With an eye on a major climate gathering in November, Marcy Winograd says a veterans’ group wants the White House to apologize for the way Pelosi unnecessarily escalated tension in the Asia Pacific.
US-China Climate Talks in Tatters
Category: International
Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine Gets CBS to Retract Critical Report
It’s not just critical commentators who see the Western press as propagandists. It’s how they see themselves.
UK Energy Workers Plan More Walkouts
Should the actions develop into full blown strikes, they could have the capacity to shut down much of the U.K. economy, Adam Ramsay reports.
A Rational Conversation about China
The U.S. is provoking a conflict due to its own anxieties about Beijing’s economic advances, writes Vijay Prashad. We should not let ourselves be drawn in.
Zimbabwean Journalists Arrested Under Cybersecurity Law
The crackdown on journalists is escalating in the run-up to elections next year, Ignatius Banda reports.
US Watches as Cuban Fire Rages
The Biden administration is not offering meaningful assistance to contain a potential ecological disaster 90 miles from the U.S. coastline, write Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Tunisia’s New Constitution Cements Autocracy
As`ad AbuKhalil says a true Arab democracy would restrain U.S. influence and criminalize normalization with Israel.
Caitlin Johnstone: Lady Gaga & ‘Everything China Fears’
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech only exist on the fringes of Western society, in such small numbers that they make no difference.
Biden’s Assassination of Al-Qaeda Leader Was Illegal
Since Zawahiri did not pose “an immediate international threat,” Marjorie Cohn says he should have been arrested and brought to justice in accordance with the law.
Killing Children in ‘Self Defense’
Nobody can tell you how many children have been killed by drone strikes or “targeted” missiles and bombings in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen or Libya, writes Craig Murray.