Why can westerners join the IDF while westerners joining IS are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one? In recent weeks there has been a…
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It was the prospect of Ukraine being drawn into the western military alliance that triggered conflict in the first place ‘Western powers are resisting the negotiated settlement that is the only way out in Ukraine…
Armed humanitarianism 2.0. That’s our new western version of old-fashioned 19th century imperialism, now feminized by President Barack Obama’s lady advisors, painted pink and accompanied by the kind of soft piano music you…
It seems that ISIS has emptied the prisons (a popular move); removed concrete barricades (a gesture of confidence); and dropped the price of gasoline, cooking oil and other staples. See, many Sunni Mosul…
Media reports about the execution of Kim Jong-Un’s former lover Hyon Song-Wol for making a sex tape turned out to be nothing but sleazy western propaganda porn. Hyon Song-Wol turned up alive. Western mainstream media…
The South Korea Ferry Disaster Is Truly Awful, But It Is Not Murder Almost everything about the aftermath of the South Korean ferry disaster – except, tragically, the initial response – has seemed heightened, intense,…
“Venezuela Shows That Protest Can Be A Defence Of Privilege” Street action is now regularly used with western backing to target elected governments in the interests of elites If we didn’t know it…
Its government has no real power; militias are ever more entrenched, and now the state itself is under threat The Libyan former prime minister Ali Zeidan fled last week after parliament voted him out of…
Moscow (AFP) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday called for an OSCE investigation into who was behind the deaths of dozens of people in Kiev last month in attacks by snipers,…
The media cover-up has been a weapon in the crimes of western states since the first world war. But a reckoning is coming for those paid to keep the record straight A baby in…