A Uyghur separatist group that helped to topple the government of Bashar al Assad has declared its intention to return to Xinjiang in order to conduct military operations against the People's Republic of China. The announcement suggests that Washington and its allies are preparing to open another front in a war that has already plunged... Read More

The early November detention of Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, indicted in a federal national security court in the Eastern District of Virginia on two counts of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act,� was largely downplayed in the national media. He was arrested by the Federal... Read More

When westerners see ‘enemy’ governments fall, or civil wars erupt, they are led to think they are the geopolitical equivalent of a natural event. Nothing could be further from the truth The long-harboured aspirations of the US, Turkey and Israel to topple the Syrian government, mainly through their rebranded al-Qaeda allies, succeeded at lightning speed.... Read More

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence (DNI) will cause shockwaves in and among the 18 fiefdoms that now comprise the U.S. intelligence community. Gabbard will be fighting an uphill battle if she tries to herd those 18 cats into a cohesive whole and restore integrity to intelligence analysis.... Read More

Does anyone really think that Iran threatens the United States? It’s only plausible if you can be convinced by a congenital liar and war criminal like Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or by a buffoon like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. My head was still throbbing recently due to the damage done while watching... Read More

The stated purpose of our alternative media website is to provide convenient access to "interesting, important, and controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American mainstream media." In fulfillment of this mission, we regularly cover highly-controversial topics only rarely presented in other publications, while also moderating the resulting discussions with a very light hand. As an... Read More

Two weeks ago I published a long article on the JFK Assassination, pointing to the overwhelming evidence that Kennedy's own successor Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson had very likely been a central figure in the plot. I closed the essay by quoting several early paragraphs from a different article that I had published more than... Read More

The media’s villainy will soon be erased because it writes the script telling us what’s going on in the world It is only right that we all take a moment to celebrate the victory of Julian Assange’s release from 14 years of detention, in varying forms, to be united, finally, with his wife and children... Read More

Israel, Gaza and West Bank should be seen as an opening of the New Cold War. In what can be considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson – the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down... Read More

“The unity of Russia’s multiethnic society,� President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Trade Union Congress on Thursday, “is the main fundamental condition of our success. In this connection, and based on the initial results of the investigation, we have grounds to believe that the main goal of those who masterminded the bloody and heinous terrorist... Read More