Ex-Israeli intelligence official Ari ben-Menashe tells CN Live! the U.S. Justice Dept.’s notice that it has no case against clients of the late, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is all tied up in the politics of the Gaza war. Watch the…
The Trump administration’s attack on the courageous U.N. special rapporteur presages a world without rules, where rogue states, such as the U.S. and Israel, carry out war crimes without restraint.
The empire depends on ignorance, says Caitlin Johnstone. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out.
Forty years later, David Robie, the only journalist on board the Greenpeace ship in the weeks leading up to its bombing on July 10, 1985, looks back on this act of French state terrorism in a New Zealand port.
The move marks a challenge to the Anti-Defamation League’s decades of influence over curriculum related to Israel in U.S. schools.
“Terrorism” is just a label that means whatever the Western empire needs it to mean at a given time and place.
Portland in 2020, Los Angeles today — Karen J. Greenberg covers the maximalist view of executive power emerging from Trump’s response to protests against ICE raids.
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions.
Despite all the dodging of reality, many Americans now know that mass murder of certain other human beings is a functional U.S. ideology, writes Norman Solomon.
“Bibi, Bibi you can’t hide,” the protestors chanted. “You’ve been charged with genocide.”
For a good long time what’s been happening in Ukraine is nothing more than postwar gore. If you have lost a war but cannot admit it, you are playing the old game of pretend.
“You need to kill them. No matter who it is.” An Israeli soldier speaking anonymously to Sky News provides the latest testimony about indiscriminate slaying of Palestinians.
CN has been ahead of the news on Ukraine, from reporting the coup and warning of nuclear catastrophe as far back as 2015, to news of the war today. Help us to continue our coverage.
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
Surveillance with AI, robotics and drones threatens privacy and democracy. An independent technical group is needed to monitor U.S. government agencies, enforcing compliance with the Constitution and ending hidden, illegal programs.
There were two other original sins, rarely mentioned, that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin.
If America is to be what the Revolution envisioned on July 4, 1776, a nation governed by laws, then the American people must speak out and defend that vision, writes Dennis Kucinich.
The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Americans are losing their chains to the MSM and are turning as never before to online, independent media, the oldest of which is Consortium News.
Justices stripped federal judges of their authority to protect people throughout the U.S. when the president breaks the law, writes Marjorie Cohn.
If the definition of citizenship is changed by executive order, there is nothing to prevent Trump or any other president from defining citizenship anyway they choose, writes Margaret Kimberley.