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Ancient DNA set to rewrite human history
The worlds of ancient and modern DNA exploration have collided in spectacular fashion in the past few months. Last week saw the publication of a long-awaited draft genome of the Neanderthal, an archaic hominin
Read More »Rumsfeld’s Attempts to Rewrite Himself on the Right Side of History Are Laughable
By Gary Brecher | The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his advice on Afghanistan. I’ve been following the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from Go
Read More »Lest We Forget: Could the First World War Have Been Stopped?
By George Monbiot | Like most people of my generation, I grew up with a mystery. I felt I understood the Second World War. The attempt to dominate and destroy, to eliminate the people
Read More »Reining in the influence industry
By David Miller | It comes as no surprise that the European Commission is relaxed about Peter Mandelson’s meetings with the aluminium magnate, Oleg Deripaska, at a time when the trade commissioner was party to
Read More »The lies of Hiroshima are the lies of today
By John Pilger | In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the ‘progression of lies’ from the
Read More »Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward
The Progressive | America must move from the errant, retributive justice of 9/11 to a healing, restorative process of truth and reconciliation. Before the Congress adjourns, I will bring forth a new proposal for the
Read More »The Big Outcome of the ’60s: The Triumph of Capitalism
By Slavoj Zizek | In 1968 Paris, one of the best-known graffiti messages on the city’s walls was “Structures do not walk on the streets!” In other words, the massive student and workers demonstrations of
Read More »‘Truthers’ blame US and Britain for the Holocaust
Andrew Anthony In Salman Rushdie’s soon-to-be-published novel, The Enchantress of Florence, one of the characters is Niccolò Machiavelli, the original dark prince of power politics. Il Machia, as he is called, is portrayed as
Read More »History of Presidential Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Sobercircle.com George W. Bush There has been no shortage of controversy when it comes to the younger years of our current president. Described as irresponsible and a risk-taker, Bush has admitted to an excess
Read More »Lost Lands, Forgotten Realms
By Dr. Bob Curran RINF Alternative News Atlantis! Lemuria! Shamballha! Shangri-La! The very names conjure up images of sunken cities or forgotten lands hidden in the impenetrable jungle or amongst mountain peaks somewhere beyond
Read More »“The Amero” Is Real?
By Hal Turner Three weeks ago, I published a brief snippet on the front page of my web site reporting the governments of the US Canada and Mexico are conspiring in secret to merge
Read More »Vital Lockerbie evidence ‘was tampered with’
The Observer Fragments of bomb timer that helped to convict a Libyan ex-agent were ‘practically carbonised’ before the trial, says bankrupt Swiss businessman The key piece of material evidence used by prosecutors to implicate
Read More »Lockerbie case: new accusations of manipulation of key forensic evidence
I.P.O. Information Service flamesong On 4 August 2007 Dr. Hans Koechler received from Mr. Edwin Bollier, head of the Swiss-based company MEBO AG, a copy of the German original of an Affidavit, dated 18
Read More »Miami Five’s defense exposes errors and jury intimidation during trial
Granma International flamesong 21st August 2007 On August 20, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta heard convincing allegations by the legal team defending the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States.
Read More »New questions about Jim Morrison’s death
By ANGELA DOLAND The official story goes like this: On the last night of Jim Morrison’s life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart
Read More »Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
[Robin Lindley is a Seattle attorney and writer who covers international affairs, human rights, politics, law, medicine, the media, and arts. He was a chair of the World Peace through Law Section of the
Read More »How Hitler cheated death in 1943 coup… thanks to the Allies
DER Führer Adolf Hitler ist tot. These six words, announcing the death of the Nazi leader, should have brought the Second World War to an end in November 1943. The sentence was part of
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