World Affairs

By Seymour M. Hersh In August-September 2013, Barack Obama, David Cameron and François Hollande accused Syria of killing 1,400 opponents in the suburbs of Damascus. Denouncing that a red line had been crossed, they threatened […]

Source: Voltaire Network Yesterday’s leak of the flagrant telephone talk between the US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt has already hit the international media headlines. […]

Source: RT Ships from the Iranian army’s naval fleet are headed towards the United States maritime borders as part of a longstanding protest against US vessels in the Persian Gulf, Fars News Agency reports. “The […]

Source: Voltaire Network Two Turkish groups have released a report on the war crimes perpetrated against the Syrian people. According to them, the events started in Deraa on the “Day of Wrath” against the neoliberal […]

Source: Market Sanity             Video first released on 4/5/14 “I think China is going to slow down significantly. China is about 10 percent of global GDP, so if you slow […]

by Mark Hackard Peaceful protesters in Kyiv preparing another assault on Berkut police units. Ukraine is teetering on the verge of civil war, and as usual Western media haven’t been particularly helpful in shedding light […]

By Mike Whitney The selloff that began in May 2013, when the Fed announced its plan to scale back its asset purchases, resumed with a vengeance on Monday as global shares were slammed in heavy […]

Iceland may not have had many people – just 320,000 on an island a little smaller than Great Britain – but by the 21st century it had built itself into a banking powerhouse. In 2008, […]

By Eric Draitser The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government.  Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most […]

By Stephen Lendman It’s an open secret. It’s been known for years. Mainstream media suppress it. They pretend none exists. It’s real. It’s menacing. Imagine ignoring what threatens humanity. Imagine pretending Iran’s peaceful nuclear program […]