CN Live! speaks to author Anthony Hayward, producer Chris Martin, journalist David Boardman, and Tom Giles, head of ITV Current Affairs, about the films of legendary journalist John Pilger and their working relationships with him.
If the purpose of the leaks was to wake up the American people and the U.S. government to the danger posed by an Israeli strike against Iran, it appears that the mission so far has failed.
Congress has not declared war on Iran; nor has it authorized the use of U.S. military forces against it, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Yet the White House says it is sending around 100 troops to Israel.
Marjorie Cohn reports on the Parliamentary Assembly’s “political prisoner” resolution, including its alarm that the C.I.A. “was allegedly planning to poison or even assassinate” the WikiLeaks publisher.
In the long term, this indiscriminate violence waged by Netanyahu and those driving Middle East policy in the White House creates adversaries that, sometimes a generation later, outdo in savagery — we call it terrorism.
Israel’s bombing of Beirut mirrors its harsh attacks on Gaza and symbolises the disdain for human life that characterises both Israeli and U.S. warfare.
In a traditional trial of the Gitmo defendants, versus a plea agreement, George W. Bush et. al. could be indicted and tried in foreign countries for war crimes, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Israel plans to humiliate Iran and its allies to an extent that a full-on regional war, in which the United States will fight alongside them, becomes inevitable.