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Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Civil Rights, Commentary, Constitution, Election 2024, Human Rights, Legal, Press Freedom, U.S. Justice Dept., U.S. State Department, United Kingdon, War Crimes, WikiLeaks

Craig Murray: UK Legal Shambles in Case of Assange

March 30, 2024

The British establishment continues to move inexorably towards ordering the WikiLeaks’ publisher’s extradition at the time of its choosing.

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Biden Administration, Civil Rights, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Racism, Trump Administration, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, War Crimes

History Says the Palestinians Will Remain

March 30, 2024

Jared Kushner joins the chorus calling for Israel to expand its occupation to Gaza’s waterfront, writes Vijay Prashad on Land Day. If history is any judge, it won’t happen.

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Commentary, Israel, Palestine

Caitlin Johnstone: Ghost Town

March 29, 2024

In Ghost Town, we do not look at Gaza. We look at everything except Gaza.

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Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine, U.N. Security Council, United Nations, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, War Crimes

ICJ Issues New Order in Genocide Case Against Israel

March 29, 2024

The World Court cited “exceptionally grave” developments, especially the “spread of famine and starvation,” in once again ordering Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza.

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Africa, Burkina Faso, Economy, France, Libya, Mali, Niger, United Kingdon

Britain’s Hidden Helicopter War in Niger

March 29, 2024

As Niger expels U.S. troops, Declassified UK reveals British helicopters operated a taxi service for French forces in the uranium-rich African state, Phil Miller reports.

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Biden Administration, Civil Rights, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine

Not a Single Palestinian Is Free

March 29, 2024

Manal A. Jamal on the complex system of laws, policies and regulations that Israel has put in place to curtail rights and freedoms.

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Assange extradition, Britain, CN Live!, Commentary, Constitution, Legal, U.S. Justice Dept., WikiLeaks

WATCH: CN Live! — The Assange Dilemma for the US

March 28, 2024

Watch the show on the High Court’s ruling this week on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Guests: Chris Hedges, Craig Murray, Marjorie Cohn and Bruce Afran. (With timeline.)

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American Empire, Ancient World, Biden Administration, Commentary, Israel, Media, Militarism, Palestine, Satire, U.S. Congress, Ukraine

Patrick Lawrence: Late-Imperial Duplicities

March 28, 2024

There is nothing new about lying to Americans to get the empire’s business done.

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American Empire, Analysis, Assange extradition, Britain, Commentary, Israel, Legal, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, WikiLeaks

Slowly Suffocating Assange, Like its Other Enemies

March 28, 2024

The U.S. empire hunts not like a tiger, killing its prey with a fatal bite to the jugular; but more like a python: slowly suffocating the life out of it until it perishes, writes Caitlin Johnstone.

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Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Civil Rights, Commentary, Constitution, Ecuador, Julian Assange, Mike Pompeo, Press Freedom, Surveillance, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., United Kingdon, War Crimes, WikiLeaks

Chris Hedges: A Mockery of British Justice

March 27, 2024

British courts for five years have denied due process to Julian Assange as his physical and mental health deteriorates. That is the point of his show trial.

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Censored: Keir Starmer’s Emails About Israeli War Crimes Case

March 27, 2024

The Crown Prosecution Service won’t release files on how the Labour leader blocked a former Israeli official’s arrest over alleged war crimes in Gaza in 2008, John McEvoy reports.

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New: Consortium News Introduces International Editions

March 27, 2024

Consortium News on Wednesday formally launches separate international editions of its publication in 103 languages, including German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Swahili, Arabic, Hindi, Russian and Chinese.

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Assange’s ‘Reprieve’ Is Another Lie

March 26, 2024

The U.S. has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so, writes Jonathan Cook. The real goal is to keep him endlessly locked up.

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Books, Commentary, Israel, Julian Assange, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom, U.S. State Department, WikiLeaks

Chris Hedges: PEN America Self-Destructs

March 26, 2024

In May 2013 Hedges resigned from PEN America when it appointed former State Department official Suzanne Nossel to run it. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state, including on Julian Assange.

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Assange extradition, Britain, Legal, WikiLeaks

Assange’s Fate Awaits US ‘Assurances’

March 26, 2024

The High Court on Tuesday rejected six Assange grounds for a new appeal, agreeing he had only three legitimate arguments but that the U.S. could nullify them with new “assurances,” reports Joe Lauria.

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Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, U.N. Security Council, United Nations, War Crimes

Draft UN Report Calls for Arms Embargo on Israel

March 25, 2024

The U.N. Human Rights Council’s advance, unedited report calls for an immediate arms embargo on Israel and international protection for Palestinians in the occupied territories, among other recommendations.

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Biden Administration, Israel, Palestine, U.N. Security Council, U.S., United Nations

WATCH: US Abstains on UN Ceasefire Resoluton

March 25, 2024

The first resolution calling for a ceasefire was passed at the U.N. Security Council after months of trying when the United States on Monday abstained rather than issue another veto.

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China, Intelligence, New Zealand, Surveillance, U.S.

Secret US Intel Operation in New Zealand Exposed

March 25, 2024

A former New Zealand prime minister says Washington is the likely culprit behind a signals intelligence system that, according to a report, existed for nearly a decade without the government knowing.

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Australia, CN Live!, Israel, Middle East, Military Industry, Palestine

WATCH: Nabbed Stopping Military Shipment to Israel

March 25, 2024

Consortium News was in Port Botany in Sydney, Australia on Sunday to capture these dramatic images of police aggressively arresting protestors trying to block export of military aid to Israel. 

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Analysis, Biden Administration, Commentary, France, Intelligence, International, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, Ukraine, WMD

VIPS MEMO: The French Road to Nuclear War

March 25, 2024

France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people – or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden.

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Commentary, Israel, Media, Palestine, Propaganda, United Nations, War Crimes

How Western Media Built the Case for Genocide

March 22, 2024

From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalized accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are serving as propagandists, writes Jonathan Cook.

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