America’s political elites are not powerless to restrain the rogue Israeli regime: They are powerless to act against the grotesque lobby, led by but not limited to AIPAC, to which they have sold themselves.
Patrick Lawrence: Powerlessness
Category: International
Hamas, Israel, & the Fog of October 7
While the overall picture of Oct. 7 has become clearer, an independent investigation is necessary to fully understand the events, writes Robert Inlakesh.
Israel Steps Up Pounding of Gaza & Lebanon at 1-Year Mark
Israel has announced a new phase of its war on Gaza while simultaneously conducting the most severe strikes so far on Beirut.
Israel Lobbied Britain on War-Crimes Arrest Laws
The Israeli government waged a decade-long campaign to protect its officials from criminal proceedings in Britain, leaked files show, John McEvoy reports.
The Year After Al-Aqsa Flood
The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of Western democracy and the illusion of international law, writes Margaret Kimberley.
The Meaning of October 7
The Hamas incursion was less Israel’s 9/11 and more a Palestinian Tet Offensive, says John Wight. No ugly oppression has ever given rise to a pretty resistance.
The Mission to Overcome Miseducation
Too many Americans, through neither malice nor ideology, but through education and upbringing, believe national myths that spread death and destruction, not democracy.
Chris Hedges Report: The Trauma of Occupation
The new documentary Where Olive Trees Weep offers a rare view into the everyday experience and psychological ramifications of occupation.
Reporter Bullied for Question on Hezbollah
Mick Hall covers the latest skirmish as part of a push by politicians and media to amplify condemnations of the Palestinian resistance and ignore Israel’s escalating and genocidal violence in West Asia.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Assange Appears as Mideast Burns’
Craig Murray and Richard Medhurst join CN Live! to discuss Julian Assange’s appearance in Strasbourg and to lend their expert analysis to the blow up in the Middle East.