Steve Ellner calls on the U.S. corporate media to apply more skepticism in their coverage of the Venezuelan opposition.
DirecTV’s Exit and the Complexities of Venezuelan Politics
Category: Human Rights
COVID-19: Hunger Gnaws at the Edges of the World
Agricultural workers, farmers and social movements can teach us how the food system should be reorganized during this crisis, write Vijay Prashad and Richard Pithouse.
COVID-19: Virus Blows Away Myth of ‘First’ & ‘Third’ Worlds
Star performers during the pandemic are not in the historical “First World,” writes Steven Friedman.
LEE CAMP: While Pandemic Destroys So Many Lives, The Surveillance State Celebrates
If they’re able to track “violators” who follow within a flying spit particle of someone else, then it stands to reason they could choose to track pretty much any other type of behavior.
COVID-19: Israel’s New Government Exploits Pandemic to Annex 30 Percent of West Bank
Marjorie Cohn says Trump is aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes under the cover of Covid.
COVID-19: May Day 2020 Showed Worker Unity in the Age of Pandemic
On May Day, Americans were more aware of the plight of workers than at any time in decades, argues Peter Dreier.
The FBI Investigated Robert Parry
The bureau’s file on Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, was released last month, Joe Lauria reports.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Espionage is the Charge, But He’s Really Accused of Sedition
The U.S. is trying to extradite Julian Assange to stand trial for espionage, but even though sedition is no longer on the books, that’s what the U.S. is really charging him with, says Joe Lauria.
COVID-19: Time to Shake Up Global Sanctions Regimes, say UN Officials
At a time of a global health and economic crisis, some UN officials, such as the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, are calling for lifting sanctions around the world.
COVID-19: The Transformation of Emmanuel Macron
Something odd has happened to French President Emmanuel Macron since the Coronavirus hit France, writes Joe Lauria.