Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal , immortal Hague fugitive Henry Kissinger says the US is acting in a crazy and irrational way that has brought it to the edge of war with Russia and China: Mr. Kissinger sees today’s world as verging o...

Britain has played a key role in NATO forward troop deployments and training exercises on Russia’s borders. With war underway, the UK sends billions in arms, special forces, and volunteers to ensure escalation. In an effort to evade his domestic woes, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson—who may so...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There’s a scene in The Usual Suspects where Kevin Spacey tells the fable of the mysterious Keyser Soze and how he became a crime lord. “One story the guys told me, the story I believe, was from his days in Turkey,” he says. “There was a gang of Hung...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary  which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines. The Ukraini...

Click here or the picture below to listen to the podcast: Chris Hedges Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for  The New York Times,  where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for ...

How did The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone become two of the most aggressive smear factories of the US neoliberal establishment, and did US intelligence play a role? This article was part of a three part series originally published in The Defender on US intelligence infiltration of neoliberal media ...

The corporate network’s cave-in followed a coordinated wave of outrage from the Ukraine lobby and pressure from the Pentagon This report was originally published by Antiwar.com CBS News retracted a documentary it briefly released on Sunday after pressure from the Ukrainian government. The original ...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The US empire uses “freedom and democracy” as a pretext to conquer and kill in exactly the same way European colonialists used the pretext of spreading Christianity and civilization to save the godless savages. And it does so for the exact same reasons...

The contenders for Boris Johnson’s crown swore fealty to Israel just at it unleashed a savage attack on Gaza. It was further proof that politicians in the UK, like those in the US, see Israel as a defining issue in their fight for highest office.

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ During the furor over Nancy Pelosi’s incendiary Taiwan visit last week, I was watching an appearance by Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp on the show Rising which brought up the under-discussed point that US officials going to Taipei is actually a continuation o...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Times has published an article titled “ Lady Gaga embodies everything China fears ,” subtitled “The singer’s uncompromising individuality makes her a serious threat to the mass imposition of cultural conformity through censorship,” and its contents...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ You can always tell how important narrative control is by watching the way people react when their control of the narrative is jeopardized. Empire apologists are raging at Amnesty International for pausing its aggressive facilitation of western imp...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Alan MacLeod has a new article out with Mintpress News showing how most of the supposedly independent “fact-checking” organizations which Facebook has partnered with to police the information people are allowed to see on the platform about the war in...

Hello all! As part of my continual effort to publish my work in as many forms of media as possible, I’m putting out the inaugural (and possibly only depending on how well it’s received) edition of Treazine , the treasonous zine which collects my favorite articles, poems and Notes from the past mon...

By Chris Hedges / Substack Click the image below to listen to the podcast: Chris Hedges Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for  The New York Times,  where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and ...

New documentary discloses the ways western publics are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism through the Pentagon’s influence over thousands of films and TV shows.

An unusual and significant court ruling entitles YouTube's main competitor, Rumble, to obtain long-hidden internal documents on Google's search engine manipulations. Listen above. Read more

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a brief but diplomatically corrosive visit, the aftereffects from which may be felt for years to come. Toward the end of  her speech alongside Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, Pelosi’s brain underwen...

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ If someone criticizing the most dangerous agendas of the most powerful and destructive government on earth looks like “Russian propaganda” or “Chinese propaganda” to you, it’s because you yourself have been brainwashed by propaganda. ❖ The western pr...

Defaming journalism on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, The Guardian and its NATO-funded sources out themselves as the real “network of conspiracy theorists.” On June 10th, The Guardian’s Mark Townsend published an article headlined “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified....