More than 60 MPs and lords want an explanation from the U.K. trade secretary how an illegal arms shipment to Israel was exported from Britain and what will be done about it, John McEvoy reports.
MPs Want Probe of Illegal UK Arms Shipments to Israel
Category: Belgium
UK Arms Shipment to Israel Seized in Belgium
Belgian authorities have refused to name the arms firms that exported the goods amid the opening of a criminal investigation into the matter, John McEvoy reports.
Chris Hedges: The Speech a Press Club Banned
The National Press Club of Australia in Canberra canceled an engagement with journalist Chris Hedges after it was announced on its website. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney.
Vijay Prashad: To Those Who Died So Young
The early deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon and other African revolutionary leaders underline the brutality of imperialism. If a radical appears to lead a people to sovereignty, the radical cannot be allowed to survive.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: How US Spies Secured the Hiroshima Uranium
A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Is the West Dead?’
Extraordinary events last week have called into question the future of the post-war Western alliance. With Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Watch the replay.
Vijay Prashad: The Congo War Will End
The Congolese people do not control their wealth. There is an urgent desire for a project that would bring people together around the shared interests of the majority.
Western Officials Warn of War-Crimes Complicity
The “Transatlantic Civil Servants’ Statement on Gaza” signals mounting dissent inside Western governments over support for Israel’s war on Gaza as famine and disease spread across the enclave.
Qatargate & the Decline of the European Left
A scandal rocking Europe further undermines trust in politicians nominally on the left, writes Attilio Moro.
WATCH: Europe and Press Freedom, with Roger Waters
Brussels Free University presents a discussion on Europe, justice and press freedom: the Julian Assange case, at 1:30 pm EDT today. Live!