Marjorie Cohn discusses the ramifications of a Supreme Court decision that flies in the face of recent precedents protecting the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
US Supreme Court Tacitly Approves Execution of Innocent People
Month: June 2022
JOHN KIRIAKOU: A Whistleblower’s Agony
Denying Joshua Schulte bail because of a fear that he might reveal classified information is one thing. Subjecting him to torture is another.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Summit of No-Shows
This could prove an historic shift, reversing more than a century of usually coercive influence in Latin America.
Study Finds Fossil Fuel Gold Rush After War in Ukraine
Researchers warn that if governments’ current plans materialize, they will either end up as massive stranded assets or will lock the world into irreversible warming.
Send Nina Jankowicz a Message: Donate to the ‘Useful Idiots’
The former head of the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board thinks Consortium News is a bunch of “useful idiots.” Show her what you think of this 27-year old, independent news site.
SCOTT RITTER: Turkey Rains on NATO’s Parade
In opposing the application of Finland and Sweden, Erdogan has disrupted the military alliance’s effort to further provoke Russia with even more expansion.
Chris Hedges: Society of Spectacle
The televised Jan. 6 hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. They are a desperate ploy by a doomed political class.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Doctors’ Orders: Don’t Extradite Assange’
Jill Stein, Bill Hogan, Sue Wareham & Mary Kostakidis join CN Live! tonight 7pm EDT on Doctors for Assange’s letter telling Priti Patel it is medically and ethically “unacceptable” to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S.
Land in South Africa & Those Who Work It
The process of colonialism dispossessed African farmers and converted them into either landless workers, unpaid labor tenants or the rural unemployed, writes Vijay Prashad.
Doctors’ Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’
More than 300 Doctors For Assange have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to not make the U.K. “complicit in the slow-motion execution” of Julian Assange.