The Trump administration’s attack on the courageous U.N. special rapporteur presages a world without rules, where rogue states, such as the U.S. and Israel, carry out war crimes without restraint.
Chris Hedges: The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
Month: July 2025
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Epstein & the War on Gaza’
Ex-Israeli intelligence official Ari ben-Menashe tells CN Live! the U.S. Justice Dept.’s notice that it has no case against clients of the late, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is all tied up in the politics of the Gaza war. Watch the…
Which One Is the Terrorist?
The empire depends on ignorance, says Caitlin Johnstone. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out.
Australia Obstructed Probe Into Deadly ‘Rainbow Warrior’ Bombing
Forty years later, David Robie, the only journalist on board the Greenpeace ship in the weeks leading up to its bombing on July 10, 1985, looks back on this act of French state terrorism in a New Zealand port.
Largest US Labor Union Cuts Ties to Major Israel Defender
The move marks a challenge to the Anti-Defamation League’s decades of influence over curriculum related to Israel in U.S. schools.
Caitlin Johnstone: Making ‘Terrorism’ a Meaningless Word
“Terrorism” is just a label that means whatever the Western empire needs it to mean at a given time and place.
Trump’s California Protest Crackdown & the Law
Portland in 2020, Los Angeles today — Karen J. Greenberg covers the maximalist view of executive power emerging from Trump’s response to protests against ICE raids.
Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions.
Genocide Made Invisible
Despite all the dodging of reality, many Americans now know that mass murder of certain other human beings is a functional U.S. ideology, writes Norman Solomon.
WATCH: Netanyahu Skewered Outside White House
“Bibi, Bibi you can’t hide,” the protestors chanted. “You’ve been charged with genocide.”