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Afghanistan, Commentary, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Militarism, Palestine, Russia, Soviet Union, Ukraine, United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Craig Murray: We Are the Bad Guys

August 13, 2024

Those of us in the West must resist our own governing systems, or we are complicit.

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Analysis, Campaign 2024, European Union, Immigration, Politics, U.S.

Did Trump Signal an Attack on Migrants?

August 13, 2024

Speaking with Elon Musk, Trump said, “We have to take out” hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants inside the U.S. What did he mean? We asked Grok.

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Biden Administration, Israel, Palestine, U.S.

Gaza’s Coming Ceasefire Talks; Iran Says Won’t Hit Israel With Deal

August 13, 2024

Aseel Saleh reports on comments by Hamas and Israeli officials ahead of ceasefire talks scheduled for later this week.

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Commentary, Health Care, Public Health, U.S.

US Medalist Scores Free Healthcare at the Olympics

August 13, 2024

After the medical care she’s received in Paris, U.S. rugby player Ariana Ramsey says she is ready to push for universal free healthcare in her home country. 

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Israel, Japan, Militarism, Palestine, Soviet Union, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

SCOTT RITTER: The Murder of Others

August 13, 2024
An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the US dropped the second nuclear bomb on the country.

The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.

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Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine, U.S., United Nations, War Crimes

Palestinians Blame US for Massacre in Gaza

August 12, 2024

The Palestinian Authority says it holds the Biden administration responsible for the attack on the al-Tabin school due to its financial, military and political support for Israel.

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, U.S. State Department

US to Iran: Only Israel May Escalate

August 12, 2024

The imperial spin machine operates by reversing victim and victimizer, aggressor and defender — claiming to act in self-defense while existing in a continuous state of attack, writes Caitlin Johnstone.

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Biden Administration, Climate Change, Commentary, Labor, U.S.

Labor & the Southern ‘Battery Belt’

August 12, 2024

Ben Carroll reports on an EV manufacturing boom that is bringing heavy investment into the South and, in the process, creating a new battleground for union organizing.

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Commentary, History, Israel, Palestine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Israel’s Been Like This Since 1948

August 12, 2024

We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel, writes Jonathan Cook. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin.

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American Empire, Analysis, Commentary, Legal, Media, Press Freedom, U.S. Congress, U.S. Justice Dept.

Caitlin Johnstone: US Escalates War On Dissent

August 10, 2024

The U.S. empire has been doing everything it can to restrict the flow of inconvenient information as public opposition to its criminality swells at home and abroad.

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Commentary, Intelligence, Iraq, Legal, Russia, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., Ukraine

WATCH: Scott Ritter — The FBI Raid on My Home

August 9, 2024

Scott Ritter has released the following video explaining the F.B.I.’s search and seizure at his home in New York State on Thursday.

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CN Condemns FBI Raid on CN Columnist’s Home

August 9, 2024

Consortium News strongly condemns the raid on the home of its columnist Scott Ritter by the F.B.l. on Thursday as a serious threat to press freedom.

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Israel, Palestine, United Nations, War Crimes

Palestinians Demand ICC Arrest Warrant for Smotrich

August 9, 2024

Comments this week by the Israeli finance minister about starvation were seen as an “explicit admission of adopting and bragging about the policy of genocide.”

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Australia, Commentary, Israel, Legal, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom, Propaganda

Ruling Challenges Media Stance on Palestine

August 8, 2024

Major media face a reassessment of their Israel coverage after the ICJ judgement, writes Mick Hall.

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Biden Administration, Campaign 2024, Commentary, Politics, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

On the Call Not to Protest in Chicago

August 8, 2024

According to LA Times editorialists, Chicago in 1960 and 1964 had good protesters who “worked within the party apparatus.” The 1968 protesters, they say, were bad and “set back the cause,” writes Riva Enteen.

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Biden Administration, Campaign 2024, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Protests, U.S.

Caitlin Johnstone: Kamala Harris & Genocide

August 8, 2024

The cause for which Aaron Bushnell gave his life in the most agonizing way possible is being intentionally subverted by people who claim to care about justice and human rights.

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Analysis, Commentary, Election 2016, Intelligence, Media, Russia, Russiagate

RAY McGOVERN: Decay, Decrepitude, Deceit in Journalism

August 8, 2024

Journalism is not like war: In war the victors get to write the history; in today’s journalism, the losers write it.

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Biden Administration, Campaign 2024, Commentary, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Racism, U.S., U.S. Congress

AIPAC Hijacks US Elections

August 7, 2024

Medea Benjamin responds to the pro-Israel lobby’s second “win” of the U.S. campaign season.

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Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, U.S.

Poll: Americans Oppose Sending US Troops to Defend Israel

August 7, 2024

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll comes as Israel braces for retaliatory attacks from Iran and its allies following an assassination campaign last week.

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Commentary, Economy, Environment, Income Inequality, Labor, Trump Administration, U.S.

Nationalizing US Rail

August 7, 2024

There is little hope for any improvement of the U.S. rail system so long as it remains in the hands of the irresponsible and unaccountable Class I robber barons, writes Adam Barrington. 

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Colonialism, Commentary, Human Rights, Race Relations, Racism, Right Wing, United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

What Is Behind England’s Riots

August 7, 2024

Is there a migration crisis in England? Yes, there is, says John Wight. And it’s not the fault of the migrants.

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