Political news and opinions from Winter Watch writers and from around the Web.
This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called ‘independence’ of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the […]
Trump Nominates Critic of Global Institutions to Lead World Bank By David Lawder | 6 February 2019 REUTERS — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the World Bank Group should be led by U.S. Treasury […]
By Kyle Rempfer | 6 February 2019 MILITARY TIMES — The Defense Department wants U.S. Special Operations Command to do more than the traditional leaflets-and-loudspeakers approach to information warfare, a senior Pentagon official said this week. “We need to […]
By Susannah Black, Matt Loftus and Jake Meador | 13 February 2018 MERE ORTHODOXY — 2017 was the year of the deep state, a year when the inner workings of the American system were exposed to the […]
By Glenn Greenwald | 3 February 2019 THE INTERCEPT — NBC News published a predictably viral story Friday, claiming that “experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of […]
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents By Rachel Botsman | 21 October 2017 WIRED […]
The head of the CDC has been forced to resign after her potentially illegal ties to big pharma and big tobacco were just exposed in a scathing report. By Matt Agorist | 1 February 2018 THE […]
Researchers found that 77 percent of Wikipedia articles are written by 1 percent of Wikipedia editors, and they think this is probably for the best. By Daniel Oberhaus | 7 November 2017 MOTHERBOARD — When Wikipedia was […]
By Ronan Manly | 2 February 2019 ZERO HEDGE (BULLION STAR) — In early November 2018, it first came to light that the Bank of England in London was delaying and blocking the withdrawal of 14 […]
More than 600 women around the world have already accused John of God of sexually abusing them during healing sessions with the medium By Matt Roper | 30 January 2019 MIRROR — He was Brazil’s […]
Lawmaker claims Russian airplane has come to whisk it away Gold accounts for much of the country’s remaining hard assets By Patricia Laya and Andrew Rosati | 29 January 2019 BLOOMBERG — Venezuelan lawmaker Jose Guerra dropped […]
Robert Miller, president of the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees, said that the board would no longer be reciting the pledge, claiming that it was ‘steeped in expressions of nativism and white nationalism.’ […]
By Tyler O’Neil | 28 January 2019 PJ MEDIA — In recent years, the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has faced a slew of lawsuits regarding its deceptive practice of branding mainstream conservative and Christian […]
Editor’s Note: Kay Stevenson is a guest contributor to Winter Watch who lives four miles from the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona. By Kay Stevenson The federal government has not paid U.S. Border Patrol agents since the […]
By Molly Harbarger | 25 January 2019 THE OREGONIAN — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency Friday over 31 cases of measles in the state. The declaration allows the state to request medical resources from […]
Second ad for Gantz includes ‘kill counter’ related to 2014 Gaza War By Jason Ditz | 21 January 2019 ANTIWAR — Running for parliament in the upcoming April vote, former Israeli Army Chief Benny Gantz has […]
By Fabiola Sanchez | 21 January 2019 ASSOCIATED PRESS — Venezuela plunged deeper into turmoil Monday as security forces put down a pre-dawn uprising by national guardsmen that triggered violent street protests, and the Supreme […]
Israeli lobby in the US managed to infiltrate all aspects of government, thus formulating US policy directly. By Ramzy Baroud | 8 March 2017 AL JAZEERA — Mere days after Donald Trump won the US presidential […]
By Matt Agorist | 15 January 2019 THE FREE THOUGHT PROJECT — Over the weekend, members and owners of multiple alternative media outlets gathered in Houston, Texas to discuss the heavy hand of corporate and government […]
By Josh Schaffer | 17 January 2019 THE NEWS & OBSERVER — Hyo Suk George lived legally in the United States for nearly 20 years before she voted in her first election, coaxed to cast […]
By John Solomon | 14 January 2018 THE HILL — For months now, the Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly has been working on a revision to its guidelines governing how, when and why prosecutors can obtain the records […]
By Caitlin Johnstone | 9 January 2018 MEDIUM — The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being promoted day in and day out by western mass media has had two of its major stories ripped to shreds in […]
By Glenn Greenwald | 14 January 2018 THE INTERCEPT — Last week, the New York Times reported that the FBI, in 2017, launched an investigation of President Trump “to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible […]
By Andrew Cheetham | 11 January 2018 DAVID ICKE — Australian nurses and midwives who dare to speak out against the dangers of vaccinations on social media or in person will be prosecuted, the Australian government […]
Meet one Tomas Åberg, a steaming lump of subhuman excrement who Sweden’s Marxist elites chose to bestow the honorific of “National Hero.” Now, you might be asking, “How does a piece of shit (PoS) become […]
9 March 2018 RT — Some €10 billion of Libyan government funds, frozen as part of sanctions against the late Muammar Gaddafi’s inner circle, has mysteriously disappeared from a Belgian bank somewhere between 2013 and 2017, […]
In Brief The Facts: Anthony Bourdain allegedly committed suicide a couple of months ago. He was no stranger to politics or speaking his mind about his view of the Clinton family, Barrack Obama and other […]
By Caitlin Johnstone | 6 January 2019 MEDIUM — On the first of April last year I published an article titled “Ignore The Words Of US Presidents. Watch Their Actions Instead.”, about Trump’s claim that his administration […]
Law enforcement leaders say civil asset forfeiture is a necessary tool for fighting crime, but several lawmakers see it as a violation of Americans’ civil liberties. Texas legislators are poised to take up the issue […]
By Caitlin Johnstone | 2 January 2019 MEDIUM — A journalist with NBC has resigned from the network with a statement which highlights the immense resistance that ostensibly liberal mass media outlets have to antiwar narratives, […]