People who leap to embrace pro-Western arguments against imperial-targeted governments rarely consider anything that opposes the TV news.
Caitlin Johnstone: Reading Both Sides
Category: Commentary
Throwing a Shoe at the Illegal US War on Iraq
Vijay Prashad explains why a group of international media organizations reject and denounce the U.S. government’s attack on Julian Assange and journalism.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin Speaks
As the Russian president’s year-end presser helped underscore, Europe will increasingly understand itself as the western end of Eurasia rather than the eastern shore of the Atlantic.
Chris Hedges: PEN America Uncoils Rope to Get Assange
Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.
How Not to Explain the Ukraine Crisis
The PBS NewsHour invited on just about the worst person in the U.S. government to help Americans understand the crisis in Ukraine, writes Mike Madden.
2022 — Year of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine
Russia says Europe must think about the real prospect of turning their continent into a field of military confrontation like that which existed at the height of the Cold War, writes Scott Ritter.
US & Ukraine at UN Refuse to Condemn Nazism
The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.
Pentagon’s 20-Year Killing Spree
U.S. government policies have treated civilians as expendable, writes Norman Solomon. Meanwhile truth tellers such as Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Nathan Hale get punished for what they expose.
Supply Chain Disruption Arrives ‘Just in Time’
Kim Moody says cost-cutting methods introduced to the Western auto industry in the 1980s have spread to every type of goods and service production, transport and retail.
New York Times Airstrikes Reporting Ignores Daniel Hale
The influential news organization should give the whistleblower proper credit and call for Biden to immediately pardon him, writes Sam Carliner.