By enriching uranium at the 60 percent level of purity, Iran is applying its own strategy of diplomatic leverage, Gareth Porter reports.
Vienna Talks Reveal Biden Team’s Attachment to Trump’s Illegal Sanctions
Month: April 2021
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Banner Headlines on Afghanistan Obscure US Motives
Exceptionalism and universalism are the third rails in the U.S.: Any public figure who questions either will suffer a kind of political electrocution.
Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire
U.S. leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
Mobs Rioted in Washington 173 Years Ago Monday to Defend Slaveholders
The violence on April 18-19, 1848, which targeted the abolitionist press, followed one of the largest attempted escapes from slavery in U.S. history, Michael David Cohen recounts.
When Media at Least Tried to Be Impartial
It was never easy, but part of the code of practicing journalism was to not favor one political party over the other in day-to-day political reporting.
Amazon Union Vote Shows Why PRO Act Is Needed
Rebekah Entralgo says current federal labor law isn’t strong enough to thwart corporate union busting.
WATCH: Worldwide Members of Parliament Back Assange
An international symposium of parliamentarians, including Jeremy Corbyn, spoke on Saturday in a Don’t Extradite Assange production simulcast by CN Live! Watch the replay here.
Hawks Who Want War with Iran Work Overtime
Opponents of the nuclear deal are trying to maintain draconian Trump-era sanctions, write Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin.
What Biden Didn’t Say About US in Afghanistan
Troops on the ground aren’t the only measure of horrific warfare, writes Norman Solomon.
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