“News is what someone, somewhere is trying to suppress; the rest is just advertising.” – Press Magnate Alfred Harmsworth, later Britain’s Lord Northcliffe There is a total stand down on prosecuting Israeli espionage networks here. Such a situation could never have happened unless all of our counter-intelligence, judicial and political institutions had been compromised as primary…
Several protesters killed and hundreds arrested as police disperse rallies in support of deposed president. At least five people have been killed and 265 others arrested as Egyptian riot police deployed water cannon and tear gas against hundreds of rock-throwing supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi, government officials said. The clashes on Friday followed an…
Turkey has been shaken by the most extensive and sensational corruption investigations of its recent history that have led to dozens of detentions – from renowned business people to senior bureaucrats and sons of ministers. There is a consensus in Turkey that the graft crackdown is linked to the recent tensions between the United States-based…
By Peter Koenig December 21, 2013 “Information Clearing House – The Pitchfork movement started in December 2012 in the South of Italy by farmers protesting against higher taxes, higher fuel and fertilizer prices due to Mario Monti’s (then PM), imposed austerity program – which is in turn imposed by Monti’s countryman, Mr. Draghi, President of the…
By Jed S. Rakoff Five years have passed since the onset of what is sometimes called the Great Recession. While the economy has slowly improved, there are still millions of Americans leading lives of quiet desperation: without jobs, without resources, without hope. Who was to blame? Was it simply a result of negligence, of the kind…
Dahr Jamail* – The Nation How will climate change affect the future of the planet? Scientists predict it will be nothing short of a nightmare. I haven’t returned to Mount Rainier to see just how much further that glacier has receded in the last few years, but recently I went on a search to…
by Patrick Cockburn Everyone knows where al-Qa’ida gets its money, but while the violence is sectarian, the West does nothing. Donors in Saudi Arabia have notoriously played a pivotal role in creating and maintaining Sunni jihadist groups over the past 30 years. But, for all the supposed determination of the United States and its…
Tehran: Mossad and Saudi intelligence are designing super-Stuxnet to destroy Iran’s nuclear program DEBKAfile Special Report December 3, 2013, 9:31 AM (GMT+02:00) Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency “reveals” that Saudi Arabia and Israel’s Mossad are “co-conspiring to produce a computer worm more destructive than the Stuxnet malware to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.” The report appeared Monday, Dec.…
By Pepe Escobar December 09, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Beware of strangers bearing gifts. The “gift” is the ongoing, frantic canonization of Nelson Mandela. The “strangers” are the 0.0001 percent, that fraction of the global elite that’s really in control (media naturally included). It’s a Tower of Babel of tributes piled up in layer upon…
The US has become the fifth-most wealth-unequal country in the world. The facts are indisputable, the conclusion painful. The wealthiest people in the US and around the world have used the stock market and the deregulated financial system to lay claim to the resources that should belong to all of us. This is not…