Waters, Stevens and rapper Lowkey performed live on Friday for Gaza. Watch the replay here.
WATCH: Roger Waters, Cat Stevens Play for Gaza
Category: Arts
Caitlin Johnstone: The Silence of the Artists
Celebrities are reluctant to criticize the U.S.-centralized empire because they benefit from it directly.
Patrick Lawrence: Late-Imperial Duplicities
Chris Hedges: PEN America Self-Destructs
In May 2013 Hedges resigned from PEN America when it appointed former State Department official Suzanne Nossel to run it. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state, including on Julian Assange.
WATCH: Death Penalty for Assange?
Australian Sen. David Shoebridge spoke of the danger of the death penalty for Julian Assange in this discussion after a Sydney screening of the new film, The Trust Fall. (w/transcript)
The Oscars Speech Smear Campaign
Jonathan Cook on the courtiers and charlatans who lied about what Jonathan Glazer said in his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards.
Worthy & Unworthy Victims: Navalny & Lira
While Alexey Navalny’s death commanded 24-hour news coverage, Gonzalo Lira’s death in Ukraine was virtually ignored. Alan MacLeod on why one death apparently mattered so much more to U.S. corporate media.
A Blueprint for Counter-Insurgency in the West – Pt 1
Britain’s General Sir Frank Kitson, who died in January, left a terrible legacy in Ireland and a model for countering subversion and insurgency elsewhere, writes Mick Hall. First of an article in two parts.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Grand Delusions
This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.
Pilger & the Palestinians
We lost a major voice in defense of the Palestinian people in the midst of a campaign to eradicate them from Gaza and drive them from the West Bank.