F.B.I. whistleblower Coleen Rowley and attorney Marjorie Cohn discuss the legal and political fallout of the ongoing ICE crisis in Minnesota and across the U.S.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Minnesota Meltdown’
Category: Commentary
Caitlin Johnstone: Regime Change the US
Not its fake official elected government: its real government. The oligarchs and government agencies which actually run the thing.
WATCH: Premiere of ‘The World This Week’
CN Live! is launching a new series, The World This Week. WATCH THE REPLAY from Saturday’s first episode with guest Patrick Lawrence on Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland.
Jonathan Cook: A UK Jury’s Right to Defy a Judge
Keir Starmer needs convictions to justify Palestine Action’s proscription as a terrorist group. In the Filton trial, the direct-action group’s barrister explained how jurors pose a vital defence against government tyranny.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Unabated US Prisoner Abuse
Guards are leaving federal inmates in restraints for hours and even, in dozens of cases, as long as a week. That’s just the latest finding on abuses pervading the system.
Caitlin Johnstone: Just Read Lindsey Graham’s Face
Lindsey Graham’s long face is encouraging. Maybe war with Iran really has been put off for the time being.
Russia Blasts US at UN Security Council Over Iran
WATCH: Russia blasted the U.S. for running a “regime change” operation in Iran, while the Iranian envoy said “any act of aggression, direct or indirect, will be met with a decisive, proportionate, and lawful response.”
Chopping Down Laws
Trump rejects the obligation to execute his job faithfully, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. His loyalty is to himself, not to the words or the values underlying the U.S. Constitution.
Australia’s Hate (Free-) Speech Bill
The bill calls for one to be imprisoned for causing theoretical discomfort in a theoretical person, writes Christina Maas. It removes proof of harm, rewrites fear as legal standard, and shifts the burden of innocence to the accused.
Jonathan Cook: Genocide Is No Mistake
A new film about Hind Rajab’s murder points to a deeply sick Israeli society, driven into the darkest of places by a racist ideology that says Jewish lives count, Palestinian lives don’t.