When the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ withdrew from a Huawei-sponsored Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19 webinar - the ethical grounds it allegedly did so on were ill-defined at best. The NABJ seemed to hint it was actually pressure on it from various other groups to cancel the webinar that spurred the decision and not any concerns...

How big-business stopped cheap ventilators from making it to market, leaving nations vulnerable for over a decade to crisis shortages. When coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 began dominating headlines, it was accompanied by fears of potential shortages of critical medical equipment including personal protective equipment...

Big-Pharma - guilty of lying, cheating, stealing, bribery, and a history of exposing the public to dangerous and even deadly drugs - is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 "vaccine." Would you trust your health to these criminals? Coronavirus Disease 2019 or "Covid-19" hysteria is sweeping the globe - with mass media-induced public...

Legislation circulating in the US Congress threatens to withdraw military support from Saudi Arabia. This is not because Saudi Arabia is an absolute dictatorship which still severs heads off in public. It is not because Saudi Arabia arms and funds some of the worst terrorist organizations on Earth - including Al Qaeda, its Syrian franchise Tahrir al-Sham - previously known...

Following the news regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19 we'd be led to believe humanity faces an unprecedented crisis - and judging by the socioeconomic damage being done - it is not that difficult to believe some sort of unprecedented crisis is indeed unfolding. Yet the sense of urgency imposed upon the general public - prompting lockdowns...

When is a terrorist group not a terrorist group? Apparently when US foreign policy requires it not to be. This is precisely the case regarding Al Qaeda's Syrian branch - Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS - the most recent rebrand of Jabhat Al Nusra - which currently occupies the northern Syrian governorate of Idlib. The US corporate media has recently attempted...

The Washington Post - an inveterate keystone of US foreign policy propaganda - made a surprising admission recently. The people of Crimea - allegedly "annexed" by the Russian Federation - are vastly satisfied under Moscow's governance. The Washington Post article titled, "Six years and $20 billion in Russian investment later, Crimeans are happy with...

CNN in its article, "US conducts airstrikes against multiple Iranian-backed militia sites in Iraq," would report: The US carried out airstrikes on Thursday against multiple Iranian-backed militia sites in Iraq, according to the US Defense Department. The strikes come one day after the US assessed an Iranian-backed group was responsible for a rocket attack on a base where coalition...

Turkey's ongoing fighting in northern Syria's Idlib governorate was - from the beginning of recent escalations - clearly a continuation of Washington's wider now 9 year-long proxy war against Damascus. Whatever gains Turkey had made in terms of reducing its role in Washington's proxy war and repairing ties with Syria's allies Russia and Iran - were clearly...

Fighting in northern Syria has escalated as Syrian forces retake the last remaining bastions of foreign-funded militants and encircle, cut-off, and in some cases catch in the crossfire their Turkish backers. Turkey had been making some promising steps in the right direction since Washington's disastrous proxy regime-change war in Syria began unraveling - yet it still maintains...

"Long Live Democracy!" cried "student" protesters at Thailand's Thammasat University as local and Western media organizations reported "hundreds" gathered to decry the disbanding of Thai political party, Future Forward. However, the Western media's eager support for the small mob complete with quotes of support...

A deal that is entirely unacceptable to one of its principal parties isn't a deal at all. In the case of the US-proposed "Middle East peace plan" - unsurprisingly endorsed by the US and Israel and few others - everything about it is designed to sabotage peace and perpetuate conflict - perhaps even expand it. The London Guardian in its article, "Palestinians cut...