The Hannibal Directive: Was October 7th a Hamas or Israeli Massacre?

William Van Wagenen Israel’s controversial military policy of killing its own citizens to preserve national security may be its defining mistake of 7 October. Would there have even been a ‘massacre’ that day if Israel had not employed the Hannibal Directive? A farewell ceremony was recently held for 12-year-old Liel Hezroni, an Israeli girl from Kibbutz Be’eri…

The New World Order, According to Trump and the Ultra-Nationalists of the Extreme Right

Oswaldo Espinoza When Trump first won the election, thanks to the peculiarities of the U.S. electoral system, although formally it was a triumph of the Republican Party, in fact those who rose to power were the ultra-right extreme nationalists of the country, represented in first place by the white supremacist oligarchy, owner of industries and…

Stephen Lewis: The NDP’s Liberal Imperialist

Yves Engler If the New Democratic Party wants to be part of the solution and not a barrier to creating a better foreign policy it needs to start telling the truth. Stephen Lewis is a liberal imperialist who largely ignores Canada’s contribution to African subjugation. Just before the election Svend Robinson for Burnaby North-Seymour published…

Egyptian Protests: A US-Fuelled “Arab Spring” Reboot

Tony Cartalucci When the West’s leading media organizations attempt to convince audiences they know nothing about where Mohammed Aly – a Spanish-based Egyptian protest leader – came from, the first thing one can be sure of is they are being lied to. Protests have begun to spread again in Egypt after nearly a decade of frustration…

“Gaza Fights For Freedom”Humanizes World’s Largest Concentration Camp

Miko Peled GAZA, OCCUPIED PALESTINE — In her new documentary film, Gaza Fights for Freedom, journalist Abby Martin places the Gaza Strip under a microscope for the viewers to see. The result is an excellent movie that is difficult to watch, and disturbing at times, precisely because it presents a true, realistic view of life…

Conversations with Fidel Castro: The Dangers of a Nuclear War

Fidel Castro Ruz and Prof Michel Chossudovsky First published by Global Research on November 13, 2010. Today is August 9, 2019. A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 Introductory Note From October 12 to 15, 2010, I had extensive and detailed discussions with Fidel Castro in Havana, pertaining to the…

The Egyptian Parliament Supports the Libyan House of Representatives

On the proposal of the Egyptian National Committee, 70 members of the Libyan House of Representatives travelled to Cairo and were received by their Egyptian counterparts. In a statement, they affirmed, – their commitment to the integrity and sovereignty of Libya; – the Libyan House of Representatives is the only democratically elected body; – their…

Kuwait Clamps Down on the Muslim Brotherhood

Gamal Essam El-Din Kuwaiti news agency KUNA reported on Monday that the Kuwaiti government had handed a “terrorist cell” comprising eight Egyptians linked to the Muslim Brotherhood to Egyptian authorities on Sunday evening. The move prompted Egyptian MPs and political analysts to speculate that Kuwait was on the cusp of designating the Muslim Brotherhood as…

Turkey Intervenes Militarily in Libya Through its Base in Tripoli

Abdullah Milad Al-Maqri Turkey declares that it is preparing to intervene in Libya under the pretext of protecting its citizens, specifically those in the Skhirat Council and its delegated government, begging for intervention on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood, Libyan militas and the February counter-revolutionary leaders who have made Turkey a center and a destination…

Libya: The LNA Will Presist

Reda Shaaban In the conference’s closing statement they urged the LNA to accelerate the liberation of the Libyan capital and eliminate crime and terrorism there. They condemned the alliance between the militias and the Chairman of the Libyan Presidency Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, whom they hold responsible for the deterioration of the situation in Libya. They…

Libya: Sabha Attack Reveals Al-Wefaq Government’s Link with Daesh

The Media center of the Karama Operations Room issued a statement in a televised speech about the terrorist attack, which targeted a training camp in the Libyan city of Sabha. “This morning on social media, the trumpets of the illegal government of accord, claimed responsibility for the criminal act carried out by remnants of the…

Shadow Boxing for Empire: The Mueller Report

James Petras Introduction By the end of the Obama regime, the US had gone through seven wars and was in the process of losing five of them. Washington was facing global challenges to its dominant economic and political role from Russia and China. The US adopted a dual response: to pursue a policy of reconciliation…

Cuban Revolutionary Government Declaration on the Playa Girón Anniversary

Granma Today, April 17, is the anniversary of the launching of the United State’s 1961 military invasion at Playa Girón. (Bay of Pigs) The Cuban people’s resolute response in defense of the Revolution and socialism, within only 72 hours, produced the first military defeat of imperialism in America. Strangely, the date was chosen by the…

International Criminal Court: Instrument of Imperialist, Colonial Aggression and Oppression

Prof. Francis A. Boyle The United Nations Organization (U.N.O.) has receded far distant from the positive role it used to play in Africa from the late 1950s to the 1980s when the U.N.O. worked vigorously for the decolonization of Africa from the white racist Western colonial imperial powers. Today what we are witnessing instead is…

Global NATO: A 70-Year Alliance of Oppressors in Crisis

Horace G. Campbell On the Limits of  Military Management of the International System Introduction The celebration of NATO’s 70 years of existence provides another opportunity to unearth the real history of the ideas, practices and destruction wrought by this military alliance. Even with the clear exposure of the cooperation between NATO, the CIA and the…

On NATO’s 70th Anniversary it is Important to Remember its Anti-democratic Roots

Yves Engler “The power  of the communists, wherever that power flourishes, depends upon their ability to suppress and destroy the free institutions that stand against them. They pick them off one by one: the political parties, the trade unions, the churches, the schools, the universities, the trade associations, even the sporting clubs and the kindergartens….

Now for Confrontation in Space

Brian Cloughley There was much international news in mid-March, although little of it was encouraging for those who prefer peace to war, handshakes to sabre-rattling, and cooperation to confrontation. But there was one item of good cheer which showed that friendly cooperation between the US and Russia continues, albeit unobtrusively. It concerned the International Space…

Welcome to Hell: The Peruvian Mining City of La Rinconada

Andre Vltchek Magestic approach to La Rinconadsa – through garbage © Andre Vltchek While the West attacks Venezuela, a country that improved the lives of many of its citizens, it overlooks horrors that are taking place in Peru and other ‘pro-market’ countries in Latin America. La Rinconada, which lies at over 5km above sea level,…

New Zealand Mosque Massacre: White Supremacy and Western Wars

James Petras The mass murder and wounding of 97 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand (NZ) which took place on Friday, March 15, 2019, has profound political, ideological, and psychological roots. First and most important, Western countries led by the Anglo-American world has been at war killing and uprooting millions of Muslims with impunity over…

Canadian Military in Haiti. Why?

Yves Engler Canadian troops may have recently been deployed to Haiti, even though the government has not asked Parliament or consulted the public for approval to send soldiers to that country. Last week the Haiti Information Project photographed heavily-armed Canadian troops patrolling the Port-au-Prince airport. According to a knowledgeable source I emailed the photos to, they were…

The CIA: Using Turkey to Pressure China

Thierry Meyssan For the last few weeks, the Turkish Press has been talking about the fate of the Uyghurs, the Turkish-speaking Muslim population of China. The political parties of the opposition, including the Kemalists, have been outdoing one another to condemn the Han repression of this minority and its religion. This effervescence follows:  The report…