As soon as Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years, in still apartheid South Africa, U.K. officials lobbied him for business interests, declassified files show, reports Mark Curtis
After US warships and aircraft were expelled by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the South China Sea and Taiwan Straits
In a report on Saturday, the prominent Spanish publication El Pais reported the most direct evidence yet that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) illegally spied on Julian Assange when he was an internationally-recognised political refugee in Ecuador’s London embassy
The massive Nova Kakhovka Dam was blown up Tuesday morning, with Kiev and Moscow trading blame for the attack
China has been responding to the presence of US warplanes and warships near its coast
There is a much less centralized network of factors which tips the scales of media coverage to the advantage of the U.S. empire and the forces which benefit from it
The WaPo story doesn't mention Seymour Hersh's report that says the US blew up the pipelines
The Biden administration has been less and less concerned about the risk of provoking a direct clash between NATO and Russia
By satisfying an extremist religious constituency, Ramzy Baroud says the prime minister is turning Israel into a country with leaders determined to institute a religious war
Iran reopened on Tuesday its embassy in Saudi Arabia after seven years of closure, nearly three months after the two countries agreed to restore bilateral ties under a Chinese-brokered deal
Democrats frequently talk about compensation for slavery and Jim Crow in the form of reparations for black Americans. Indeed, House member Cori Bush recently proposed $14 trillion as a good place to start
Russia claimed that a recent offensive launched by the Ukrainian military has been thwarted by Russian forces, while Kiev remained low-profile on its operation
The single economic space of East Asia will cease to exist in the near future
The possibility that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will likely ask the US to support the UK's global credentials in high tech areas during his visit to Washington will further reinforce the impression that Britain is in decline
A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think
Two climbers from China gave up their attempt to reach the summit of Mount Qomolangma in order to save a dying Chinese woman who then only agreed to cover $4,000 of the $10,000 rescue fee
The speech delivered by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Shangri-La Dialogue has garnered vastly different reactions from various countries
Macron thinks NATO should stay in the North Atlantic
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