By STEPHEN KINZER
The Boston Globe — September 16, 2017
“These days the junta system
is making a comeback in, of all places, Washington.” (more…)
By RACHAEL BEVINS
17 September 2017. As many Americans struggle to get back on their feet after their homes were destroyed by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the United States government has insisted that the only way to raise money for relief efforts is to increase the national debt—while setting aside another $75 million in aid for Israel. (more…)
By JAMES PETRAS
¶ “While France and Brazil face real class war, the ‘classless’ US slouches toward nuclear war…. Trump’s unopposed capitalist military offensive will send clouds of nuclear ashes across the world.” — James Petras
¶ “Why bother having nuclear weapons if you are afraid to use them?” — Donald Trump, December 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8M74ufF4Q
By John Kaminski
pseudoskylax@gmail.com
America has let the world down. And worse than that, it has let its own people down. The dream it once claimed has been undressed as a sinister fraud. We teach our children to steal and kill, then praise them for the heroic way they murder innocent people. (more…)
By Paul Craig Roberts
The United States shows the world such a ridiculous face that the world laughs at us. The latest spin on “Russia stole the election” is that Russia used Facebook to influence the election. The NPR women yesterday were breathless about it. (more…)
by JEZ TURNER
(sourced from Western Spring)
Below are the words of a recent letter from twenty-four year old Lawrence Burns, who is currently serving a four year sentence in an English prison.
For what, you may ask?
Well you don’t go to prison for being a left-wing extremist or for shouting, “Kill all white men!” (more…)
By Mahmoud El-Yousseph
There are 12 million Palestinians in the world. Half of them are refugees living in squalid camps and in permanent exile. They are not allowed to return home to their rightful properties. However, under the 1950 Israeli discriminatory “Law of Return”, every Jew, no matter where he or she resides, enjoys automatic Israeli citizenship at the expense of Palestinian refugees who have lived on the land for generations — my late parents included.
I am the proud descendant of a race whose land has been stolen. (more…)
By SUE REID
for the Daily Mail
53 per cent of Americans now doubt the official version of 9/11. Even Osama bin Laden has begun to express his doubts from beyond the grave.
“Yep, I haven’t got a clue who did 9/11 — but it wasn’t me!”
[LD] Today marks the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 hoax. Don’t expect this article in the Daily Mail to proclaim it as an inside job. No chance of that. The importance of the article lies in the fact that it could never have been written five years ago. I suspect the writer of the article is a 9/11 skeptic, though she can’t afford to come out and say this openly in a mainstream newspaper. Any brainwashed beginner however, previously happy to accept the traditional narrative of Osama bin Laden as the mastermind behind 9/11, is bound to have second thoughts after reading this fascinating and factually fair article. [LD] (more…)
By ABDEL BARI ATWAN
Pictures, captions and comments by Lasha Darkmoon
To understand the state of panic currently afflicting the ruling elite in Israel, which has gone to the extent of openly threatening to bomb the presidential palace in Damascus and Iranian military formations in Syria, one need only refer to recent remarks made by Robert Ford, the last US ambassador to Syria. (more…)
by PHILIP GIRALDI
With brief notes and comments by Lasha Darkmoon
“It is time to say ‘No’ when Israel comes knocking.”
— Philip Giraldi
When politicians are feeling the heat, they start a war and their popularity goes up even if the war is unnecessary or completely ridiculous. Donald Trump, the presidential candidate who promised that he would not take the nation into another Middle Eastern war, did so when he launched a fifty-nine cruise missile barrage against a Syrian Air Base even before he knew for sure what had happened on the ground. It was totally stupid but proved to be popular, even among talking heads and Congressmen, some of whom described his action as “presidential” in the best sense of the word. (more…)
by THE SAKER
Here the Saker finally reveals his hand, accusing Trump of “petty thuggery” and of being “in spineless subservience to the neocons”.
“Both armed with nukes. Scary. Really scary. Even more scary
is that the stronger man of the two is beyond any doubt Kim Jong-un.”
— The Saker (more…)
By Peter Symonds
Trump was asked on Sunday: “Will you attack North Korea?”
He refused to rule out pre-emptive military strikes,
simply declaring: “We’ll see.” (more…)
Sourced from RT
US raid of Russian diplomatic sites
is a “parade of power to reassert claim for global dominion”
Annie Machon (pictured) is a former intelligence officer for MI5, the UK Security Service, who resigned in the late 1990s to blow the whistle on the spies’ incompetence and crimes with her ex-partner, David Shayler. Drawing on her varied experiences, she is now a public speaker, writer, media pundit, international tour and event organiser, political campaigner, and PR consultant. She has a rare perspective both on the inner workings of governments, intelligence agencies and the media, as well as the wider implications for the need for increased openness and accountability in both public and private sectors. (more…)
By Caroline Scott
(‘The Daily Mail’)
Abridged by Lasha Darkmoon
with additional notes and comments
Antidepressants can lead to brain damage, suicide and murder, yet they are being prescribed to 120 million people worldwide, including 1-year-old babies. Has the world gone mad?
