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Europe, European Union, Human Rights, Intelligence, Israel, Palestine, Surveillance

Israel Raids Palestinian Civil Society

August 19, 2022

The targeted groups were documenting Israeli war crimes in Palestine and collaborating with investigations into Israel’s actions, including the probe by the International Criminal Court, Tanupriya Singh reports. 

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Climate Change, Commentary, Economy, United Nations

Saving Earth

August 19, 2022

We cannot expect our dominant institutions to lead us to the transformation on which a viable human future depends, writes David Korten.

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Africa, Climate Change, Commentary, Human Rights, Kenya

The System Is Causing Food Crisis, Not the War

August 18, 2022

Small farmers are the world’s primary food providers. Adele says it’s imperative for policymakers to listen to them, not the big corporates.

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Arts, CN Live!, Julian Assange, Music, WikiLeaks

WATCH: Waters Joins Assange Rally at DOJ

August 18, 2022

Fresh off his spectacular show in Washington on Tuesday, the famed musician Roger Waters addressed a rally for the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher outside the Department of Justice on Wednesday.

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Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine

Israeli Court Extends Solitary Confinement of Ahmad Manasra

August 18, 2022

Several human rights groups condemned the verdict. Amnesty said it is cruel and legitimizes torture.

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Climate Change, Commentary, United Nations

British Land for the Rich as Crisis Grows

August 18, 2022

Adam Ramsay says rural land in the U.K. is privately owned, publicly funded and run largely for the rich, in ways that worsen climate breakdown.

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Civil Rights, Commentary, Legal, Racism, U.S.

Police Lied to Search Breonna Taylor’s Home

August 17, 2022

Marjorie Cohn details why this case goes beyond the issue of a no-knock warrant and why those working to abolish the prison system did not celebrate the indictment. 

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Censorship, History, Politics, U.S.

Censorship Wave in US Education

August 17, 2022

PEN America notes that while fewer gag order measures have become law this year compared to 2021, this year’s spike in bills has included proposals that are far more punitive.

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Africa, Censorship, Commentary, History, Race Relations, U.S.

Covering Up Slavery in the Birth of the US

August 17, 2022

As some politicians try to shackle educators with restrictive laws, Raphael E. Rogers recommends using historical records to show the role that slavery played in  the forming of a nation.  

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American Empire, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Militarism, Russia, Taiwan, U.S., Ukraine

Caitlin Johnstone: Making Kissinger Look Sane

August 16, 2022

This blood-soaked empire manager is not warning about Washington’s pursuit of planetary hegemony because he has gotten saner. It’s because the war machine has gotten crazier.

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THE ANGRY ARAB: Repressive Secularism in the Arab World

August 16, 2022

The war on Islamists has been, for all intents and purposes, a war on democratic rule, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.

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SCOTT RITTER: Sometimes Humanity Gets it Right

August 15, 2022

Disarmament in the time of Perestroika spotlights the pivotal contributions of U.S.-Soviet inspectors in helping to complete the 1988 INF treaty, which took effect after a period of bilateral tensions that could be considered more severe than those of today.

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Chris Hedges: The Final Collapse

August 15, 2022

The more insurmountable the crisis becomes, the more we, like our prehistoric ancestors, will retreat into self-defeating responses, violence, magical thinking and denial.

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Assange extradition, Britain, CN Live!, Ecuador, Julian Assange, Legal, WikiLeaks

Pompeo Sued Over Surveillance of Assange Visitors

August 14, 2022

Guests who visited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in the Ecuador embassy have sued the C.I.A., former C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo and Spanish security firm UC Global for allegedly violating their 4th Amendment rights.

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JOHN KIRIAKOU: J Edgar Hoover’s Evil Brainchild

August 13, 2022

All of COINTELPRO should be declassified.  Bobby Rush’s legislation — now at high risk of getting lost in Congress  — would do that. 

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The Gross Inequality of US Pastime

August 13, 2022

Sam Pizzigati says the intense concentration of wealth in the U.S. over the past 50 years has fundamentally altered the sport’s landscape.

