Imagine if a Chinese billionaire were funding a political message in Western societies the way Open Society is doing in Arab countries.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Soros in the Arab World
Author: corinna barnard
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Deaf, but Not Blind to US Decline
In Fiona Hill’s recent speech it’s possible to detect the very faint signals of Washington’s policy elite responding to the immense global power shift that is underway.
Chris Hedges: The Democratic Party’s Revenge on Matt Taibbi
Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
Netanyahu Pays for Ditching Democrats
The Israeli leader made a major miscalculation by turning against the Democratic Party and allying his country entirely with Republicans, writes Ramzy Baroud.
G7 Should Be Shut Down
This is an undemocratic body that uses its historical power to impose its narrow interests on a world that is in the grip of a range of more pressing dilemmas. writes Vijay Prashad.
Caitlin Johnstone: 60 Minutes Australia Churning Out War-with-China Propaganda
Australians are particularly vulnerable to propaganda because the country has the most concentrated media ownership in the Western world, dominated by Nine Entertainment and the Murdoch-owned News Corp.
The Quest to Expose US Torture
With each passing year, more details emerge about Washington’s torture programs, writes Karen J. Greenberg. But much remains hidden as Congress and U.S. policymakers refuse to address the wrongdoing.
After Clearing MI5 of Torture, Keir Starmer Attended its Chief’s Farewell Party
The year after he protected Jonathan Evans from possible prosecution, the U.K. Labour leader — then senior public prosecutor — went to the spymaster’s farewell drinks, paid for by the security agency, Matt Kennard reports.
Patrick Lawrence: John Durham & Burying History
Witness the obliteration of a highly significant passage in U.S. history. To be deprived in this way of the past — of the facts of our time — is a kind of condemnation.
Britain’s Perilous Escalation in Ukraine
From lobbying for fighter jets to supplying depleted uranium, the U.K. is making sure escalation is the only way forward, writes Jonathan Cook.