraine wants to improve the state of its economy at the expense of a million of lives of the retired people in Donbass.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 by the UN General Assembly …

Israel Welcomes Complicit Amnesty International Report: Palestinian “Armed Groups” Allegedly “Guilty of War Crimes” By Timothy Alexander Guzman, March 29 2015

Amnesty International (AI) is at it again. The Western-based human rights organization says the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance against Israeli aggression has committed war crimes against Israeli and Palestinian citizens alike. The timing could not be more perfect

Rolling Bombs: Crude-Oil Rail Tankers Threaten U.S. Canada Populations, Environment By Mary Papenfuss, March 29 2015

This article was originally published by WhoWhatWhy

Choking black smoke roiled the skies of the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic the summer of 2013 as orange flames shot from pierced oil tankers in the biggest Canadian rail disaster since 1867.

Germany Accuses NATO of “Dangerous Propaganda”. America’s Strategic Objective is to Prevent a German-Russian Alliance By Dr. Daniele Ganser, March 29 2015

This article originally appeared at NachDenkSeiten. Translated for RI by Mihajlo Doknic

The German Chancellery has accused NATO chief Philip M. Breedlove of “dangerous propaganda”. The question: what to think about this critique coming from a government that uses

The Money Trail: How the US Fostered Yemen’s Separatist Movement By Sputnik, March 29 2015

As Saudi Arabia and its allies have begun the bombing campaign against Yemen, in the south, a separatist movement calling for a “State of South Arabia” is emerging. Fostered by the US, it will leave the Houthis with two hostile

Fukushima: Uranium and Plutonium Contamination of Large Areas of Oceans, Ground-water, Soils. By Edmondo Burr, March 29 2015

Scientists have raised concern over the rate of radioactive contamination of the Pacific, due to the Fukushima nuclear accident.

  • Expert : Plutonium-241 from Fukushima nearly 70,000 times more than atomic bomb fallout in Japan.
  • Officials : Molten fuel now ‘particle-like’,
Saudi Invasion: Yemeni Forces Arrest 40 Saudi Military Men By Fars News Agency, March 29 2015

“The fighters of the Yemeni Ansarullah and popular committees held, at least, 40 Saudi military personnel as captive in heavy clashes in Razeh district of Al-Tawila region,” informed sources told FNA on Friday.

Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes against Yemen early …

Invading Yemen: Criminality in Support of Hegemony By Ajamu Baraka, March 29 2015

Wednesday evening Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States announced that Saudi Arabia had commenced military operations against the Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement in Yemen. The Saudi intervention was not unexpected. Over the last few weeks

Looking Back at the Vietnam War By Andy Piascik, March 28 2015

This Spring marks 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War. At least that’s what it’s called in the United States, the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, it’s called the American War to distinguish the phase involving the United States

Four Years of Syrian Resistance to Imperialist Takeover By Sara Flounders, March 28 2015

By Sara Flounders and Lamont Lilly

U.S. efforts to overturn the government of Syria have now extended into a fifth year. It is increasingly clear that thousands of predictions reported in the corporate media by Western politicians, think tanks, diplomats

Drought in São Paulo: Brazil’s Megacity on Verge of Crisis as Water Rationing, Shutoffs Continue By William Hawes, March 28 2015

The past three months have seen the driest winter in 84 years in southeastern Brazil. Water shortages are now critical in São Paulo, home to twenty million people. The city’s primary reservoir is fluctuating between 6-13% of capacity, and officials

Canada’s Strikes against Syria. Violating International Law: The Canadian Recipe Against ISIS By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 28 2015

How is it possible to expand something that is, by definition, immeasurable?  Such length of string arguments are bound to dog Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s opinion that the air campaign against ISIS needs expansion, lengthening, and deepening.  “ISIL has

Why Latin America Rejects US Military Presence By Joachim Hagopian, March 28 2015

Ever since the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 the United States has claimed territorial rights to the Western Hemisphere, essentially warning the rest of the world to back off from USA’s backyard. The American way of proclaiming itself the big cheese

Week in Review: US Guiding Airstrikes against Syrian Government and Clinton Foundation’s Ties to Ukrainian Oligarch By Global Research and Global Research, March 27 2015
“Manufacturing Dissent” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 27 2015

Professor Michel Chossudovsky is the author of many important books. His latest is The Globalization of War: America’s Long War Against Humanity. Chossudovsky shows that Washington has globalized war while the US president is presented as a global peace-maker, complete

King Richard III, The last Plantagenet King, will once again be Laid to Rest By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 27 2015

“But it’s all vanity, all vanity.  This is truly the theatre of the absurd.” – Rev. David H. Clark, The Leicester Mercury, Mar 20, 2015

The things bones can do to people. In the case of Richard III, his remains …

U.S. Government Secrecy At All-Time High. “Secret Witnesses” and “Secret Evidence” To Prosecute Americans By Washington's Blog, March 27 2015

The Sunlight is Fading … and America Is Falling Into Darkness

US Supreme Court Justice Brandeis said:

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants;

Ukraine Negotiates Creating New Neo-Nazi Division In Army, 1,000 U.S. Soldiers In Ground Operations In Eastern Europe By Global Research News, March 27 2015

Ukraine Negotiates Creating New Neo-Nazi Division In Army

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March 27, 2015

Right Sector negotiates joining Ukrainian Army as independent division under Yarosh command

The volunteer battalion Right Sector is ready to join the Ukrainian Army as a separate division

The $160 Billion Cost: Why Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych Spurned EU’s Offer, on 20 Nov. 2013 By Eric Zuesse, March 27 2015

“Burying the lede” is a way that ‘news’ professionals hide or “bury” things while ‘reporting’ on them; and the biggest example of this in modern times occurred when Germany’s Spiegel (Mirror) magazine headlined its cover-story on 24 November 2014, “Summit

US-Saudi Blitz into Yemen: Naked Aggression, Absolute Desperation By Tony Cartalucci, March 27 2015

The “proxy war” model the US has been employing throughout the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and even in parts of Asia appears to have failed yet again, this time in the Persian Gulf state of Yemen.

