The sentencing hearing, and Khan’s two hours of graphic testimony, marked the first time that details of the C.I.A. torture program were laid bare in public.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: CIA Torture Finally Rebuked, By Military Jury
Month: November 2021
Murder By Any Other Name
Scott Ritter explains how the murder of Zemari Ahmadi and nine family members by a U.S. drone attack in August was whitewashed by the Pentagon.
Mass Media Help Pentagon Exonerate Itself In Afghan Airstrike
COP26: Fossil Fuel Companies Get Inside Climate Conference
Organizers said they wouldn’t be welcome, but they found a side entrance, as Adam Ramsay reports.
The Real Strike Behind Netflix Hit ‘Squid Game’
Many viewers of the hugely popular series may not realize how the fantastical vision of wretched worker suicides is rooted in South Korea’s recent union history, writes Minsun Ji.
COP26: Britain’s Courtship of Climate-Action Obstructers
The government’s fossil-fuel-expanding trade intentions raise urgent questions about its hosting of COP26, writes Nafeez Ahmed.
Pro-Sandinista Social Media Accounts Blocked Days Ahead of Nicaraguan Elections
Silicon Valley’s crackdown was part and parcel of the U.S. government’s political assault on the country, writes Ben Norton.
4 Years Later, NYT Says Steele Dossier ‘Turned Out to Be Democratic-Funded Opposition Research’
With the arrest of the principal source of the bogus dossier, The New York Times belatedly admits what the dossier was, a fact reported in Consortium News four years ago.
Washington’s Unhealthy Obsession With Cuba
Public funding for the anti-Castro industry in the United States seems inexhaustible, writes Rosa Miriam Elizalde.
Billionaires Not Morally Qualified to Shape Civilization
We’re talking about a class which could easily put a complete halt to human beings dying of starvation, writes Caitlin Johnstone. But they don’t.