Trump tells Ukraine stop hitting Russia; says Zelensky must go; exempts Russia from sanctions; orders Musk to stop aiding Ukraine. Yemen roars, Saudis recoil. Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, 9am EDT Sunday.
Investigative journalist Daniel Boguslaw discusses the inner workings of an expanding post-9/11 national security complex that requires the manufacture of new “terrorism” threat categories to nourish and sustain itself.
A Bloomberg News investigations finds top officials delaying the release of the Department of Defense’s report on the U.S. attack on an Iranian school until after the U.S. midterms.
In her revelatory work The Cultural Cold War, the late British author was the first to shine so unblinking a light on the sprawl of the C.I.A.’s cultural interventions.
If apartheid South Africa had no “right” to exist, neither does Israel, as the late Desmond Tutu famously observed, before Israel started committing genocide in Gaza.
Hours before the White House cancelled the plan, a poll found 8-in-10 Americans opposed the president’s idea for publicizing the execution of the 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.
The Iranian Parliament speaker essentially asked the U.S. to fulfill its obligations under the agreement the two nations signed back in June, Dave DeCamp reports.
Nicolas J. S. Davies urges a special session of U.N. General Assembly aimed at taking concrete actions for Palestine for which people all over the world are calling.
Israel’s destruction of Palestinian infrastructure, its control over Palestinian money and Western corporate complicity in apartheid are interconnected fronts of the same offensive.
The one-year delay was announced amid intensified Israeli settler violence and growing expectation that Israel plans to undermine the Palestinian Authority in a bid to ultimately dismantle it, Aseel Saleh reports.
Harvard Professor Jill Lepore discusses her new book on the ideological roots of Big Tech technocrats and tech’s damage to democratic gains over centuries of political struggle.
A company should not disclose a risk of catastrophe to humanity and then sell its shares to the public before any public authority has the power to evaluate that risk or to stop deployment.
A global debate that treats AI governance as an aspiration should at least recognise that one country is already ahead of the curve, writes Madeline Carr.
A classic example is the BBC’s Nick Robinson interviewing Zack Polanski in the wake of his Green Party’s anti-Zionist statement and demanding he affirm “Israel’s right to exist.”
The 24 soldiers interviewed for the film are being prosecuted not because they told lies about Israel, but because they told the truth.
An entire generation is being asked to accept austerity while Europe embarks on one of its largest military buildups since the Cold War, writes Medea Benjamin.
Ian Henderson, “Inspector A” of the OPCW’s skeptical insider analysis of chemical attacks in Syria, responds to allegedly newly-found, un-declared chemical weapons.
Putin bails out Trump, angering Zelensky as Kiev is pounded. Is Iran on hold? And a U.S. execution victim awakes as another is set to die in public. Ray McGovern, Patrick Henningsen. Watch the replay.
If the streets of France have something important to tell us now, it is that the centrist, or liberal-authoritarian, model is crumbling as surely as the lycées of Lyons and Nimes.
Switzerland is being gradually integrated into a broader European security architecture increasingly oriented towards possible long-term confrontation with Russia, writes Uroš Lipušcek.