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The Middle East is the key to wide-ranging, economic, interlinked integration and peace, writes Pepe Escobar.
Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks, corporate and Israeli lobbyists and Wall Street consultants, reports Kevin Gosztola.
The day after journalist Glen Greenwald was charged with cyber crimes in Brazil, the timetable for the WikiLeaks publisher’s extradition case was set in London, writes Nozomi Hayase.
The prisoners who succeeded in getting Juilan Assange moved out of solitary confinement had a unique vantage point on his plight, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
The population who suffered under the occupation feel they were doubly punished by the devastating conflict waged to end it, writes Mark Lattimer.
CN Live! webcast an event in Sydney featuring doctors who’ve petitioned the UK & Australia to provide urgent medical care for Julian Assange.
Engineering expert Ian Henderson also said findings were suppressed, Ben Norton reports.
The disruption in France is so severe that Canada is issuing travel advisories, writes David Climenhaga. But it’s hard to find any coverage in the Canadian press.
WATCH: Activists and journalists gathered in front of the Brazilian Embassy in DC on Thursday to sound the alarm about the threat to press freedom emanating from the attempt to charge Glenn Greenwald for practicing journalism.