The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Phantom Leftwing Enemies
Category: Free Speech
Chris Hedges: Requiem for America on the 4th of July
Britain Detains US Human Rights Lawyer
Britain continues on its authoritarian road by targeting pro-Palestine journalists, activists, academics, doctors, musicians, former MPs and lawyers, seizing property and using “the process as punishment.”
Palestine Activist, Jailed as ‘Terrorist,’ Speaks Out
Declassified UK spoke to Ellie Kamio, one of the first people in British history to be sentenced as a terrorist for property damage. In the trial, defendants were not allowed to say the word “genocide” or why they targeted Israeli…
Jonathan Cook: Fealty to Israel
Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for politics. Why not lock up opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy?
UK Appeals Court Restores Terrorist Ban on Palestine Action
The court on Monday upheld the Labour government’s terrorism proscription of Palestine Action, overriding a High Court ruling in February and setting off another round of mass arrests of protesters in London.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘The USA v. Israel’
With the war on Iran stuck in low-intensity conflict, new focus is on the U.S.-Israel relationship. Everyone has a theory, but it’s perhaps more complex than it looks. This week we try to unravel it. Watch the replay.
Caitlin Johnstone: A War on Human Conscience
It’s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for criticizing a U.S. war. They’re actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.
Outrage as UK Activists Get Combined 25 Yrs for ‘Terrorism’
The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and dangerous to speech.
Caitlin Johnstone: UK Gone Mad Over Israel
This just says so much about the true nature of the artificially manufactured panic around “antisemitism” in the West.