McBride Trial Tests Australian Justice
Author: Consortiumnews.com
Are You Human Like Us?
A hunger for genocide and ethnic cleansing colours senior Israeli officials’ statements and has influenced their conduct in this war. Talk of civilian casualties is brushed off, and so are calls for a ceasefire, writes Vijay Prashad.
Blades of Grass
Israelis joke about needing to decimate each generation of Palestinian militants as “mowing the grass,” an ugly metaphor that’s penetrated think-tanks in Official Washington, Elizabeth Murray first reported in 2012.
Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza
At night you lie in the dark on the cold cement floor. The phones are cut. The internet is off. You do not know what is happening. There are flashes of light. There are waves of blast concussions. There are screams. It does not…
JOHN PILGER: We Are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
Is an End Game in Sight for Ukraine?
Illusory talk about a “stalemate” and U.S. feelers about peace talks underscore Ukraine having no options left and Russia having plenty, writes Tony Kevin.
Blinken’s Humiliation
Wherever he turned in the Middle East, the U.S. secretary of state was met by opposition, reports Joe Lauria.
US Thinks It’s Powerless to Stop Gaza Genocide
It’s a genocide the U.S. is directly funding and for which it is providing diplomatic, political and military cover, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Hundreds of Thousands March Against Israel’s War
Reports from around the world on Saturday as popular opposition explodes against Israel’s war and Western support for it it.
US Diplomatic Setbacks Make Isolating Iran Difficult
Not achieving an early ceasefire in Gaza risks Hezbollah opening a second front, confrontation with Iran and a world war, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.