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BRICS Under Attack: The Empire’s Destabilizing Hand Reaches Into South Africa

An undercurrent of political manipulation pulses beneath the surface of popular South African demonstrations organized around legitimate grievances. But who’s pulling the strings? And why?

This article is part of a series on Western meddling to foment unrest and destabilize BRICS nations in an effort to ensure the continuation of Western economic and political control over the Global South. The first part, focusing on Brazil, can be found here. Still to come: BRICS under attack in Russia, India, and China. NEW YORK --- (Analysis)

Arizona’s Primary Voting Fiasco Foretells Further Disenfranchisement in General Election

Three years after Voting Rights Act was gutted, U.S. is witnessing ‘a renaissance of voter disenfranchisement’.

بواسطة Common Dreams
This May 3, 2010 file photo shows a "vote here" sign near a polling place open for early voting in downtown Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Following widespread disenfranchisement during Tuesday's Democratic primary in Arizona, civil rights activists are warning that such debacles could be a harbinger of things to come during the general election in November. "As we've seen in the Arizona and North Carolina primaries, the Shelby decision has ushered in a renaissance of voter

How The IMF Turned Ukraine Into Europe’s Colonial-struck ‘Liberia’

“Although Liberia has one of the weakest economies in the world, it lags only slightly behind Ukraine with respect to a number of macroeconomic parameters,” and Forbes supported its argument with some anemic statistics (failing however to mention that Liberia’s 85 percent unemployment rate is far worse than Ukraine’s, even today).

Condoleezza Rice

Earlier this month while delivering a public lecture in Kiev, “The Challenges of an Ever-Changing World,” former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an inspiring remark for anyone who might have been thinking that life in Ukraine was bad: “You should go to Liberia where the standard of living is much lower, and then you will be

Terrorism Struck Middle East 64 Times In March With No Mention From Western Media

In reality, terrorism strikes Muslim nations daily where groups like ISIS are committing a genocide against Muslims, Arab Christians and Kurdish Muslims, but the media rarely gives that a mention even though in March alone, over 64 terrorist attacks struck the heart of the Middle East.

بواسطة RT
Mideast Iraq

RT America's Watching The Hawks compares western media coverage of the Brussels terror attack to the daily terror that strikes Muslim nations in Africa and the Middle East daily. Host Tabetha Wallace explains how terror strikes in European nations is actually a rare occurrence, but when it happens, the media and politicians are quick to blame

USDA okays Monsanto’s herbicide-resistant GMO corn w/o permits

These resistances allow farmers to grow plants that aren’t destroyed by herbicides produced by the same companies that designed the genetically-modified crops themselves.

بواسطة RT
Ethanols Environmental Damage Illinois

The US Department of Agriculture will end regulation of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn that is engineered to resist the company’s herbicide, the federal regulator said. Farmers will now be able to plant the corn strains without permits. The action, announced by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Wednesday, applies to

Daniel Ellsberg: New Cold War With Russia Could Escalate To Nuclear Threats

The Pentagon Papers whistleblower explained that the new Cold War is about trade, not human rights: ‘We wanted to freeze Russia out of it.’

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin pose for members of the media before a bilateral meeting Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, at United Nations headquarters. (Sergey Guneyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

  MINNEAPOLIS --- MintPress News is proud to host “Lied to Death,” a 13-part audio conversation between famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and social justice activist Arn Menconi. Menconi wrote that these interviews are a “mixture of historical, political science and Dan’s sixty-year scholarly analysis as a former nuclear planner for Rand