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.
Chris Hedges: The Speech a Press Club Banned
Category: Central America
Vijay Prashad: An Intellectual Is Nothing Without Confronting Oppression
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.
Latin America’s Long Fight Against the US for Sovereignty
John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin.
How Bob Parry Covered Odessa Fire That Sparked a War
This weekend marks the 11th anniversary of 48 ethnic Russians burnt alive by far-right thugs in Odessa, a massacre that spurred independence declarations in Donbass, leading to civil war in Ukraine and Russia’s eventual intervention.
CHILE 50 YRS: US Scars From 9/11/73
Chile under Pinochet was the experimenting ground for an economic project, neoliberalism, that inspired both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was also a laboratory for torture and enforced disappearance of human beings, writes Brad Evans.
Lula Goes to China
The Brazilian president is joined by a major delegation this week as more than 20 agreements are expected to be signed with the Amazon country’s largest trading partner.
The Victory of ‘Perception Management’
The origins of the Russiagate psyop unleashed on the American people can be traced back to a secret government program unearthed by this site’s founder.
US LABOR DAY: Central American Migrants & US Labor History
Worker wins at Amazon and Starbucks recall a previous period of union success, writes Elizabeth Oglesby.
Staying Out of Troubled Waters
Humberto Márquez reports on the new international non-alignment trend triggered by the war in Ukraine.
Chris Hedges: The Pimps of War
The unaccountable coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.