People are getting arrested at a factory in the U.K. belonging to Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer for doing nothing but exercising the democratic right to protest.
Justice for the Al Jazeera journalist — so far delayed — would serve press freedom in the occupied territories, where at least 20 journalists have been killed by Israeli forces in the last two decades.
Senior civil servants and military top brass move seamlessly into lucrative jobs in companies they were previously responsible for regulating, writes Richard Norton-Taylor.
Lower interest rates and longer-term paybacks that match the pace of underlying social progress are key to successful development finance, writes Jeffrey Sachs.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s data shows that Washington spends three times as much on its military than China, the second-largest spender, Ashik Siddique reports.
With the row over its cartoon, the newspaper that helped oust Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party has briefly found that what you sow, you can reap, writes Jonathan Cook.
“This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism” — from a talk the author gave at a rally in New York on World Press Freedom Day.
Former C.I.A. Soviet analyst Ray McGovern gave this talk, about the critical U.S. missile deployments in Eastern Europe, to the Massachusetts Peace Action and Community Church of Boston.
The class struggle is alive and well, writes Vijay Prashad. Although one of the weaknesses of our time is that massive mobilizations have not been easily converted into political power.