Writing on Greece’s relationship with Russia, The Guardian’s Natalie Nougayrede comments: “Russia is a player that cannot be ignored across many international fields, from the Middle East to nuclear proliferation and even climate change. It attacked Ukraine and trampled on…
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Noam Chomsky: In ‘Free’ Countries, Unpopular Ideas Can Be Suppressed Without the Use of Force
April 8, 2015
Noam Chomsky discusses income inequality, media, democracy and activism, among many other topics. One of the highlights comes when the renowned linguist paraphrases George Orwell’s virtually unread introduction to “Animal Farm” to explain how listening to the media, which are…
Where did all the Ukrainian neo-nazis go?
April 8, 2015
Interesting article that provides clear examples of how the mainstream softens its condemnation of extremist groups when they’re fighting to serve Western interests. Here it’s neo-nazis in Ukraine who pushed through the US/EU-backed coup, and act as the the SS…
Why the West is to blame for the crisis in Ukraine: the full story
March 30, 2015
Chris Nineham of Stop the War Coalition: “We in the West have a responsibility to do everything possible to force our leaders back from the brink.” http://stopwar.org.uk/news/why-the-west-is-to-blame-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine-the-full-story
Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War Report on ‘War on Terror’
March 26, 2015
The Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and other groups examined the toll from the so-called ‘War on Terror’ in three countries — Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The war has, directly or indirectly, killed around one…
Ukraine is latest of 35 countries where US has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists
March 26, 2015
The ugly reality is that the US government has a long and unbroken record of working with fascists, dictators, druglords and state sponsors of terrorism in every region of the world. Nicolas J S Davies takes a short look at…
Mainstream News’ Loyalties and Short Memory
March 25, 2015
We are very aware that at least 95% of what we all see, hear or read daily about Ukraine-Russia in the apparently varied but in reality highly uniform Western mainstream media will fit like a glove with the ‘US/European Case’…
REAL DEMOCRACY and REAL ANTI-TERRORISM: Countering the Western BIG LIES on Syria on Western Terms
February 17, 2014
by step-back.org’s mark “YOU CAN HAVE ANY COLOUR CAR YOU WANT, AS LONG AS IT’S BLACK” “A LIE TOLD OFTEN ENOUGH BECOMES THE TRUTH” It may have been disappointing to some others, as it was to me, to…
War Apologists Force Syria’s Best Hope of Reconciliation Out of Anti-War Conference
November 19, 2013
JONATHAN COOK’S EXCELLENT ARTICLE UNCOVERS COMPLETELY HOW A GROUP OF PRO-WESTERN INTERVENTIONISTS SUCCESSFULLY PRESSURED CAREER-MINDED ‘LEFTISTS’ LEADING TO MOTHER AGNES MARIAM – A KEY PEACEMAKER AND RECONCILER IN WAR AFFLICTED SYRIA – TO PULL OUT OF STOP THE WAR COALITION’S…
“The Ghouta Chemical Attacks: US-Backed False Flag?”
September 26, 2013
By Julie Lévesque and Prof Michel Chossudovsky The chemical attacks which took place in East Ghouta on August 21, 2013 could be the most horrific false flag operation in history. To date, available evidence indicates that numerous children were killed…