Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon discuss the “ed-tech” systems eroding minors’ privacy rights and discriminating against students of color.
Chris Hedges Report: Surveillance Education
Vijay Prashad: Swimming in Mud in 5th Circle of Hell
Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the “far right of a special type” — a right that is intimately tied to liberalism — cultivates a politics of anger.
Caity Johnstone: Today in Imperial Recklessness & Insanity
Predictably, Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to this decision by shrieking about antisemitism. He’s doing this because he doesn’t have anything resembling a real argument in his defense, and neither does anyone else.
Netanyahu’s Arrest Warrant Also Indicts US Policy
U.S. neocons’ teamwork with the Israel Lobby has marked one of the greatest global calamities of the 21st century, writes Jeffrey Sachs.
Israel: Beginning of the End
Like every guerrilla war from Algeria to Vietnam, the Palestinians will win the political struggle for liberation as Israel implodes from within, writes Stefan Moore.
At Last an Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu
A panel of ICC judges said there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister are guilty of “the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare” and other “crimes against humanity.”
Biden Administration, Commentary, Election 2024, NATO, Obama Administration, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon
Biden’s Lust for War
The U.S. is waging war on Russia without a congressional declaration and in violation of treaty that requires the consent of the United Nations, writes Andrew Napolitano.
Craig Murray: US-Israeli Barbarity in Lebanon
The bombs that have killed more than 3,500 Lebanese, the majority of them women and children, were made in the U.S. and supplied for that purpose, along with the aircraft that dropped them.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Israel, Lebanon, Media, Middle East, Palestine, U.S., United Kingdon
The Guardian’s Anti-Semitism
The media constantly deploy an anti-Semitic trope of crucial use to the Western power elite — that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington, writes Jonathan Cook.
Chris Hedges: Lee Lakeman & the Whoredom of the Left
The wretched of the Earth are reduced in the neoliberal model to serving the desires and fetishes of the wealthy and the privileged.
Analysis, Britain, Commentary, France, Germany, International, NATO, Pentagon, Russia, U.S., Ukraine
Ukraine Fires US Missiles at Russia Risking Wider War
The Pentagon refuses to say whether Joe Biden even informed it of his reckless decision to allow the strikes, which the DoD has strenuously opposed, reports Joe Lauria.
Afghanistan, Assange extradition, Australia, CN Live!, Media, Press Freedom, Prisons, War Crimes, WikiLeaks
McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
Column, Commentary, Cyprus, Election 2024, Greece, Immigration, Israel, Palestine, Turkey, U.S., Ukraine
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Pro-Trump Mood in Greece
The Greeks don’t know anything about American domestic policy; nor do they care. But they do care about war and immigration.
Australia, Biden Administration, Colonialism, Commentary, Human Rights, Militarism, New Zealand, U.S., United Kingdon
Vijay Prashad: Islands That Want to Live
Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region.
Craig Murray: US Tries to Pound Lebanon Into Submission
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein arrives in Lebanon as his country carries out mass killing of civilians through its colonial settler proxy. The Lebanese should throw shoes at him.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty
Three quarters of the rest of the countries in the world do not have the death penalty. They see it as barbaric and immoral, which it is.
UK Arms Exports Find Loopholes in Israeli Embargo
British arms exports are continuing to support Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza because Labour has not implemented a complete embargo, writes John McEvoy.
American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Pentagon, Politics, Russia, U.S., Ukraine
On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes
With his party decisively beat at the polls, the rejected president is gambling with regional security to preserve his ‘legacy’ and to saddle the incoming president, who wants to end the war, with a major new crisis, writes Joe Lauria.
American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, Free Speech, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Trump Administration
Caitlin Johnstone: Suppressing Speech to Aid Israel
Trump literally standing before an Israeli flag and vowing to kill free speech for Israeli interests makes a lie of everything the “MAGA movement” says it stands for, exposing it for the scam it’s always been.
Deliberate Lies About Amsterdam Violence
News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news, writes Jonathan Cook.