Earlier this week, Turkey demanded the removal of a photo from an exhibition in Switzerland. The photo claims that Erdogan, who was Prime minister at the time, was directly involved in the murder of a teenager during anti-government protests in 2013. The demand has been rejected. The Vice Mayor Guillaume Barazzone told Swiss media: “Geneva will not allow any country to be influenced in this matter.
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
It’s all over except the shouting. That is, the primary election season effectively ended last night and now the actual shouting match between Hillary and The Donald begins.
This will surely be the most entertaining election in US history, and probably the most pointless, too. After all, Hillary wants to use government to make Government Great Again. And Trump promises to use government to make America Great Again.
A Washington media watchdog has downgraded Israel’s press to “partly free” in its annual report, accusing the Israeli regime of using media outlets to spread propaganda to the public. The report cited the “growing impact” of the tabloid right-wing newspaper Israel Hayom, saying the newspaper was nothing more than a mouthpiece for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
The Third World War is currently being fought. How long before it moves into its hot stage?
Washington is currently conducting economic and propaganda warfare against four members of the five bloc group of countries known as BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech
Paul Craig Roberts
Readers and foreign news organizations are asking me the meaning of Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech.
On the surface, his speech is contradictory. Trump says he will rebuild US military might so that America will always be first. Yet Trump emphasizes that “we want to live peacefully and in friendship with Russia and China.”
In a multi-polar world, there is no first country.