Mary Kostakidis says Dan Duggan, a pilot who will be in a court hearing on Friday, is a victim of the changed relationship between Washington and Beijing.
US Pursues Australian Citizen With Extradition Threat
Category: Commentary
A Brutal Suppression of Speech
The increasingly common resort to diktats by U.S. authorities is a notable feature of contemporary American society — in all spheres, writes Michael Brenner.
Ilan Pappé Sees Hope for ‘Collapse of Zionist Project’
The anti-Zionist Israeli scholar told Democracy Now! that he sees signs that a free Palestine may be possible in which Jewish and Arab people can coexist.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘A Turning Tide? Assange & Netanyahu’
Two rare occurrences this week raise questions about the effects of political pressure on the established order.
Craig Murray: Something Changed in the Assange Case
Mentioning “what is at stake here” was the first real acknowledgement of the major issues in this case from the judiciary in over a decade of proceedings. It did feel like something had changed.
The Dead End of Liberal American Zionism
The dream of humanistic Zionism is collapsing, but — like other entrenched Jewish groups — J Street is desperate to keep the fantasy on life support, write Norman Solomon and Abba A. Solomon.
Israel’s Crimes Far Worse Than Hamas’
Netanyahu says any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is “absurd and false,” writes Jonathan Cook. He’s correct and here’s why.
Chris Hedges: The Slow-Motion Execution of Assange
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.
Now, ICC Must Investigate British Ministers Too
Arms, training and spying: As the International Criminal Court targets Netanyahu for war crimes, Mark Curtis flags seven U.K. officials for assisting the Israeli prime minister in three areas.
RAY McGOVERN: Russia & China — Two Against One
Xi Jinping’s reception of Putin yesterday in Beijing sealed the increasingly formidable strategic relationship, fundamentally misunderstood in Washington.