Selected Articles: Obama’s War against Truth, Cracks in the US Empire, Propaganda Attacks on Burundi
The War against the Truth, When the Lie Becomes the Truth. Is Obama Preparing War Against Russia?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 07 2017
At the end of Obama’s presidency, Fiction has become Fact. A world of fantasy permeates the mainstream media. The Lie has become the Truth. “Fake New” has become “Real News”. And “Real News” by the independent online media is now tagged as Russian propaganda. What we are dealing with is a War against the Truth.
Censored 2016: The Most Important Stories That You Never Heard About
By Michael Welch, Andy Lee Roth, and John Schertow, January 08 2017
This week’s Global Research News Hour rings in the new year with a retrospective look at the past year’s news stories, in particular, those important stories that did not garner the kind of media attention they deserved.
As We Move Into 2017: The Cracks in the Empire are Here… How will the U.S. Empire Dissolve?
By Jan Oberg, January 07 2017
The indicators, the cracks, in the Empire are there for all to see – the Americans and other Westerners will be the last and remain in denial for some time until the discrepancy between the self-image and the reality, the self-delusion, has grown too big. Like East Germany or Russia at in the early 1980s. The rest of the world, the non-West sees some of these cracks quite clearly.
Military Coups, Regime Change…: The CIA Has Interfered In Over 81 Foreign Elections…
By Nina Agrawal, January 09 2017
The CIA has accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 presidential election (with absolutely zero evidence) by hacking into Democratic and Republican computer networks and selectively releasing emails. But critics might point out the U.S. has done similar things. The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries – it’s done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.
Geopolitics of Central Africa: Relentless Propaganda Attacks on Burundi
By Ann Garrison, January 07 2017
The end of the unipolar, U.S.-led global order is most dramatically signified by the U.S. loss of its proxy war with Russia in Syria, despite dropping bombs faster than U.S. weapons industries could manufacture them. For the past year and a half, a much quieter struggle has been playing out in the tiny East African nation of Burundi.
“Undercover Investigation”: How Many British MPs Are Working for Israel?
By Jonathan Cook, January 09 2017
Al Jazeera are to be congratulated on an undercover investigation exposing something most of us could probably have guessed: that some Israeli embassy staff in the UK – let’s not pussy around, Mossad agents – are working with senior political activists and politicians in the Conservative and Labour parties to subvert their own parties from within, and skew British foreign policy so that it benefits Israeli, rather than British, interests.
