By Ron RIDENOUR [In this piece, Ron Ridenour interviews Steve James, the director of A Compassionate Spy, and Joan Hall, Ted Hall’s wife. See Ron’s review of the documentary here.—Editors] Q Joan, how do you think the world would look today had Ted Hall not given...
Russia is being accused of a whole range of crimes here and on the other hand she is not allowed to have appropriate legal defence. “Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” ― Franz Kafka, The...
By Vijay PRASHAD On Nov. 21, Mali’s interim prime minister, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, issued a statement on social media announcing the government’s decision “to ban, with immediate effect, all activities carried out by [French] NGOs operating in Mali.” This came a few...
Europe is destined to become an economic backwater. It has ‘lost’ Russia — and soon China. And is finding it has lost its standing in the world, too, Alastair Crooke writes. Something odd is afoot in Europe. Britain recently has been ‘regime washed’, with a strongly...
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago in the publication of the Chelsea Manning leaks to call for the Biden...
What fool was it who said that the collective West, the fabled City on the Hill whose “values” are universal and binding on all, is amoral? A greater untruth was never uttered. Of course, the West espouses and acts according to specific moral principles. But these...
Controversial New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust By Ron RIDENOUR The provocative documentary “A...
By Patrick COCKBURN I used to consider myself something of a specialist on corruption in Iraq, so I was not too surprised when I read of Iraq’s “theft of the century” when $2.5 billion was stolen from the tax authorities in Baghdad in a well-planned operation in which...
The EU is beginning to wake up and realise that its relationship with the U.S. has reached farcical levels of master and slave. Remarkably, the EU is beginning to wake up and realise not only that it is more servile to the U.S. than ever before, but in fact the...
Although Doyle instances a lot of criminal and other cases that supports his thesis, he does not dwell on them which is a good thing as many of them are revolting. Andrew Doyle’s The New Puritans: How The Religion of Social Justice Captured The Western World begins...
In America, we get what we pay for W.J. ASTORE A question I hear often concerns the lack of a strong antiwar movement in America. The last large protest against war I remember preceded the Iraq invasion in 2003. The nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s was...
Europe is destined to become an economic backwater. It has ‘lost’ Russia — and soon China. And is finding it has lost its standing in the world, too, Alastair Crooke writes. Something odd is afoot in Europe. Britain recently has been ‘regime washed’, with a strongly...