Americans suffer the same disabilities as the Europeans of 1919: They cannot think. They cannot speak plainly among themselves.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Manufacture of Decline
Category: American Empire
From Press Freedom to Prison Systems, Everything Assange Touches Gets Illuminated
The bombshell revelations of the imprisoned journalist were arguably small potatoes compared to the criminality Assange exposed by simply standing his ground, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
The US Appeal and CIA Plans to Assassinate Assange
The Yahoo! News revelations will put even more mental stress on the WikiLeaks publisher, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Assange: A Threat to War Itself
By pulling the realities of war out of its carefully crafted public context, the WikiLeaks founder became a danger to the country’s political status quo, writes Robert Koehler.
26 Years of Blowing Your Mind
If you only watched corporate media coverage of Colin Powell you’d probably think he walked on water.
If UN Charter Were Put To a Vote Today, Would It Pass?
Countries outside of the Western alliance don’t get to define what the “international community” thinks, writes Vijay Prashad.
Creator of Most Effective Anti-War Meme Dead At 84
Any narrative about an empire-targeted nation backed by U.S. officials must be presumed false until it’s been backed by mountains of independently verifiable evidence, Caity Johnstone writes.
Colin Powell: An Appraisal
Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, wrote this profile in 2004 of Colin Powell, who died at 84 of Covid-19 on Monday.
What Baraitser Thought About the Plot to Kill or Abduct Assange
In her ruling in January against extraditing the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser expressed a high degree of understanding for the CIA wanting to rub out Assange, writes Joe Lauria.
Netflix Re-Launching Assange Smear Days Before Court Date
Caitlin Johnstone responds to Netflix’s revival of a 2013 documentary that WikiLeaks, at the time, refuted as irresponsible libel.