Ignoble cause: Why Orwell’s ‘jihad’ was nothing like Al Qaeda’s ‘International Brigades’ in Syria

UK Guardian journalist George Monbiot recently made some pretty outrageous claims, equating the international civilian efforts to block the rising tide of fascism in the 1930s with today’s ridiculous Western intelligence-run ‘jihad’, a.k.a. the ‘War on Terror’, which plainly runs interference for imperial greed abroad and instituting police state measures at home. George Orwell et …

John Kerry is a conspiracy theorist? U.S. Secretary of State says Oswald didn’t act alone in assassination of President Kennedy

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told NBC’s Tom Brockaw earlier this month that he didn’t believe Oswald acted alone on November 22nd 1963. Has the Obama administration decided to break the U.S. government’s 50-year-silence on ‘the greatest murder mystery of the 20th century’? Not likely, Kerry quickly backtracked on his comments. But they bring …

Manufacturing civil war in Egypt: ‘Mystery’ snipers massacre Morsi supporters

A week after the Egyptian Army deposed President Mohamed Morsi, supporters of the ousted leader were massacred yesterday during a sit-in protest at an “elite army base” in Cairo. So far over 50 have been reported dead, with hundreds injured. The Muslim Brotherhood is blaming the Egyptian army and police, but a military spokesman has said …