Are you depressed? Have you lost interest in things you used to enjoy? Are you eating or sleeping too much? Big Pharma hopes so! The push to convince people who are dealing with job, family, relationship and money problems that they actually have “depression” has resulted in almost one in four American women in their 40s and 50s taking antidepressants. Ka-ching.
Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abunimah says Palestinians need to be able to rebuild independently of the neoliberal government in Ramallah
Tornado bombers from Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) have carried out their first attacks against the Islamic State in Iraq, according to the Ministry of Defense (MoD).
The Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem addressed the UN General Assembly on Monday, September 29, during a fifth day of debate as UN member states convened for the assembly’s 69th session.
Ukraine’s southeastern regions could cooperate with Kiev in the spheres of security and economy, but a political union is out of the question, Andrei Purgin, Deputy Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said in an interview with Russian Channel One on Tuesday.
US-led coalition airstrikes destroyed grain silos and other targets in parts of northern and eastern Syria dominated by Islamic State, killing civilians while only wounding ISIS fighters, according to an organization monitoring war in Syria.
As a US-led coalition continues to strike ISIL strongholds inside Syria, President Barack Obama says “we are not going to stabilize” the country under President Bashar al-Assad.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Monday that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a far greater threat to the world than Islamic State militants.
The administration had a marginally better legal excuse for striking targets of the Islamic State (IS) group, its main adversary, in Iraq than it did in Syria.
Common sense dictates who is responsible for shooting MH17 out of the sky over a conflict zone in Ukraine.
The face of Hong Kong’s student democracy movement came under furious attack by a pro-Beijing newspaper today, upping the ante in the fight over the former British colony’s political future.
Ukrainian troops abduct a pregnant mother of seven children who is an internal refugee in the country, leaving her children to fend for themselves.
Lost among the talk of Ukraine’s Civil War and the ISIL threat is the coming Russia vs. West clash in Moldova.
The US-led coalition’s airstrikes have targeted the major gas plant in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
A mother from a village in Donbas Oblast talks about her son who was tortured and murdered by Ukrainian troops.
A prominent EU legislator known for her pro-Ukraine stance claims she was barred from entering Russia on Thursday in what could constitute the first such incident in the history of the European Parliament.
The media is a key tool in the battle for hearts and minds. But a new bestseller by a German author reveals some details on journalism that would be considered too outlandish, even in a spy novel.
One of Scotland’s most well-known painters, Peter Howson, who was the British Government’s “official war artist” during the 1993 Bosnian Civil War, is to hand back an honor he received from the Queen in protest at Britain’s airstrikes against the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Iraq and England’s opposition to Scottish independence.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly today that ISIS and Hamas are part of the same ‘poisonous’ tree. The PM went on to claim Israel has photographic evidence that Hamas has used human shields to…
As if aging in America isn’t hard enough these days, a new government report has uncovered that seniors are facing yet another barrier to a secure retirement: their student debt. Once thought to be a young person’s issue, new data released by the Government Accountability Office shows that older Americans are also finding themselves buried under the weight of their student loans. The data helps paint a much larger picture of the overall economic insecurity that too many of our country’s seniors face every day.
One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
Listening to Poroshenko a few days ago and then to Obama at the UNGA can leave no doubt whatsoever about the fact that the AngloZionist Empire is at war with Russia. Yet many believe that the Russian response to this reality is inadequate. Likewise, there is a steady stream of accusations made against Putin about Russia’s policy towards the crisis in the Ukraine. What I propose to do here is to offer a few basic reminders about Putin, his obligations and his options.
Obama’s September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington’s double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
Having nearly provoked war over Ukraine with nuclear-armed Russia, the Obama administration has now launched a full-scale crusade in Iraq and Syria against the evil Saracens of ISIS.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday accused the United States of resorting to “military interference” to defend its interests, in a veiled reference to the air campaign in Syria.
One more mass grave has been found in a village in eastern Ukraine, say self-defense forces. The site was located days after OSCE mission confirmed the discovery of three mass burial sites in areas recently abandoned by Kiev forces.
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino has given his backing to a plan to pay Italian families €30 a day to host migrants, as the country’s immigration centres struggle to cope with the influx of arrivals.
Investigators are questioning hundreds of refugees after videos emerged of security guards abusing asylum seekers in western Germany. One video shows a refugee being forced to lie in his own vomit.
After the local elections and the Europeans, Sunday’s Senate ballot made it three historic poll successes out of three for France’s far-right National Front in 2014. Is the presidential palace the next stop?
The threat was made at a high-level teleconference meeting, details of which have been revealed for the first time by the Central Bank governor, Dr Patrick Honohan.
Ferguson’s top cop should resign, the best apology from him will be not words but the arrest and prosecution of the police officer who killed their son, the parents of Michael Brown said as tensions in the St. Louis suburb escalated again this week.
He says, with finality: ‘The US/EU propaganda against Russia is really ridiculous and I can’t accept it.’
George Galloway’s statement during a special parliamentary session to decide whether or not to join U.S. led air strikes on Islamic State militants in Iraq.
Britain is set to join the air campaign against Isis in Iraq, but, going by David Cameron’s speech to the UN General Assembly, the Government has no more idea of what it is getting into in this war than Tony…
The ISIL or IS threat is a smokescreen. The strength of the ISIL has deliberately been inflated to get public support for the Pentagon and to justify the illegal bombing of Syria. It has also been used to justify the mobilization of what is looking more and more like a large-scale US-led military buildup in the Middle East. The firepower and military assets being committed go beyond what is needed for merely fighting the ISIL death squads.
Georgia is seeking to normalise relations with Russia but without doing any harm to its own sovereignty and independence, Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili said on Saturday.
The former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent a decade in jail after challenging the Kremlin, says he would be ready to lead Russia if called upon.
Did security expert and former Mossad agent Juval Aviv let the truth about the identity of perpetrators of the London bombings slip during this interview with Fox News (at 2:05).
Around 130 tractors blocked the RN12 highway for over two hours in Landerneau on Wednesday in the latest farmer protest against the Russian ban on EU food imports that was prompted by EU sanctions over Ukraine. Farmers set fire to…
Washington is allocating an additional $40 million to render assistance to the so-called moderate Syrian opposition.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is considering increasing Canada’s direct military involvement in the fight against the Islamic State terror army in Iraq.
US government lawyers have invoked Iraq’s right to self-defence and the weakness of the Assad regime as twin justifications for US bombing in Syria, in a feat of legal acrobatics that may reopen questions over its right to intervene in the bitter civil war.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has called on Western countries not to lift the sanctions on Russia until Kiev captures the land controlled by pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine.
Following the US President’s speech at the UN, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov was puzzled with Barack Obama’s ranking of international threats: deadly Ebola virus top, followed by so-called Russian aggression and ISIS in Syria and Iraq only third?
Russia is calling for an international investigation into the discovery of burial sites with signs of execution at locations where the Ukraine National Guard forces were stationed two days earlier.
Miners working at the Kommunarskya Mine near the village of Kommunar discovered the corpses of civilians brutally murdered by Kiev forces and buried in shallow graves. The bodies were clothed in civilian attire and appeared to those snatched from nearby villages by…
Turkish troops used tear gas to disperse a crowd of Kurds seeking to enter Syria to defend their ethnic kin there against Islamic State, whose advance in the past week has driven tens of thousands to flee.
It’s time to do away with the word “homeland.
British schools should consider offering students STD tests during lessons as a blanket national policy, public health experts claim. A recent scheme to offer students such tests in Sussex has roused sharp criticism from parents, however.
US and EU interference in other countries’ affairs is unacceptable, Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Andrei Kelin said on Monday.