To say not much happened during Trump’s two days in the Chinese capital, as a lot of people seem to think, is to miss the forest for the trees.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: History Turned in Beijing
Category: International
OPCW Inadvertently Admitted Burying Critical Evidence on Syria Chemical Weapons Investigation
As part of a legal battle, the chemical watchdog group released a document that shows it concealed information about the deadly 2018 incident in Douma, Aaron Maté reports.
The United States’ Long War on Cuba
A U.S. invasion would only mark the bloodiest phase in an extended bipartisan war against Cuba for the “sin” of reclaiming national sovereignty and providing an example of independence from Empire, writes Eric Ross.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Hitting a Chinese Wall’
A brash, expansionist Donald Trump returned from two days in China, having been schooled by Xi Jinping in what global stability looks like. Watch the replay.
Names of Some US Boat Strike Victims Revealed
Despite the Trump administration’s effort to conceal their victims’ identities, journalists and researchers have disclosed some biographical detail about some of the people “blown away over vast stretches of ocean.”
Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future
Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.
Craig Murray: Hiding the Terrorism Charge
By keeping anti-genocide activists in prison pending sentencing and — unbeknownst to the jury — adding a “terrorism” aggravation, the judge may intend abnormally long sentences.
Hedges Report: A History of Palestine’s Resistance
Ramzy Baroud discusses a people’s history of the Palestinians’ powerful resistance to Zionism in his new book, and its manifestations in today’s national liberation movement.
Judge Blocks Trump Sanctions on Francesca Albanese
The U.N. special rapporteur on Occupied Palestine says the interim decision gives her respite, but that the “battle is not over.”
When Killing Becomes Commonplace
After destroying 56 small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the Trump administration’s murderous attacks have become commonplace but remain illegal and evil, says Andrew P. Napolitano.