It’s a strange world we live in where Russia produces more sensible and realistic economic analysis than the US or the UK. China? Filled with brilliant, hard working people, to be sure, but the government there has a long record of masterful baloney manufacturing. Is China the non-stop financial juggernaut […]
Geopolitics
American security guards charged with killing two civilians in Afghanistan had criminal records, a Senate committee has heard. They were guilty of assault, battery and drug-taking in the past. The men were in Afghanistan with a subsidiary of the private security firm Blackwater, previously accused of murdering civilians in Iraq.
You would think that a Nobel Peace Prize winning President Barack “mau mau” Obama would jump at the opportunity to save lives and ensure peace by accepting a new Iranian government peace offerer. instead, “Mau Mau” sent his minions Robert Gibbs to reject Iran ‘s offer. “Time and patience is […]
[ Palestine, Iraq, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Pakistan, North East India, Georgia, The Ukraine. Seen from space – it’s like one big Asian Land Grab. This is exactly why you don’t let greedy civilian asshole corporates run your foreign policy. ] Russia will have to respond as it is concerned by NATO’s […]
It’s a pretty provocative message, especially in a country where the intelligence agencies seem to do whatever they please. But what good has the CIA ever done? They’ve been implicated in supporting the drug trade, they’ve trained and encouraged other countries to engage in torture, they’ve engaged in illegal coups […]
24 February 2010 While focusing on issues the mainstream media ignores and while digging for information the UK government would rather you didn’t know, Press TV journalist Amina Taylor searches for the truth behind the headlines of the most important stories in the UK. In this episode of “The Big […]
Mamoon Alabassi compares two “Iraq war” movies, “Avatar” and “Hurt locker”, and argues that, for Iraqis who feel de-humanized by the media, the positive depiction of non-humans in “Avatar” is welcome: “If some humans can relate to the ‘humanity’ of non-humans in fiction, then surely they would find it easier […]
[ … and what a giant balls-up that was ] “We were supposed to win. We didn’t have a back up plan.” Video: https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/804.html
A UN nuclear watchdog report suggests Iran could be developing a nuclear bomb, apparently confirming long-held suspicions in the West. But Tehran denies the claims, again insisting that its atomic intentions are peaceful. Michel Chossudovsky, who’s from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, […]