Editorial comment:The video attached contains about 45 minutes of pre-election talk. If you prefer to avoid that, move forward to 45+ minutes into the video, where Tariq Ali comes in.  - SON Amid ongoing U.S.-Pakistani tensions and fears of a military coup in Pakistan, we are joined by British-Pakistani political... » read this article

If you really want to put an end to terrorism, you have to begin by no longer participating in it. ~ Noam Chomsky. Or more sharply: Stop killing their babies, as put by Georgia State law professor Natsu Saito Based on the book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens by... » read this article

Is Iran the new Japan – 70 years after the Pearl Harbour incident that led to a US declaration of war and an unspeakable nuclear nightmare? Two concurrent articles on Global Research deserve close reading because taken together they suggest that history is in danger of repeating itself, with even... » read this article

Editor's Note: This is Petras' grey matter and quill at their best. Nearly every day someone says something like this to me, "What a crazy world we live in." Well yes, insanity rules at the top, with fear, chaos and a sense of impotence trickling down fracture any order that... » read this article

WHAT IS the background and the significance of Barack Obama's decision to withdraw troops from Iraq by the end of the year? WE ARE 10 years into the U.S. project in Iraq, counting the planning, which began just after 9/11. Even before the invasion, the Bush administration had envisioned that... » read this article

Shark-like, they rise fast but risk killing the world economy, concludes a business professor.   Given the state of the global economy, it might not surprise you to learn that psychopaths may be controlling the world. Not violent criminals, but corporate psychopaths who nonetheless have a genetically-inherited biochemical condition that... » read this article

Arundhati Roy speaking at the People's University in Washington Square Park, New York, held at Judson Memorial Church, 16 November 2011 Tuesday morning, the police cleared Zuccotti Park, but today the people are back. The police should know that this protest is not a battle for territory. We're not fighting... » read this article

For years journalists have warned of imminent banana extinction. "Get bananas while you still can," wrote New Scientist over five years ago. "The world's most popular fruit ... is in deep trouble," it went on to say, adding that the banana would probably be out of supermarkets by 2013, and... » read this article

Only a few days ago we re-published the article, "Papandreou Is Right to Let the Greeks Decide" That was Sven Böll's opinion, writing for Der Spiegel. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou threw a monkey wrench into the gears of the EU machine this week and in just 3 days Merkel... » read this article

Only a couple of centuries ago, owning another person — slavery, that is — was considered a normal thing to do. But, starting in the late 18th century, slavery was abolished throughout Europe and the Americas (in 1834 in Upper Canada) after the rise of an abolition movement based on... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We have published many articles that explain the plans of Global Corporate Empire for a new world government, a world central bank, single world currency and one world military in the past. But in this video, David Icke breaks it down all down with exquisite clarity and provides... » read this article

One day in September, Isidro Rivera Barrera, a contract worker and labor organizer who was campaigning at an Ecopetrol refining facility in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, was reportedly gunned down outside his home. His death was met with the usual silence—just business as usual in a country with one of the world’s... » read this article

On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares. From America to Asia, from Africa to Europe, people are rising up to claim their rights and demand a true democracy. Now it is time for all of us to join in a global... » read this article

. . . . The cork has popped, the cat is out of the bag, People are coming out of the woodwork, coming out of the closet, some are going out of their minds, some are fed up with going hungry being out of luck, out of touch, on the... » read this article

  The gathering momentum of protest in the US is charting new old territory. It is time to reflect on how we got here. The current crisis of capitalism is textbook Marx. Greedy capitalists, craven politicians, scheming bankers, dispossessed masses. It is also textbook Lenin. Imperial wars awakening the masses... » read this article

Creating terror groups in order to justify a fight against terrorism has become the modus operandi of the US government in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Europe and more recently in Africa. A repeat of the disorder and pandemonium generated inside Afghanistan is in the works for the continent of Africa. The... » read this article

Remember when times were good? Well, at least they were good in North America. If you weren’t poor. Or disabled. Or black. Or Latino. Or a woman. In fact, things were actually so good that it could still work out for you even if you were disabled, or black, or... » read this article

October 2, 2011 - Last evening about 1000 people occupied Dewey Square near South Station in Boston. Most people were in their 20’s, I am happy to report. The generation maligned for being apathetic is rising up angry! The crowd’s feelings were expressed by a woman who addressed them saying,... » read this article

24 September 2011 Three years after the Wall Street crash of 2008, finance ministers, central bankers and economists assembled in Washington for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank present a picture of perplexity and fear as the crisis spins out of control and lurches... » read this article

The "arc of instability" includes 97 countries. A startling number of these nations are in turmoil, and in every single one of them, Washington is militarily involved. It’s a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called “the arc... » read this article