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Biden Administration, China, Climate Change, Commentary, Taiwan, U.S., U.S. Congress, United Nations

US-China Climate Talks in Tatters

August 12, 2022

With an eye on a major climate gathering in November, Marcy Winograd says a veterans’ group wants the White House to apologize for the way Pelosi unnecessarily escalated tension in the Asia Pacific.  

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Civil Rights, Legal, Social Media, Surveillance, Women

Facebook Shares Abortion-Related Chats With Police

August 12, 2022

In response to a mother-daughter case in Nebraska, digital rights groups are calling for end-to-end encryption of all conversations conducted on the social media giant’s  platform.

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Commentary, Media, Press Freedom, Propaganda, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Gets CBS to Retract Critical Report

August 12, 2022

It’s not just critical commentators who see the Western press as propagandists. It’s how they see themselves. 

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UK Energy Workers Plan More Walkouts

August 12, 2022

Should the actions develop into full blown strikes, they could have the capacity to shut down much of the U.K. economy, Adam Ramsay reports. 

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American Empire, China, Commentary, Income Inequality, Media, Propaganda, Taiwan

A Rational Conversation about China

August 12, 2022

The U.S. is provoking a conflict due to its own anxieties about Beijing’s economic advances, writes Vijay Prashad. We should not let ourselves be drawn in.

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Analysis, Climate Change, Commentary, Environment, U.S.

The Renewables Rush in Texas

August 11, 2022

Many of the beneficiaries of the state’s program have parent companies with high carbon emissions and a history of fighting climate policies, write Nathan Jensen and Isabella Steinhauer.

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Human Rights, Immigration, Labor, U.S.

Detained Immigrants Go on Strike

August 11, 2022

The labor action against $1 a day pay and work conditions is taking place at two facilities in California operated by the GEO Group, one of the largest for-profit prison companies in the U.S., Alejandra Quintero reports. 

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Africa, Press Freedom

Zimbabwean Journalists Arrested Under Cybersecurity Law

August 11, 2022

The crackdown on journalists is escalating in the run-up to elections next year, Ignatius Banda reports. 

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Biden Administration, Climate Change, Commentary, Cuba, Environment, Obama Administration, Trump Administration, U.S.

US Watches as Cuban Fire Rages

August 10, 2022

The Biden administration is not offering meaningful assistance to contain a potential ecological disaster 90 miles from the U.S. coastline, write Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin.

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American Empire, Column, Commentary, Gulf States, Israel, Middle East, Middle East, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

THE ANGRY ARAB: Tunisia’s New Constitution Cements Autocracy

August 10, 2022

As`ad AbuKhalil says a true Arab democracy would restrain U.S. influence and criminalize normalization with Israel. 

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COVID-19, Economy, Human Rights, Income Inequality, U.S.

Young Americans Who Go Hungry

August 10, 2022

The authors’ survey shows a significant portion of Gen Z – 30 percent  – has relied on free groceries from a pantry, church or other charity.

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China, Commentary, Media, Propaganda

Caitlin Johnstone: Lady Gaga & ‘Everything China Fears’

August 10, 2022

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech only exist on the fringes of Western society, in such small numbers that they make no difference.

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Afghanistan, Biden Administration, Commentary, International Criminal Court (ICC), Legal, Militarism, Obama Administration, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Congress, United Nations, War Crimes

Biden’s Assassination of Al-Qaeda Leader Was Illegal

August 9, 2022

Since Zawahiri did not pose “an immediate international threat,” Marjorie Cohn says he should have been arrested and brought to justice in accordance with the law.

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Afghanistan, Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, U.S., United Kingdon

Killing Children in ‘Self Defense’

August 9, 2022

Nobody can tell you how many children have been killed by drone strikes or “targeted” missiles and bombings in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen or Libya, writes Craig Murray.

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American Empire, Asia, Biden Administration, China, Column, Commentary, Militarism, Russia, Taiwan, U.S., U.S. Congress, Ukraine

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Pelosi Fallout

August 9, 2022

The U.S. now operates as a bulwark against time and history — a hopeless but destructive project.

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American Empire, Assange extradition, Australia, Biden Administration, Commentary, Intelligence, Julian Assange, U.S., United Kingdon

Australian Labor Party & Assange: Burying the Politics

August 8, 2022

The government in Canberra is straining credibility in insisting the Assange case is not a political prosecution, writes Kellie Tranter.

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