The Queen and Her Legacy:  21st Century Britain Has Never Looked So Medieval

If the Queen’s job was to rebrand the empire as Commonwealth, transmuting the Mau Mau massacre into gold medals for Kenyan long-distance runners, Charles’ job will be to rebrand as a Green Renewal the death march led by transnational corporations.

Jonathan Cook
By Jonathan Cook
Queen Elizabeth II Feature photo

Anyone in the UK who imagined they lived in a representative democracy – one in which leaders are elected and accountable to the people – will be in for a rude awakening over the next days and weeks. TV schedules have been swept aside. Presenters must wear black and talk in hushed tones. Front pages are uniformly somber. Britain’s media speak

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After His Mysterious Death, the Media Scrambles to Get its Story Straight About White Helmets Founder James Le Mesurier

Almost immediately after Le Mesurier’s alleged plunge to his death, reports began to emerge of tampering and the removal of details about the controversial “private security” operative’s career.

Vanessa Beeley
By Vanessa Beeley
James Le Mesurier Feature photo

On November 11, 2019, the British founder of the notorious White Helmets, James Le Mesurier, died in Istanbul, Turkey. The circumstances surrounding his death immediately elicited a flurry of Turkish and corporate media reports, many of them contradictory, as the details of his final hours came to light.  Mark Urban, the diplomatic editor at BBC

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Conspiracy Theories: Jeffrey Epstein’s Uniquely American Death in Jail

There does not have to be a conspiracy for people to be permitted space to grapple with this outcome in the context of a system that constantly grants rich and powerful people total impunity for their crimes.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Jeffrey Epstein feature photo

The United States holds more of its population in prisons and jails than any other country in the world. Suicide is one of the biggest causes of death in U.S. jails and hit a high of 50 deaths for every 100,000 inmates in 2014. That makes the death of Jeffrey Epstein, who was involved in a sex trafficking ring, a uniquely American death,

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: A Death in the Family for Millions of South Africans

“I am not Mandela’s product,” Winnie Madikizela-Mandela once told an interviewer. “I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.”

Jon Jeter
By Jon Jeter

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Youth Day, as it is known in South Africa, is a national holiday commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising against the white-minority apartheid government. Arriving almost an hour late to the rally at a soccer stadium in the all-black township, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela approached her ex-husband’s

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Body Of Iraq WMD Whistleblower Exhumed, Cremated After Calls To Investigate His Death

The body of a chemical weapons expert who was critical of the UK’s use of “weapons of mass destruction” as a pretense for war, was unearthed and cremated.

Jack Burns
By Jack Burns
Dr. David Kelly. (Photo: EPA)

This past week, the Kelly family decided to unearth the corpse of their beloved family member and cremate his remains. In 2003, Dr. David Kelly, formerly a United Nations (UN) weapons inspector and member of the Ministry of Defence (UK), walked into the woods near his home, ate a couple dozen opiates, slit his left wrist, and died. That was the

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Thousand Flock To Havana To Honor Fidel Castro

Cubans will pay final respects on Monday and Tuesday to the late president and revolutionary, known simply as “El Comandante” or “El Jefe” on the island.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
A student stands at attention holding images of Fidel Castro at the university where Castro studied law as a young man, during a vigil in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of U.S. presidents during his half century rule, died Friday at age 90. (AP Photo/ Dario Lopez-Mills)

Thousands of Cubans are flocking to Havana’s Revolution Square Monday to pay final respects to revolutionary leader and former President Fidel Castro, who passed away Friday night at the age of 90. A long line of supporters snaked through the vast square as Cubans walked by a memorial to the former leader. Some mourners were in tears, others

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