Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?
Vijay Prashad: Meanwhile, 100s of Millions of People Die of Hunger
Craig Murray: UK Hypocrisy on Its Arrests of Journalists
By rebuking the U.N. for its legitimate interest in cases involving U.K. citizens while throwing open the door to Israel, the Starmer regime has gone beyond Orwell or Kafka.
US Veterans Fast Against Israel’s Starvation of Gaza
Fasters are demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under U.N. authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel, Marjorie Cohn reports.
Jonathan Cook: How to Starve a Population to Death
In Five Easy Steps: The danger in an age of social media is that images of starving babies will make you look very bad. Hold firm. The Western media will come to the rescue.
Biden Administration, Censorship, Civil Rights, Commentary, Free Speech, Gaza, Israel, U.S. Congress
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful Idiots
By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners.
Israel Is off the Leash
Des Freedman on the dramatic change that a plethora of editorials in the broadsheet U.K. press have taken on Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Jonathan Cook: Israel Is Lying About ‘Hamas Stealing Aid’
Western journalists — having promoted Israel’s claims for more than a year and half — have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The White House as Mad House
It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years.
WATCH: The Challenge of the McBride Case
Before the judges rejected David McBride appeals on Wednesday, Joe Lauria, Jeff Morris, Bill Brown, Kathryn Kelly and John Shipton told a rally outside the court building in Canberra what is at stake in McBride’s case.
WATCH: Rare Is the Judge Who Opposes Power
CN Editor Joe Lauria speaking outside the Canberra courthouse Wednesday before David McBride would have his appeals denied by the Supreme Court.
McBride’s Appeals Rejected
The Australian government whistleblower is headed back to jail with no end of incarceration in sight. He is serving nearly six years for leaking documents to the media exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, reports Joe Lauria.
BRICS, China, Commentary, European Union, NATO, Russia, Slovenia, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, Yugoslavia
DIANA JOHNSTONE: Serbia’s Organized Chaos
Serbia has been racked for months by disruptive protests largely attributed to students, opposition leaders and university authorities. Are these organic protests?
Vijay Prashad: How the IMF Underdevelops Africa
After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
WATCH: On the Ground in Gaza
A doctor returned from Gaza where he volunteered at Nasser and European hospitals in Khan Younis speaks live to an audience at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on Tuesday.
Head of Condemned US-Israel Aid Plan for Gaza Quits
Jake Wood’s resignation on Sunday, citing a violation of “basic humanitarian principles” echoes widespread criticism of the U.S.-Israel aid plan.
Commentary, Cuba, Gaza, Middle East, Politics, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. State Department, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Rubio, Cuba & the Zionist Model
Lawrence Davidson on how the history of the Cuban American lobby, in copying the Israel lobby, has prepared the U.S. secretary of state to carry out Trump’s often unconstitutional and inhumane bidding.
Chris Hedges Report: Climate & Mortality
Eiren Caffall discusses her novel, All the Water in the World and her memoir, The Mourners Bestiary.
American Empire, Analysis, Arts, Censorship, Commentary, Film, Free Speech, History, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Vietnam
WATCH: Oliver Stone — ‘They Always Kill the Socrates’
American film director Oliver Stone addressed the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day for the Allies in World War II.
Blood of Gaza Will Not Wash From Keir Starmer’s Hands
The Labour government’s suspension of free trade talks with Israel is too little too late, writes John McEvoy. The U.K. prime minister and Foreign Minister Lammy should be in The Hague.
Commentary, Gaza, Gun Violence, Israel, Militarism, Terrorism, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Elias Rodriguez’s Murderous Gift to Israel
The barbarism of the live-streamed genocide in Gaza has inflicted moral injury on a scale untold, says John Wight. This is how Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and this abhorrent double murder should be understood.