USAmerica’s Epiphany Moment
– Alastair Crooke
The blanketing canopy pressing down across the globe of TINA (there is no alternative) is rupturing. The fabric is tearing at the seams. Now, with the U.S. courts having abdicated their role in adjudicating suits in connection with the 3rd November …
The Spanish Crown and the intelligence service
– Rafael Fraguas
The financial dealings of Juan Carlos I recently investigated by the Swiss and Spanish criminal justice authorities have led to the emergence of a fundamental yet previously unknown feature of Spanish politics: the links that have been maintained …
A scion of Zionist aristocracy wants to quit the Jewish people. Will Israel let him?
Meeting Avraham “Avrum” Burg
– Ravit Hecht رافيت هيشت רוית הכט
Why Avraham Burg, who has served as Knesset speaker, interim president and head of the Jewish Agency, is asking Israel to annul his registration as a Jew Avraham Burg has been a man of many titles. A scion of one of the aristocratic families of the religious-Zionist …
Assange saga: Real journalism is criminally insane
– Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonderwalls. The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in thesis, on his way to – conditional – freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first anniversary of the start …
What’s next for Julian Assange?
A conversation on the future of journalism and freedom of speech
– Various Authors – Autores varios – Auteurs divers- AAVV-d.a.
On Monday, a UK judge blocked the US request to extradite Julian Assange. Earlier on today (Wednesday), the same judge denied Julian Assange bail. Investigative journalist Stefania Maurizi, Brian Eno, Roger Waters, Yanis Varoufakis, Ken Loach and …
The ruins of an empire
Spain and Western Sahara
– Montserrat Galcerán
Spain, this great nation, a member of the EU and the UN, not to mention NATO, has been incapable of effectively using its power to bring about the referendum on self-determination in the Sahara, a referendum that it promised and that has been endorsed …
Gaia and Chthonia, the two inseparable faces of our Earth
– Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν
The Italian philosopher Agamben takes us on a poetic and etymological journey back to antiquity to finally bring us back to our coronaviral present. The future has an ancient heart
The ‘Venus of Willendorf’, a statuette from the Upper Palaeolithic …
Soleimani geopolitics, one year on
– Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
One year ago, the Raging Twenties started with a murder.
The assassination of Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), alongside Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander …
U.K. judge blocks Assange’s extradition to U.S., citing mental health concerns
– Elian Peltier – Megan Specia
U.S. officials want the WikiLeaks founder to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. But a judge in London ruled that he was at extreme risk of suicide.
Supporters of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange celebrated outside the Central Criminal …
Next US administration signals tough policy on Saudi Arabia
– Seth J. Frantzman
In only rare instances historically do countries that enjoyed a long close relationship shift so quickly.
One of the most interesting US foreign policy developments in the last decade has been the slow shift from a policy of close cooperation with …
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