It seems clear now that whenever a regime is damned as repressive by “world opinion” then it is being marked for “regime change” in the interests of global capitalism. One…
It has been the contention of this writer since the 1980s that Russia and China are fundamental rivals, regardless of pragmatic alliances. The “fraternal” relations that supposedly existed between two…
Read Part 1 and Part 2. The more one studies the dark history of the US national security state, the more transparent the CIA – Wall Street connections become. The…
Undermining the Regime As the regimes in Egypt and Tunisia fall, and fighting breaks out across Libya, billionaire philanthropist and investor George Soros saw it fit to provide his insight…
Of the many unanswered questions about the attacks of September 11, one of the most important is: Why were none of the four planes intercepted? A rough answer is that…
Background Information In Oceania, the islands of Bougainville and Buka (together making the Autonomous Region of Bougainville) are geographically and linguistically a member of the Solomon Islands, east of Papua…
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article misstated the population of Kurds in Iraq. The error has been corrected in the text below. Introduction Kurds are the largest stateless…
“When the history of Russian justice is written fifty years from now, two landmark court cases will stand out: The death sentence of Nikolai Bukharin in his Moscow show trial…
I. Introduction The illicit opiate market is a flexible one that is capable of avoiding any limitation on its profitability. This makes it difficult to tailor an effective policy response. …
“…he is a good-for-nothing-man [who] simply betrayed his people…” When the news media touts an individual as a great human being, one should immediately become cynical. When Hollywood touts an…
During the 2008 presidential campaign, then Illinois Senator Barrack Obama told an audience at a roundtable discussion at Purdue University in Indiana, “We are constantly fighting the last war. Responding…
Crisis scenarios are the means by which dictators justify control. The most often cited example is Hitler’s “Enabling Act” in the wake of the Reichstag Fire. Another example is the…
During October 19-22, 2010, Charles Rivkin, US Ambassador to France, invited a 29-member delegation from the Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) to a conference in France, the stated purpose…
Read Part I This paper will review the evidence for informed, or insider, trading in the days and hours before the 9/11 attacks. From the very first, the phenomenon appeared…
An enlightening article by Tony Cartalucci,[1] entitled “Google’s Revolution Factory – Alliance of Youth Movements: Color Revolution 2.0,” has been published by Global Research.[2] Here Cartalucci focuses on the Alliance…
Very few images are more disturbing than the wide-eyed child, covered with flies and belly swollen from malnutrition. This is as it should be. The United Nations estimates that a…
Summary Institutionalizing Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in the bureaucratic structure of Middle Eastern states faces two major, intertwined problems: first, the ‘state’ in the context of Middle East, not withstanding…
“Most participants argued for privatization and a strong private sector economy.” That is a statement culled from a report of a panel discussion entitled “Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Prospect and The…
“Revolutions are often seen as spontaneous. It looks like people just went into the street. But it’s the result of months or years of preparation. It is very boring until…
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at the very least informed in May 2003 by the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, that…