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Advanced Technologies, American Empire, Commentary, Media, Militarism, Military Industry, Pentagon, Propaganda, U.S., U.S. Congress
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -3: Bribery & Propaganda
When war is your business, peace is your enemy, writes Christian Sorensen. Third in a five-part series on the military-industrial-congressional complex.
COVID-19: Fauci Backed Strengthening of Viruses Despite Admitting Risk of Pandemic, Australian Newspaper Reports
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. virus expert, acknowledged the risk of a pandemic from an accidental leak of a fortified virus but supported the research anyway, The Australian newspaper has reported.
George W. Bush’s Shameful Legacy in Afghanistan
If there is any justice, the name of the former president will live in infamy, writes James Bovard.
Legacy of Paris Commune, Ended 150 Years Ago Today
What united the Paris Commune with rebellions across France and others around the world was the claim that silk workers and cutlery workers, bakers and weavers, could govern society without the bourgeoisie.
Africa, American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Foreign Policy, France, Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award, Libya
AFRICA: Deby’s Death, Chad’s Crisis & the Ghosts of Libya
Danny Sjursen says it is no accident that some 60 percent of the coups in Africa over the last half century occurred in former French colonies.
Africa, Commentary, Ethiopia, Ghana, History, Liberia, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
AFRICA: The Decline of Liberia in Black Internationalism
Historically, the country ignited the imagination of black people across the globe. Brooks Marmon looks into what happened.
AFRICA: Early Humans in Stone Age Africa Permanently Changed the Landscape With Fire
Human environmental impacts are associated with the time after the Industrial Revolution, but paleo-scientists have a deeper perspective.
Advanced Technologies, American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Israel, Militarism, Military Industry, Saudi Arabia, Trump Administration, U.S., Yemen
Selling Death
William Hartung says the bombing of Gaza this month by the U.S.-financed and supplied Israeli military is just the latest example of the devastating toll exacted by American weapons transfers.
Changing the Way the Military Handles Sexual Assault
If it took the death of a young woman to launch a relatively timid bill, Andrea Mazzarino asks what it will take to move the judging of violent crimes entirely off military bases and into the regular court system.
Commentary, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Middle East, Militarism, Palestine, Protests, U.S., U.S. Congress
Outrage at Israel Fueling Global BDS Movement
Amid growing opposition to the violation of Palestinian human rights, Marjorie Cohn notes that 31 U.S. states have legislation against boycott of and divestment.
Advanced Technologies, American Empire, Commentary, Legal, Militarism, Military, Military Industry, Pentagon, U.S., U.S. Congress
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -2: Profits & Deception
Christian Sorensen maps out the global system of weapons mongering. Second in a series of five articles on the U.S. military-industrial-congressional complex.
American Empire, Column, Commentary, Foreign Policy, Israel, Middle East, Militarism, Palestine, Protests, U.S., United Nations, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
THE ANGRY ARAB: The Palestinian Cause After the War on Gaza
The U.S. and Israel tried to erase the Palestinian problem from the face of the earth, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
Gaza Assault Left 400,000 Without Regular Access to Clean Water
“We stay up all night looking for water to fill plastic buckets,” said one mother in northern Gaza.
COVID-19: Lack of Transparency Risks Global Response
The Transparency International report reveals a pattern of poor transparency and a disturbing trend of governments censoring key details of their orders from drug companies.
Big Media and Independent Journalism
Big Media depends on big money from big corporations. No wonder that it promotes the corporate agenda and the agendas of governments that serve corporate interests.
WATCH: CN Live! — New Episode — ‘The Silenced Nuclear Threat’
CN Live! host Elizabeth Vos interviews anti-nuclear weapons activists about the existential problem that should be front and center in the public debate.
How Israel Shields Itself With the Smear of Antisemitism
Israel uses Jews collectively as a political shield, exploiting sensitivities about the historical suffering of Jews at the hands of non-Jews to immunize itself from international opprobrium, writes Jonathan Cook.
The US & Israel Aren’t Puppets of Each Other
Caitlin Johnstone says they’re both member states of the same undeclared empire ruled by uncrowned kings who use governments as weapons to kill and steal.
Advanced Technologies, American Empire, Commentary, Militarism, Military Industry, Pentagon, U.S., U.S. Congress
A People’s Guide to the War Industry
Profit alone drives the war industry, leaving behind piles of corpses, writes Christian Sorensen. First in a series of five articles about the military industrial congressional complex.
American Empire, Books, Central America, Chile, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Guatemala, History, Intelligence, International, Iran, Latin America, Militarism, Soviet Union, United Nations, Vietnam, War Crimes
Manufacturing Consent for War
The targets of Washington’s bullets have been leaders who tried to assert their nation’s economic sovereignty, writes Jeremy Kuzmarov in this review of a new book by Vijay Prashad.
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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Duping a Whistleblower
WATCH: CN Live! — New Episode — John Kiriakou’s First Show: On Justice in Gaza & US Prisons
John Kiriakou & Elizabeth Vos interviewed Kevin Gosztola, and Paul Wright on “Seeking Justice in Gaza and the US Prison System.” Watch the replay.
Sleep Now in the Fire
Grotesque violence of this kind defines the Israeli apartheid project to annihilate the Palestinians, writes Vijay Prasad.
Why Israel Blows Up Media Offices & Targets Journalists
Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage, writes Norman Solomon.
A Powerful Letter From a Doctor in Gaza
“This needs the right intervention, an intervention from the outside world.” Ann Wright reports on an open letter from the director general of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.
What is Left for Palestine?
An entire nation cannot turn the other cheek to a power that is seriously intent on genocide, writes Craig Murray.
American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Refusing Erasure: Palestinian Resistance
Danny Sjursen sees the Biden administration continuing American complicity in historic injustice in the Holy Land.
The Moral Cowardice of UK’s Opposition Leader on Palestine
Jonathan Cook condemns Keir Starmer’s failure to make it clear that Israel is committing war crimes for which there should be harsh consequences.
Google Employees Call on Company to Cut Ties to Israeli Military
A group of Jewish and “allied” employees of the tech giant have published an open letter calling for the end of contracts with the IDF; to not censor public debate on Israel and Palestine; to recognize the pain of Palestinians…
American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Israel, Legal, Militarism, Palestine, U.S., United Nations
Israel Isn’t Entitled to ‘Self-Defense’ Against the People Under Its Occupation
Seven years after Operation Protective Edge, Israeli officials are once again committing war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Commentary, Foreign Policy, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
PATRICK LAWRENCE: 1948 — No Longer Shrouded in the Mists
What we see now is a purposeful program of terror and it is merely the latest, in form and intent, of what Palestinians have endured since the Nakba.