Dark Age America: The Collapse of Political Complexity | John Michael Greer

Oct. 8, 2014 (Archdruid Report) -- The senility that afflicts ruling elites in their last years, the theme of the previous post in this sequence, is far from the only factor leading the rich and infl ...

Obama and Occupy Share an Umbrella? | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 2, 2014 “Don’t believe everything you hear on the radio.” - Charles Foster Kane Let’s say it’s 1997 and you get asked to help with an effort ...

Guest Column from Germany -- America Frightens Us -- Roman Baudzus

Aug. 25, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Dear Friends: I am pleased to be able to share with you this revealing article written for our website by the editor of an important website in Germany. Washin ...

Nazi Germany, Holy Grail, and Myths of Racial Superiority | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Aug. 20, 2014 With rare exceptions, humans are not driven to commit atrocities. With rare exceptions, humans can be driven to commit atrocities. ...

The West Is On The Wrong Path | Gabor Steingart, publisher, Handelsblatt

Gabor SteingartAug. 8, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Finally an independent voice has come out of Europe. The publisher of Germany’s most important newspaper has criticized both the German press for ...

Washington’s Iron Curtain in Ukraine | Diana Johnstone

Tightening the U.S. Grip on Western Europe June 8, 2014 (CounterPunch.org) -- NATO leaders are currently acting out a deliberate charade in Europe, designed to reconstruct an Iron Curtain between Rus ...

Yuri Kochiyama, Internment, and the Activist Life | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 5, 2014 “Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.” - Yuri Kochiyama One of the ...

Tiananmen Square After 25 Years | Brian Becker

Pro-democracy student protesters sit face to face with police outside the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square on 22 April 1989 Picture: AFP June 4, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- The Tiananm ...

Putin's best quotes from French media talk | RT

June 4, 2014 (RT) -- Vladimir Putin faced a barrage of tricky questions from French media ahead of his meeting with world leaders at the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. Here are his best r ...

Why War Is Inevitable | Paul Craig Roberts

May 25, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Memorial Day is when we commemorate our war dead. Like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day is being turned into a celebration of war. Those who lose family members ...

Russia’s Rise To Global Power | Paul Craig Roberts

May 24, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Western propaganda about events in Ukraine has two main purposes. One is to cover up, or to distract from, Washington’s role in overthrowing the elected democratic ...