The government has rejected an FOI request for messages that may have passed between the prime minister and MbS in January, a month with some of the worst air strikes on civilians in Yemen, Phil Miller reports.
The fallout for police whistleblowers is at least as bad as for those elsewhere in government.
Despite all the talk of trade, Vijay Prashad says the real focus of the G5 Sahel was always going to be security.
All the safeguards being setting up now to manipulate information online are not there to eliminate lies, they’re there to eliminate truth.
You can be sure that these obscene, unverified charges against Russian forces won’t attract the social-media censors who are supposedly rooting out “disinformation.”
The president followed his remarks Monday by unveiling an Indo-Pacific trade pact designed to advance U.S. corporate interests and counter Chinese influence in the region.
Amid persistent La Niña conditions and a generally hotter, thirstier atmosphere, Imtiaz Rangwala describes the various forms of drought that lie ahead, some of which coincide with higher levels of precipitation.
In their less-guarded moments, even the worst empire managers know deep down what is true and let it slip out.
Biden should invite all the heads of state in the region to the Americas’ Summit to foster better dialogue and a brighter future for the hemisphere, writes Medea Benjamin.
