Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine | Robert Parry

The U.S. news media has failed the American people often in recent years by not challenging U.S. government falsehoods, as with Iraq’s WMD. But the most dangerous violation of journalistic principles ...

Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says 'I Would Do It All Again' to Expose Torture | Amy Goodman

CIA whisteblower John Kiriakou as depicted in artist Robert Shetterly's "Americans Who Tell the Truth" series. (Credit: Robert Shetterly/Common Dreams) Feb. 9, 2015 (Democracy Now!) -- In a broadcast ...

Burning Truth: Fire as U.S. Policy | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 9, 2015 When news broke of an ISIS video that appeared to show a Jordanian prisoner being burnt alive, the Pope of Hope™ took the opportunit ...

‘Group-Thinking’ the World into a New War | Robert Parry

Exclusive: The armchair warriors of Official Washington are eager for a new war, this time with Russia over Ukraine, and they are operating from the same sort of mindless “group think” and hostility ...

BOOKS: Globalization of War. America’s 'Long War' against Humanity | Michel Chossudovsky

New book by Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research Publishers Jan. 21, 2015 (GlobalResearch.ca) -- America’s hegemonic project in the post 9/11 era is the “Globalization of War” whereby the U.S.-NA ...

Forgotten February in the United States of Aggression | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2015 Since it appears so many folks need reminding that “USA” has always stood for “United States of Aggression,” here are a forgotten fe ...

Is This Country Crazy? Inquiring Minds Elsewhere Want to Know | Ann Jones

Preface by Tom Engelhardt One of the grimmer small events of recent American life occurred just as 2014 was ending. A mother had her two-year-old toddler perched in a shopping cart at an Idaho Wal-Ma ...

IMF Lowers Global Growth Forecast by Most in Three Years | Andrew Mayeda

Jan. 20, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- The IMF made the steepest cut to its global-growth outlook in three years, with diminished expectations almost everywhere except the U.S. more than offsetting the boost t ...

Bank of America Warns Of 'Lethal' Damage To China's Financial System As Deflation Deepens | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Image: bruegel.org"Deflation, Devaluation, and Default" loom in China this year. The denouement for Shanghai's bourse will not be pretty, says the U.S. bank. Jan. 8, 2015 (Telegraph) -- China is at m ...

Russia Is Preparing for Nuclear War with the US and Its Allies | ACMPP

A Topol-M mobile launcher during rehearsals for the 2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade. Photo: Wikipedia (Editor's note: This is an interesting letter to the Mexican Civic Association Pro Silver, A.C., p ...

Trade Secrets | George Monbiot

George MonbiotWhy will no one answer the obvious, massive question about TTIP? Jan. 13, 2015 (Monbiot.com) -- When a government proposes to abandon one of the fundamental principles of justice, there ...