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By Finian Cunningham “Information Clearing House” – Washington is moving inevitably on a global war plan. That’s the grim conclusion one has to draw from three unfolding war scenarios. Ultimately, it’s about American imperialism trying to assert hegemony over the international order for the benefit of US capitalism. Russia and …

Five Palestinian Women, still dreaming of freedom: Rola Khalid Ghanem, Rana Bishara, Farah Akef Hamouda, Hiba Al-Jindawi, and Tasaheel Burnat. (Photos: Supplied) By Wasan Abu Baker Mahmoud Darwish, A Palestinian poet summed up what I need to say about Palestinian women with the words “Mother, I will not name you …

John Menadue We are a nation in denial that we are ‘joined at the hip’ to a dangerous ally. Apart from brief isolationist periods, the US has been almost perpetually at war; wars that we have often foolishly been drawn into. The US has subverted and overthrown numerous governments over …

By Bill Van Auken 2 March 2018 On February 27, the New York Review of Bookspublished an open letter signed by some 200 people, many of them identifying themselves as activists, academics, writers and journalists. Originally titled “Stop pretending that you can’t do anything to save Syrians,” the headline was …

(Tribunal Permanente de los Pueblos Contra la Guerra Imperialista y la OTAN, TPPCGIO) INTRODUCTION The TPPCGIO held its first ordinary session in Madrid on November 6-8, 2015. More than 70 participants registered and four panels covered the following issues: NATO, the media, refugees and low-intensity conflicts. These groups worked on …

By Dr. Vandana Shiva Note: Originally published in April 2013 Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed, “Monsanto is an agricultural company. We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world produce more while …

  The United States spent at least $12 billion in Syria-related military and civilian expenses in the four years from 2014 through 2017, according to former U.S. ambassador Robert Ford, Ben Norton reports. By Ben Norton The United States spent at least $12 billion in Syria-related military and civilian expenses …

Exclusive: The Russiagate narrative has taken a turn toward the surreal with a report in the New York Times alleging that U.S. spies paid a “shadowy Russian” $100,000 for dirt on the president, explains Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare A Russian national with ties to cybercrime and Russian intelligence snookered U.S. spooks …

Tony Devon This Thursday, Russia and 14 other countries that formerly comprised the USSR will commemorate the 29th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA). The conflict, which spanned over nine years, was a major escalation point in the Cold War and its …

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK   The jihadists in Egypt’s Northern Sinai had killed hundreds of soldiers and police officers, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, briefly seized a major town and begun setting up armed checkpoints to claim territory. In late 2015, they brought down a Russian passenger jet. Egypt appeared unable to stop them, so Israel, …