Mike Norman Economics

If you care to search for Robert Fisk on twitter, the attacks on his reputation and integrity at this very moment from achieve nothing neo-con trolls and media lackeys are astonishing. He is in Douma – they are at their desks.It also says a great deal about our media that one of the greatest living British journalists is employed only by The Independent, a newspaper which has become extremely marginal, while other genuine greats like Jon Pilger, with a fantastic pedigree, do not have access...

Syrian air defense systems have been activated in response to a missile attack apparently targeting Shayrat Airbase in Homs province, state media SANA reports.Up to 10 missiles were destroyed by the Syrian Armed Forces, a military source told Sputnik. The Syrian air defenses managed to intercept some of the projectiles, according to a SANA reporter. Meanwhile, the Al Mayadeen news outlet is claiming that all the projectiles were intercepted and inflicted no physical damage or casualties at...

Look at how disgusted the news anchor is when the congressman being interviewed says he doesn't understand why Assad would launch a chemical weapons attack when he was winning the war and it would draw the US in even further.  She says, 'So you believe the Russian?', with anger, as if you can't question the script, even if it is full of holes. [embedded content] A congressman actually dares to question the officially sanctioned fake news narrative about the Syrian chemical weapons attack...

Zero HedgeCalifornia Rejects Trump Order To Deploy National Guard To Southern Border Tyler Durden Sputnik International Academic on UK Media Crackdown on Assad Supporters: 'Extraordinary Attack' Interview with Dr. Tara McCormack, lecturer in international relations at Leicester University

From the lips of the man who doesn't bullshit, Russian FM Lavrov briefing on the Skripal incident that was carried by Russia 24 TV: Sic Semper Tyrannis Russian FM Lavrov speaks on the Skripal Posioning Issue. Samples examined by Swiss Spiez LabsJ

The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump’s orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies. Called a “Crime against Peace,” this violation (whose perpetrators, under the precedent set in the Nuremberg Trials that followed...

Bolton vs. Mattis. Mattis won — this time. It's far from over.Sputnik InternationalTrump Wanted to Target Russian, Iranian Objects in Syrian Strike - Reports

The country is divided into two hostile camps, a division as much geographic as ideological. On one side are the big cities, the centers of progressive politics and home to social movements for women, for gay people, for minorities, and to an unprecedented wave of immigrants. Many of the immigrants look and dress very differently from residents of longer standing, marking them as followers of a different religious faith. Many are refugees from an unprecedented wave of war and civil war....

You've probably heard about the Gulf Stream weakening and the potentially "catastrophic" effects.This climate scientist says not to worry.Note that the piece doesn't say that climate change is not occurring or claim that humans are not involved. It just says that the conventional wisdom about the Gulf Stream is wrong.Earth Institute — Columbia UniversityClimate mythology: The Gulf Stream, European climate and Abrupt ChangeRichard SeagerLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University...

An expert assessment of the recent missile attack on Syria and what's next.Sic Semper TyrannisAn interim post on Syria ... (Editorial) by PLCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National...