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By Nicola Nasser*
The appointment of Robert Malley as White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region is not considered a sufficient indicator that there will be any radical change in U.S. strategy despite the campaign launched against the U.S. by the Zionists due to its openness to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Syria and Iran.
On 6 March, President Barack Obama’s administration appointed Robert Malley, the former senior director of the National Security (…)

“Genocide in Iraq Volume II. The Obliteration of a Modern State”, by Dr Abdul-Haq Al-Ani and Tariq Al-Ani (Clarity Press, 2015) is a carefully documented, must-read account of the Zionist-backed US Alliance destruction of Iraq and the killing of millions of Iraqis over the last quarter century for oil, US hegemony and for military dominance of the Middle East by a nuclear-armed, genocidally racist Apartheid Israel. This is a damning case that everyone should read to prevent recurrence (…)

THE CIA AND AMERICA’S PRESIDENTS Some rarely discussed truths shaping contemporary American democracy
John Chuckman
Many people still think of the CIA as an agency designed to help American presidents make informed decisions about matters outside the United States. That was the basis for President Truman’s signing the legislation which created the agency, and indeed it does serve that role, generally rather inadequately, but it has become something far beyond that.
Information is (…)

Our time to act has come! Transnational actions against the European Central Bank’s opening: March 18th 2015 in Frankfurt
2015 began with something unheard of. The people in Greece stood up against all threats from Europe and elected a new left government. This, after 5 years of ruining the country of Greece, where the people lived in constant struggle against the humanitarian crisis and social destruction. A government was elected to stand up to the European institutions, rather than to (…)

Indo-Fijian Rajendra Prasad’s book “Tears in Paradise. Suffering and struggle of Indians in Fiji 1879-2004” tells the story of Indian indentured labour (“5 year slaves”) taken to Fiji from British-occupied India in the period 1879-1916 and brutally exploited on British- and Australian-run sugar cane plantations. The last “5 year slaves” were finally released from bondage in 1920, 87 years after slavery was supposedly banned in the British Empire. Today effective Third World slavery is (…)

WILL WISCONSIN’S IGNORANCE BECOME AMERICA’S IGNORANCE . . . AGAIN?
Ever since America’s politicized, corrupt, unethical, corporate-controlled Supreme Court decided the cases of Citizens United vs. FEC (2010) and McCutcheon vs. FEC (2014), I have written numerous articles for Pravda.Ru describing how these two decisions destroyed the ability of working class Americans to exercise their once fundamental right to freedom of speech and unleashed a torrent of unbridled political corruption that (…)

"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dylan Thomas
Chances are good that this century will end like Mad Max: offended but armed gangs of men in Ray-Ban sunglasses race all-terrain vehicles across desert landscapes and kill anything they can, while the cities burn in the background
The killers of Paris were these types of men, while Pegida participants in Dresden would like to be. One faction (…)

ISIS 101 What’s really terrifying about this threat
John Chuckman
ISIS certainly is not what a great many people think that it is, if you judge what they think by what our corporate press proclaims incessantly.
Judging by what ISIS actually does and whom its acts benefit, its clandestine associates, and the testimony of some witnesses, ISIS is a complex intelligence operation. Its complexity reflects at least in part the fact that it serves the interests of several countries and that (…)

Russia’s Putin and Israel’s Netanyahu seem to be comfortable with each other if the photographs of them together are any indication. Ever since the spy Jonathan Pollard gave American secrets to Israel and Israel gave those secrets to the former Soviet Union for the release of Jewish scientists and 750,000 Jews to migrate to Israel, Israel and Russia have taken advantage of American secrets. Putin and Netanyahu share a dislike of President Obama. Netanyahu’s ancestors were part of the (…)

THE GRAND ILLUSION
The truth is that the risk of an American being killed by terrorism is close to zero, having been calculated at 1:20,000,000
John Chuckman
In the years since 9/11, American police alone have killed at least twice as many Americans as died in that single large event, the annual toll of police killings being somewhere between 500 and 1,000, the variation owing to many such events going inaccurately reported by police.
Each year, somewhere between 30 and 40 thousand (…)