Palestinians Welcome China’s New Middle East Role, but It is Not Mediation They Need
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. In fact, it already has. In the case of…
The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces, but They Will Not By Themselves Change the World
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In 2003, high officials from Brazil, India, and South Africa met in Mexico to discuss their mutual interests in the trade…
US ‘Fears’ Ukraine Is Too ‘Casualty Averse’
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com The New York Times reported on Friday that US officials “fear” Ukraine has become “casualty averse” as Ukrainian commanders have not been pushing as hard…
I Crashed an Anti-Syria Lobby Meeting Where They Pushed For a New Caliphate and Starvation Sanctions
I crashed the meeting of a lobbying front that ended the life-saving General License 2023 on Syria, and is now pushing to extend Washington’s economic war for another 8 years.…
Palestinian Journalist’s Agonizing Detention Spotlights Israel’s Crackdown on Free Press
By Jessica Buxbaum / MintPress News On July 15, Palestinian journalist Basel Adra found himself apprehended by the military after documenting an Israeli settler’s assault in the occupied West Bank.…
Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
This is a sermon I gave on Sunday Aug. 20 in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture…
Most of My Friends Want Donald Trump’s Head on a Spike Paraded Down Pennsylvania Avenue
By Blake Fleetwood / Original to ScheerPost Putting Trump in jail will not solve America’s problems, as the mainstream media so unanimously suggests. In fact, this Trump mob feeding frenzy…
Who Will Control Africa — and to Whose Benefit? (w/ David Hundeyin)
By Diego Ramos and Max Jones / Original to ScheerPost On this episode of Journalists for Sale, we tackle West Africa and the recent coverage it has been drawing due…
Niger is Far From a Typical Coup
Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year, writes Vijay Prashad. Only…
Moderna Paid 400 Million to NIH
By John Campbell / YouTube Dr. John Campbell comments on Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) questioning of Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel about Moderna’s $400 million payment to the National Institutes of…
Latin America Rising (w/ Ollie Vargas)
By Alan MaCleod / MintPress News South of the border, an entire region is rising. Latin America is electing radical governments, dismantling cold-war era power structures and moving towards integration…
Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later
Cubans individually had consumed only 438 grams of animal protein per month in 2022, and in May 2023, only 347 grams; recommendations call for ingestion of 5 kg monthly. Not…
Zelensky Holds Court With Ukraine’s Most Notorious Neo-Nazi
Western media has dismissed evidence of neo-Nazi influence in Ukraine by citing President Zelensky’s Jewish heritage. But new footage published by Zelensky shows the leader openly collaborating with a fascist…