Trump’s Department of Justice is asking Congress to allow the attorney general to indefinitely detain people without trial in violation of the constitutional right of habeas corpus, writes Marjorie Cohn.
UPDATED: Despite fears by his lawyers and doctors that Julian Assange is at high risk of being infected in prison, his judge on Wednesday denied him bail, reports Joe Lauria.
There is no substitute, as this catastrophe unfolds, to transfer priorities from privatization to the creation of a robust public sector at the very least for health, says Vijay Prashad.
Health industry executives themselves are at risk because they’ve put profit before public health, says Joe Lauria.
The case of Loujain al-Hathloul and others is embarrassing for MBS, who wants Western allies to consider him a reformer, say Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold.
With the U.S. and OAS looking the other way, protesters have been subjected to brutally violent repression, Ben Norton reports.
Alka Kurian reports on a striking act of resistance in a patriarchal country where women – but particularly Muslim women – have historically had their rights denied.
There were moments Tuesday when Craig Murray achieved the suspension of disbelief you might do in theater, and began thinking “Wow, this case is going well for Assange.”
When Julian Assange steps into Woolwich Crown Court on Feb. 24, true journalism will be the only crime on trial, writes John Pilger.
Doctors for Assange have launched a new campaign to get proper medical treatment for the imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist by publishing a letter in Britain’s leading medical journal.