The U.S. administration’s efforts behind an Israel-crafted resolution is American imperialism masquerading as a peace process.
Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s UN Ploy
Category: Human Rights
Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings.
Secret Plans for Media Censorship
William Evans reports on efforts by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs to revive the four-decade dead D-Notice system.
Civil Disobedience: Preventing Tyranny
Mick Hall looks into the justification, precedence, thinking and tactical logic behind a longstanding means of confronting unjust systems and laws.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them.
WATCH: Awarded for Daring to Call it Genocide
Navi Pillay, a South African jurist who headed the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which found Israel had committed genocide, won this year’s Sydney Peace Prize. Consortium News was there.
California Law Illegally Muzzles Students & Teachers
The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information, reports Marjorie Cohn.
An Assault on Academic Freedom
U.S. civil rights laws are being exploited to suppress pro-Palestine speech in an authoritarian assault on academic freedom, finds a report by two academic groups.
Trump’s Insane & Illegal War on Venezuela
The White House’s murderous strikes on small boats at sea constitute unlawful extrajudicial killings, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Greatest Ally is the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.