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The Battle for Ukraine’s Soul
Stephen Lendman [M]any previous articles explained the geopolitical importance of crisis conditions in Ukraine. The book "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How ...
The Occupation is Forever
The Enclosure of the Palestinians by EVAN JONES, Counterpunch [T]he ‘two-state solution’ is perennially misunderstood. The solution envisaged has nothing ...
Predictions: Ukraine May Stop Russian Gas Transit to EU
DISPATCH FROM FUTURIST TRENDCAST Posted by Lada Ray [T]his just in: Ukraine may stop Russian gas transit to EU. Kiev is considering ...
This World Reeks of War
Another Hiroshima Remembered by LUCIANA BOHNE, Counterpunch [T]he authentic quotation—“this house reeks of blood”– comes from Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon.” Cassandra speaks ...
Middle East in Turmoil
Israel's only enemies are ones it invents. The same is true for America. Stephen Lendman [A]gain my great thanks to ...
Roger Cohen on resurgent anti-Semitism—the semi-explanations
MEDIA CRITIQUES Patrice Greanville [T]he New York Times Sunday Review (Aug. 3, 2014) just ran a typically smooth opinion piece by ...
Ukraine: Slovyansk Falls To Fascists, House to House Extrajudicial Executions Reported, Concentration Camps Planned
By Steven Argue, Revolutionary Tendency [H]atred is deeply entrenched in the Ukraine's Nazis against Ukraine's Russian speaking minority who are ...
Beautiful dream of Israel has become a nightmare
Opinion / Commentary Everyone ought to be sad at what the beautiful old dream of Jewish redemption has come to. Everyone ought ...
USrael: The Democracidal Minotaur in the Cesspool of Imagination
By Gary Corseri “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength,” Orwell told us in “1984.” All oxymoronically true ...
Eyeless in Gaza
Israel's Deceptions Israel is occupying and besieging Gaza, conferring on its inhabitants a right under international law to fight for ...
The Moral Agonies of Asymmetrical Diplomacy
The Assault on Gaza War is the abandonment of morality to expediency. And whether or not Americans know it, they ...
Leaving Brennan as CIA Director Means the Triumph of Secret Government
Democracy...going, going gone Dave Lindorff. This Can't Be Happening! [S]en. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), head of the Senate Select Committee on ...