Nick Turse,TomDispatch TomDispatch is distinctly a forever-war creation. When I began it almost 23 years ago, the U.S. had just invaded Afghanistan and, of course, there wasn’t the faintest sense that what had been launched then, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on this country, would still be going on globally so many years later, […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 24-30 March 2024 The Singapore cargo ship Dali chartered by Maersk, which collapsed that Baltimore, US bridge on Tuesday 26 March, was carrying 764 tons of hazardous materials to Sri Lanka – mostly corrosives, flammables, miscellaneous hazardous materials, and Class-9 hazardous materials, including explosives & […]

PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA,ABIR DASGUPTA Courtesy Frontline The Hindu Beyond trade-offs and extortion, the scheme goes to the very heart of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term goal of an ideological dictatorship. Published : Mar 29, 2024 18:36 IST – 17 MINS READLet us start with four apparently disparate examples. Example 1: Ajay Mishra Teni, Union Minister of State […]

Courtesy Frontline The Hindu Disclosure of massive donations, heavily favouring BJP, has triggered a debate on the relevance of transparency, fairness, and honesty in politics. On March 14, the Election Commission of India (ECI) published details of crores of rupees worth of political donations, confirming the immense financial advantage of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya […]

Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The investigation has obtained evidence of the connection of the terrorists who carried out the attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue with Ukrainian nationalists, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Thursday. “The initial results of the investigation fully confirm the planned nature of the terrorists’ actions, careful preparation […]

SCOTT RITTER  Courtesy  Scott Ritter Extra Russia just wrapped up three days of electoral processes which will define the internal direction of that nation for the next six years and, in doing so, serve as the driving force of global transformation for decades to come. Russia has some 112.3 million registered voters. From March 15 […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Several reports in mainstream US media outlets show how the CIA has helped to direct the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and played a role in causing the conflict in the first place. Ben Norton examines the evidence.

By P.K.Balachandran/Counterpoint Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 19: It was no surprise that Vladimir Putin won the Russian Presidential election last Sunday. With no one of any standing to challenge him, he bagged 88% of the vote, a record till date. The nationwide turnout was 74.22%, surpassing the 2018 level of 67.5%. Communist candidate Nikolai Kharitonov […]

Special correspondent Pravda.Ru Daria Aslamova met in India with the President of the BRICS International Forum, Ms. Purnima Anand. Photo: Pravda.Ru by Daria Aslamova Why are you participating as an international observer in the election campaign in Russia, including in the new Russian territories? “Elections in Russia are very important for the whole world, because the Russian […]

Cyrus Janssen The German Economy is finished. Once the economic powerhouse of Europe, Germany is now struggling for economic survival and guess which country is most responsible? The United States! Germany’s economy is crashing for three main reasons: Sky High Energy Prices, Reduced Exports to China, and Increased Military Expenditures. In today’s video I’ll break […]

PEPE ESCOBAR  Courtesy The Unz Review The Four Stooges saga of Bundeswehr officers plotting to blow up the Kerch bridge in Crimea with Taurus missiles and getting away with it is a gift that keeps on giving. President Putin, in his comprehensive interview to Dmitry Kiselev for Russia 1/RIA Novosti, did not fail to address […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Mirror Vladimir Putin Colombo, March 13: Of the two countries that are at each other’s throats now – Russia and Ukraine – it is Ukraine which appears to be the underdog despite massive American and Western arms aid. While the Russian economy is growing despite severe US and European sanctions, Ukraine is facing […]

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Courtesy  Intercept First, The Intercept reported on how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), delivered a series of donations worth $95,000 to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson in the days after he passed $14 billion in military aid for Israel in November. Meanwhile, AIPAC plans to spend upward of $100 million to oust progressive […]

Courtesy TomDispatch You know we’re in an increasingly extreme world when a young American airman burns himself to death outside the Israeli embassy in Washington to protest Israel’s nightmarish war in Gaza. (Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people,” he wrote in an […]

Courtesy Hiru News A Spanish tourist has suffered a group sexual assault in the Dumka district while traveling around the world with her husband. Seven men have raped me, recalled the Spanish woman who was gang-raped in Jharkhand’s Dumka, around 300 km from state capital Ranchi, on Friday night. The woman, with bruises all over […]

tomdispatch.com/ Imagine for a moment that I told you Congress was suddenly teetering at the edge of passing a $95-billion bill to give many more Americans reasonable health care. No, it really doesn’t sound likely, does it? Okay, then, how about Congress teetering at the edge of passing just such a bill to further arm Ukraine, Israel, […]

Courtesy The Intercept In 2018, shortly after U.S. Congress woman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), ousted incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District, her office got an unexpected phone call. It was the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group, offering an unsolicited donation of $100,000. AOC declined the money and […]

By Katherine J. Cramer and Jonathan D. Cohen Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Plight of the American poor New York, February 21 (New York Times): When asked what drives the economy, many Americans have a simple, single answer that comes to mind immediately: greed.” They believe the rich and powerful have designed the economy to benefit themselves and […]

Geopolitical Economy Report NATO’s new cold war on Russia and China is destroying Germany’s industrial base, devastating Europe’s economy, and destabilizing its politics, fueling the rise of the far-right, as neoliberal austerity policies exacerbate the ongoing recession. Ben Norton analyzes the evidence.

Neutrality Studies The hypocrisy of the West and the utterly fake outrage over the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is breathtaking. While torturing to death Julian Assange in a UK prison—an Australian citizen who had been working in the UK and whose only “crime” it is to have revealed truths about US war crimes—and […]

Dialogue works Larry C. Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and […]

Courtesy Sputnik © Sputnik / Stringer On January 24, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Air Force Il-76 military transport plane over the Belgorod region that was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners set for exchange. Kiev’s British advisers are responsible for the deaths of the POWs and the crew of the Il-76 transport plane, which […]

By William J. Astore TomDispatch.com Like many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played war” with those old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the Nazis and the Japs” during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel […]

Courtesy TomDispatch.com War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. So that classic late 1960s song claimed. Still, for Bill Astore and me (and, I have little doubt, Joe Biden, too), such a thought didn’t cross our minds as we played with toy soldiers on the floors of our rooms as kids. I can still […]

by Shafique Khokhar Courtesy PIME Asian News A mob attacked an Ahmadi place of worship in Kotli district, sending the caretaker to hospital with serious injuries. Previously, they had given the authorities an ultimatum to demolish the Ahmadi mosque. Despite CCTV footage, police have yet to make any arrests. We want justice,” Ahmadi leader told […]

Nick Turse courtesy The Intercept A formerly secret map from AFRICOM shows a network of 29 U.S. military bases that stretch from one side of Africa to another. Nick Turse LAST MONTH, ABOUT a dozen al-Shabab fighters infiltrated the perimeter of a military base in Manda Bay, Kenya. One of them took aim with a rocket-propelled grenade, […]

PIERRE SIMON  Courtesy The Unz Review Since the establishment of a Zionist home in Palestine in the early 20th century, Jewish settlers have massacred tens of thousands of Palestinians – mainly women, children and the elderly – whose lands and homes they have plundered and robbed with impunity.[1][2][3] Never in the history of mankind has a […]

Geopolitical Economy Report Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the “boogeyman” anti-China propaganda that Trump ally Tucker Carlson spewed in his interview in Moscow, while also mocking Tucker for applying to join the CIA. Ben Norton documents the former Fox News host’s long history of pushing for war on China.