Why Does Ukraine Keep Attacking Civilian Areas in Donetsk?

Vladislav Ugolny Rockets have hit peaceful neighborhoods once again. Why does Kiev continue its policy, if not purely out of hate? The logic behind the terror At least ten rockets hit central areas of Donetsk on Saturday morning, damaging three residential buildings, a local Russian official has reported in his Telegram channel. One of the projectiles fired…

British Psychological Warfare Threatens Balkan Conflict

Kit Klarenberg NATO soldiers patrol a roadblock set up by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, on Aug. 1, 2022 Image: Sratfor Ever since the war in Ukraine began, speculation has swirled about a “second front” opening in the Balkans – in particular, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the country’s internal Republika Srpska at the centre of these concerns….

Lies Liberals Tell to Obscure Operation Z’s Anti-Fascist Nature, & Discourage Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Rainer Shea When almost two-thirds of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck because of the inflation that the Ukraine war has accelerated, the U.S. empire can only continue its proxy war by carrying out an unprecedented amount of psyops. The war machine’s narrative managers have had to innovate, or else the social base for their Eurasian destabilization…

Woman, Life, Freedom…and NATO

Ariana Mohammadi A superpower in decline still retains a vast appetite for irregular, proxy warfare to slow down the imminent multipolar order. Iran, Russia, China are its big targets and all tools will be employed. To maintain its global hegemony in the face of a rapidly emerging multipolar world, the US seeks to restrict the redistribution of…

Where Does the Security State End & Social Media Begin?

The revolving door between the US security state and social media corporations has become larger every year. Former employees from the CIA, FBI, DoD, NATO and other agencies are being hired more and more by large social media corporations like Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter and others. What are the implications of such a strong connection?…

News Reporting, Justice and Induced Dementia

Stephen Sefton People who have had to care for elderly loved ones who suffer from the terrible disease of dementia commonly find during this experience that our loved ones can hold grammatically correct but completely meaningless conversations. These may be with imaginary people, about non-existent situations, or recalling events that never happened. The conversation sounds…

The Holodomor Myth

Scott Ritter On December 2 of this year, I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on day two of a three-day “residence” sponsored by the Ann Arbor Coalition Against War. The first day, December 1, saw a wonderful event the organizers called “Pubology”, set in the upstairs bar of the Original Cottage Inn. It was standing room…

Campaign to Sanction “Pro-Putin” Professor Carley Started by Journalist Funded by the Canadian Defence Ministry

Arnold August An image of Radio Canada (RDI) journalist Romain Schué and Université de Montréal student Katerina Sviderskaya, in front of a black background. The Canada Files can reveal that Ukrainian Université de Montréal student Katerina Sviderskaya obtained a grant worth thousands of dollars from Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND), four months before she…

Visegrad24 Funded by the Polish Government

Felix Livshitz Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki One of the largest media outlets in Eastern Europe is pushes fake news. Now a bombshell report suggests it’s sponsored by Warsaw. Chances are that any active Twitter user over the past year will have seen a tweet or two from an account called  Visegrad24 and, most likely, the information…

NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to the ‘Doorstep of Doom’

Robin Andersen Wall Street Journal (The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War 4/27/22): “Unless the US prepares to win a nuclear war, it risks losing one.” A popular cartoon aptly expresses the political angst provoked by media pundits today as they chatter on about nuclear war: Two people, both a little hunched over, burdened…

Iran: From Social Mobilizations to the Direct Armed Phase

Mission Verdad The classic sequence of a destabilization process established in Iran under the codification of color revolution. Since mid-September, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been subjected to a new cycle of destabilization. The death of a young Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini (22), on September 16 was the starting point. Amini, who had been…

The Billionaire Plot to Impose Full Corporate Dictatorship in the Core of a Declining Empire

Rainer Shea The arc of capitalism is one where the system contracts, losing the robustness that it had when it was in the process of replacing feudalism. Its demand for limitless growth inevitably runs into obstacles, and that forces it to eat itself. Because there’s no way for capital to reverse its decline, and the…

iSAGE: The Journalist-Run, Intelligence-Linked Operation that Warped British Pandemic Policy

Kit Klarenberg Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods. Throughout Britain’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, a lobbying group known as the Independent Scientific Advisory…

Leaked Files Show DHS “Ministry of Truth” Lives On in Secret

Kit Klarenberg On October 31, journalists Lee Fang and Ken Klippenstein released a trove of leaked documents exposing how, in recent years, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) desire – and ability – to curb speech in both online and offline realms has ramped up significantly. Along the way, a government department ostensibly founded to defend Americans…

The West Renounces Freedom of Expression

Thierry Meyssan This is a debate that we thought was closed: Westerners had affirmed that freedom of expression is an essential prerequisite for democracy and that they would never violate it again. However, the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy and Germany have already embarked on the path of censorship. Now there are things…

Sabotage as Part of the Euro-Atlantic Military Doctrine

Mission Verdad The attack on Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 is an example of NATO’s warlike actions with which it subordinates Europe to its hegemonic interests ( Photo: AFP ) The hegemonic dominance of the United States is at stake. Even though the axis of its strategy is to escalate conflicts without limits…

Left Anti-Communism Allows Imperialist Propaganda to Operate Unchallenged

Rainer Shea Ukraine is the great test for U.S. imperialism’s ability to sway minds to its side. Two decades into a process of decline for Washington’s hegemony, catalyzed by the irrecoverable global blowback from the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, the imperialists have staked their survival in the outcome of the Ukraine war. Not necessarily in…

Meet the Spooks, Mercs and Chickenhawk Politicos Enlisting as NAFO Trolls

Alexander Rubinstein While fundraising for a notoriously brutal militia in Ukraine and trolling critics of the proxy war, the membership roll of “North Atlantic Fellas Organization” has filled up with NATO suits, congressional chickenhawks, neocon operatives, mercenaries and intel agents. When he is not shedding performative tears over the fate of US democracy or publicly guffawing over the apparent…