Overcoming the US-Saudi backed …

US Congress urges President Obama to Provide Ukraine with More Weapons, Encourages Torture By Oriental Review, March 27 2015

On Monday March 23, the US House of Representatives adopted H. Res. 162 urging president Obama “to provide Ukraine with military assistance” in dire attempt to reignite conflict in the East of Ukraine, mainly frozen as a result of February

The Objective of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. is the Invasion and Occupation of Yemen By Alalam, March 27 2015

Houthis leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi on Thursday accused the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel of launching a campaign aimed at invading and occupying Yemen.

This move that created a huge turn of events, and to be honest caused a humiliating

“Proof that Russia and Iran Want War”: Look How Close They Put Their Countries To Our Military Bases! By Washington's Blog, March 27 2015

Proof!

Bad people are putting their countries closer and closer to our military bases:

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Look how close Russia put its country to our military bases:

Credit: Small People Against Big Government

Iran is just as bad:

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This proves that Russia

Costa Rican Ambassador Fired for Defending Venezuelan Government Amid Escalating Media War By Lucas Koerner, March 27 2015

Federico Picado, a Costa Rican diplomat, was fired from his post as ambassador to Venezuela after praising Venezuelan democratic practices in an interview. (archives/Ultimas Noticias)

Caracas – The Costa Rican government fired its recently appointed ambassador to Venezuela yesterday after …

Why is the American Federation of Teachers Promoting Israeli Apartheid? By Ali Abunimah, March 27 2015

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten led a propaganda tour to Israel and uses her union to push J Street’s anti-Palestinian-rights agenda. (Flickr)

The Israel lobby group J Street has just wrapped up its annual conference in …

Amnesty: Gaza Firing of Indiscriminate Rockets is War Crime By Robert Barsocchini, March 27 2015

Amnesty notes in a new report that attacks by Gazans resisting Israeli occupation, invasion, and terrorist attacks amount to war crimes, due to the uncontrollable nature of the rudimentary projectiles Gazans are forced to use because of the Israeli occupation

Flight 9525 Crash: What’s Religion Got To Do with It? German Co-Pilot as Terrorist By Prof. Juan Cole, March 27 2015

Once it became clear that Andreas Lubitz, 28, deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, a reporter immediately asked “what was his religion?” (Parent company Lufthansa said they didn’t know). Authorities said there was no evidence it was “terrorism.”

Lubitz is from

NSA and Facebook Work Together By Kurt Nimmo, March 27 2015

Earlier this week the European Commission’s attorney Bernhard Schima told the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) the US-EU Safe Harbor framework does not work.

The framework process supposedly protects personal data. In 2013, however, it was discovered …

GMO Lobbyist Won’t Touch Monsanto’s ‘Perfectly Safe’ Chemicals By Christina Sarich, March 27 2015

In a revealing 6 minute 47 second video below, you can observe a brief synopsis of just how toxic GMO chemicals are. But the best part of this post, contributed by The Corbett Report, is the footage of Dr. Patrick …

New GMO Vaccines Alter Human DNA to Produce Artificial Immunity By David Gutierrez, March 27 2015

Recently, scientists took a huge leap forward in developing a radically new form of immunization. Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute reported in February that they had successfully used a new form of gene therapy to induce monkeys to produce …

John Bolton’s Call for War on Iran By Bill Van Auken, March 27 2015

The New York Times Thursday published a prominent opinion piece entitled “To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran.”

The author was John R. Bolton, a former State Department official and, for a brief period, US ambassador to the United Nations, under …

US House Passes Sweeping New Bipartisan Assault on Medicare By Kate Randall, March 27 2015

In a 392-37 vote, the US House on Thursday approved a bill that makes sweeping changes to the Medicare program that provides health insurance to more than 54 million seniors and the disabled. The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act

12th Anniversary Of the Illegal Invasion of Iraq: The Anglo-American Iraqi Genocide By Gideon Polya, March 27 2015

British writer Harold Pinter declared in his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech:

“We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it ‘bringing freedom and democracy

Do Away With Elections? The Rituals of “Democracy” By Arthur D. Robbins, March 26 2015

Do away with elections? To even think such a thought is treasonous. An election, or should I say a presidential election, is one of the few occasions, or should I say the only occasion, on which we take a genuine

Israel Caught Spying On U.S. Behind Closed Doors Negotiations With Iran By Washington's Blog, March 26 2015

Of Course Israel Was Spying On U.S. Negotiations With Iran

It is – rightfully – front-page news that Israel was caught spying on the closed-door negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.

And the Obama administration is particularly outraged that Israel …

The War on Yugoslavia: The Real Face of American “Diplomacy” By Andrew Korybko, March 26 2015

The 16th anniversary of NATO’s War on Yugoslavia gives cause to reflect on what American ‘diplomacy’ is really all about.

The US has long trumpeted itself as the only paragon of virtue and ‘defender of freedom’ in the world, going
Greece: Fascists At the Gate By Conn Hallinan, March 26 2015

When some 70 members of the neo-Nazi organization Golden Dawn go on trial sometime this spring, there will be more than street thugs and fascist ideologues in the docket, but a tangled web of influence that is likely to engulf

Empire and Colonialism: Rich Men in London Still Deciding Africa’s Future By Colin Todhunter, March 26 2015

Some £600 million in UK aid money courtesy of the taxpayer is helping big business increase its profits in Africa via the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. In return for receiving aid money and corporate investment, African countries