Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – especially media – they can mould our minds through sustained plot engineering, writes Jonathan Cook.
Jonathan Cook: Media Can Make Us Believe Anything
Category: Israel
Trump Sanctioned ICC Officials & Rights Groups Sued
Supporters of Trump-sanctioned individuals or entities face maximums of $1 million in fines and 20 years imprisonment, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Jonathan Cook: The British State Lost the Argument
Tony Greenstein’s acquittal was not a message the state — or the billionaire-owned media — wanted publicised.
Hormuz: US & Israel Escalated the Known Risks
Washington has converted a military operation into a strategic endurance contest in which Iran possesses an exceptionally powerful economic weapon, writes Dan Steinbock.
Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Board of Pieces
There is no ceasefire in Gaza; no functioning “Board of Peace.” There is only genocide. It changes shape and intensity but not its essence.
Marco ‘McCarthy’ Rubio: Wrong on Cuba & ‘Terrorism’
Those who challenge and protest U.S. policies are not foreign-paid terrorists; Rubio and other Trump appointees are using “McCarthy” tactics to stop dissent, says Ann Wright.
Michael Brenner: Hegemony?
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘An Uncertain War’
Shaky truces are in place in Lebanon and Iran as the belligerents plot their next moves. Can an uncertain war become a certain peace? Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter this week on The World This Week. Watch the replay.
Chris Hedges: Kuwait Holds American Journalist
Kuwait has arrested a fearless Palestinian-American reporter for doing his job and is threatening to imprison him under a set of new and harsh national security laws.
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Back to the Stone Age’
Scott Ritter on The World This Week discusses Donald Trump’s escalating Stone Age War, Emmanuel Macron telling Trump to shut up and F15 Down. Watch the replay.