Category: International

UK Came & Went, Leaving Europe in a Mess

January 30, 2020

As Great Britain returns to the uncertainties of the open sea, it leaves behind a European Union that is bureaucratically governed to serve the interests of financial capital, writes Diana Johnstone.

Part Three of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’

January 29, 2020

Part Three of a new documentary by Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, continues the probe into the complicated scandal and Joe Biden’s part in it.

Trump Gives Away the Store and Israel Will Now Officially Become an Apartheid State

January 29, 2020

Ignoring past Israeli prime ministers who warned that annexation of the West Bank would introduce legal apartheid to Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said the first phase of annexations would go to the Cabinet on Sunday, reports Joe Lauria.

The Holocaust, BBC & Anti-Semitism Smears

January 28, 2020

Israel has proven particularly adept at inverting and weaponizing a form of identity politics, writes Jonathan Cook.

Secret Reason Rx Drugs Cost So Much: Global Web of Patent Laws Protects Big Pharma

January 28, 2020

Patents and other intellectual property rights allow the multinationals to evade competition for years on end, writes Faisal Chaudhry.

Why the New Silk Roads are ‘Threat’ to US Bloc

January 28, 2020

The Middle East is the key to wide-ranging, economic, interlinked integration and peace, writes Pepe Escobar.

Assange Extradition Hearings Scheduled as Assault on Press Freedom Spreads

January 27, 2020

The day after journalist Glen Greenwald was charged with cyber crimes in Brazil, the timetable for the WikiLeaks publisher’s extradition case was set in London, writes Nozomi Hayase.