Hill+Knowlton Strategies has worked for ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and Saudi Aramco and is managing communications for Egypt’s presidency of the U.N. climate conference, Ben Webster and Lucas Amin report.
Big Oil PR Firm Helps Egypt Organize COP27
Category: International
The Last Thing Haiti Needs Is Another Military Intervention
Waves of invasions have prevented the country from securing its sovereignty and have prevented its people from building dignified lives, writes Vijay Prashad.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Arms-Swapper
Antony Blinken has been foraging around for Russian weapons for Ukraine. He even asked Cyprus.
WATCH: Art Exhibit Delves Into WikiLeaks’ World
The “NoisyLeaks!” show at the Projektraum 145 gallery in Berlin “aims to collectively expose and celebrate the historical and cultural heritage of WikiLeaks,” say the organizers. CN Live! reports.
WATCH: ‘Don’t Know How Long He Will Last’: Assange Lawyer
Jennifer Robinson, an attorney for imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, told an event at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra that the future is “very dark” for Assange. CN was there to cover it.
SCOTT RITTER: Nuclear High Noon in Europe
Caitlin Johnstone: The Lunatic Argument That Nuclear Brinkmanship Makes Us Safe
The imperial spinmeisters for the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine are trying to get us to believe that de-escalation is dangerous.
60 Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis
With the conflict in Ukraine putting the world back on the brink, Robert Dodge confronts the false narrative that nuclear weapons make us safe.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Grave New World
Biden’s long-delayed National Security Strategy is the kind of pablum that disguises danger and comes with a price.
Blood in the Archives
Newly declassified files from the National Archives of Australia show how the Department of Foreign Affairs provided PR cover for Indonesia’s genocidal scorched-earth campaign in East Timor, Peter Job reports.