MIDTERM WARNING: We Are Being Set-up for Another Fake War
Sporting the traditional department-issued pearl necklace and looking ever worse for wear: the USA's unofficial War Secretary. 21st Century Wire August 11, 2010 Editor’s Note: As autumn gradually rolls...
View ArticleWORLD FOOD: A TRANSITION NEEDS TO BEGIN NOW
By Andrew McKillop 21st Century Wire August 18, 2011 Media treatment of the major long-term issues of global food and energy does us all a big disfavour by sidetracking and diluting these issues, with...
View ArticleObama’s Great African Military Safari
By Patrick Henningsen 21st Century Wire October 18, 2011 In 2008, Barack Obama made history as the first black President in the United States of America. Three years later, he has made history again,...
View ArticleDéjà Vu – Martin Luther King On Our Wars Yesterday, And Today
In the epic Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus attacked Socrates’ position that the idea justice is an inherent and equal right, claiming that it is just (by nature) that the strong rule over the weak....
View ArticleThe Forgotten Wounded of Iraq
Ron KovicTruthdigThirty-eight years ago, on Jan. 20, 1968, I was shot and paralyzed from my mid-chest down during my second tour of duty in Vietnam. It is a date that I can never forget, a day that was...
View ArticleLaos and Panama: Two US Wars Of Aggression You Probably Never Heard Of
John VibesANTIMEDIA While there are only a few wars that are recognized by the public education system and mainstream media, the US has been involved in hundreds of different wars and invasions all...
View ArticleThe “Arab Spring”: Seduction of the Delusional Imperialist Left
21st Century Wire says… This article was written by Donnchadh Mac an Ghoill for Zero Anthropology in 2013 but is still hauntingly relevant today particularly with reference to the myriad of Left...
View ArticleSUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Hearts and Minds’ (1974)
This week’s documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE. The following piece was a highly impactful, Academy Award-winning documentary about the Vietnam War. A number of other subsequent...
View ArticleSUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Tough Love’ (2016)
This week’s documentary film screening, curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE. “Phuc Tong has quite an unusual family, multiple adopted kids and they all owe him their lives. This Vietnamese man...
View ArticleSUNDAY SCREENING: ‘Air America: The CIA’s Secret Airline’ (2000)
Our weekly documentary film, curated by our editorial team at 21WIRE. EDITORS NOTE: At times, this film might sanitise the CIA infamous operation in Southeast Asia, just short of glorifying it, but...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Cities: How Fake News in the War Against ISIS Distorts Your...
Martin Jay 21st Century Wire How influenced do you think you are by western media and its biased reporting in the Middle East? Here’s a simple test. When you think of Aleppo in December being taken by...
View ArticleJohn Pilger, Vanessa Beeley on Sputnik with Neil Clark – The Age of Media...
Child of extremist fighters in Al Waer, Homs being evacuated peacefully under Syrian government Amnesty & Reconciliation agreement. Many of these families have since returned to Homs from Jarablus...
View ArticleThe Killing of History ~John Pilger
The lone survivor of an all-women anti-aircraft battery near Hanoi. Most were teenagers. (Photo: John Pilger 1975) John Pilger One of the most hyped “events” of American television, The Vietnam War,...
View ArticleThe ‘New Cold War’– A Rehash of Old Rivalries
What will the “new cold war” look like? (Illustration by Brad Holland) William Blum ICH The anti-Russian/anti-Soviet bias in the American media appears to have no limit. You would think that they...
View ArticleThe Military-Security Industrial Complex: Brainwashed Public. Endless Wars...
US Army soldiers on patrol in Afghanistan. (Photo: US Army. Source: Wikicommons) Richard Galustian Global Research Why has it become acceptable that we and particularly our children take for granted...
View ArticleRemembering John McCain
U.S. Senator John McCain died Saturday after a long battle with brain cancer. McCain was 81 years old. In his final hours, the self-proclaimed “maverick” Republican from Arizona turned down further...
View ArticleFLASHBACK: Vietnam War and The Heroin Epidemic, and a Case of Déjà Vu
It’s a case of déjà vu The parallels between US military conquests in Vietnam and Afghanistan are uncanny. Afghanistan has since overtaken Vietnam as the longest war in American history. During both...
View ArticleAmerica’s Lost War in Afghanistan: Proof Emerges How US Gov’t Deceived Public
By Stephen Lendman On Monday, a surprising Washington Post report headlined: “The Afghanistan Papers — A secret history of the war. At War With the Truth,” saying: “US officials constantly said they...
View ArticleIRAN: Soleimani Was Pompeo’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident
This week, two countries came dangerously close to war. From the onset of this crisis, the Trump Administration insisted that there were imminent attacks being planned by the Iranians, and there was...
View ArticleCentral Vietnam: An Enduring Legacy of How Far Washington is Willing to Go
My Lai: the old tree that survived, while the village and people around it did not (Photo: Andre Vltchek © 2020) Andre Vltchek 21st Century Wire My Lai. My Son… This story is short, but it is telling....
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