World Affairs

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 […]

By James Smith This is the fourth article in the series outlining the Chinese threat, and possibility of war in 2014 “In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack — the direct […]

By Dana Gabriel In preparation for the upcoming North American Leaders Summit which will be held in Toluca, Mexico on February 19, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently held a meeting with his Canadian […]

by Andrew Korybko Ukraine’s “peaceful pro-European” protesters leave a burnt land behind. Photo of a burnt police bus taken by S.Morgunov at the Euromaidan in Kyiv on January 20, 2014 Rioters have seized the administration […]

by Manlio Dinucci While the West brags this week about having stopped the military nuclear development programme that Iran ended definitively in 1988, Manlio Dinucci reminds us that the production of nuclear weapons in the […]

By Alasdair Macleod A number of readers and bloggers have recently suggested there must be collusion between America and China over the transfer of physical gold from Western capital markets. They assume that governments know […]

by Thierry Meyssan The discovery of links connecting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Al- Qaeda is upsetting Turkish politics. Ankara not only actively supported terrorism in Syria, but did so as part of a […]