The former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan has testified about an alleged plot from SNP insiders against the former first minister Alex Salmond, an allegation that is rocking Scottish politics, reports Joe Lauria.
The absence of evidence that harm was done makes the case against Craig Murray look frankly rather abstract. It is not obvious what the point of the case is, writes Alexander Mercouris.
Ahead of Ecuador’s Feb. 7 presidential elections, Vijay Prashad describes the measures the U.S. and local oligarchy have taken to suffocate any progressive government.
A UN body determined five years ago today that Julian Assange was being arbitrarily detained in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Watch this live simulcast about that assessment & Assange’s current status as he awaits a U.S. appeal in his…
The Biden administration can help end the mockery that has been made of the international community’s “no one left behind” slogan, writes Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
The review commissioned by Britain’s Treasury was hailed by some environmentalists but one prominent climate activist slammed its “natural capital agenda” for putting a price tag on nature.
In marking the anniversary of the Egyptian uprising, it is deceptive to celebrate a revolution. The word “revolution” has been bandied about a lot since 2011, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
Almost unknown in the U.S., Hajjar heckled Ben-Gurion, joined the civil rights movement in the South, and lost his job with the PLO for allegedly insulting Arafat.
Ann Wright reports that Blinken, rather than acknowledging the danger of these exercises, has criticized their suspension as an appeasement of Pyongyang.
Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky call for an investigation of the failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi and others to break the chain of the infection.