In the middle of a shopping street in Dahiya, our driver pulls up at a checkpoint manned by armed militia in civilian clothes, to see if we could start filming. Then it all starts to go wrong.
Craig Murray: Two Weeks in Beirut
Category: Press Freedom
Tell the British State Journalism’s Not a Crime
Des Freedman on why national news outlets are not covering the crackdown on pro-Palestinian journalists in Britain.
Tooth-Fairy Politics
Trump or Harris, the outcome of this election was never going to make a meaningful difference to the victims of the U.S. empire, whatever we were told, writes Jonathan Cook.
Report: Trump Plans UK-Style Attack on Israel Criticism
Joe Lauria says the Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther,” as covered by Drop Site News, replicates the U.K.’s use of a terrorism law to criminalize pro-Palestine speech and activism.
LISTEN: Roger Waters, Cornel West on World in Crisis
Humanity on the edge: Waters, West, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Joe Lauria joined radio host Randy Credico on Friday.
Chris Hedges: Israel’s War on Journalism
How many foreign reporters are in Gaza? None. The Palestinian reporters who fill the void often pay with their lives.
Winning a Battle Over Control of Our Site
Three days after a massive attack on Consortium News we are back online after winning the battle. But this is a war.
UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry
Politicians across Europe want Britain to investigate why the WikiLeaks founder spent five years in jail, writes Mark Curtis.
Craig Murray: Who Are the Terrorists?
In 1985, the U.K. backed apartheid South Africa and said the African National Congress were terrorists. Now they back apartheid Israel and say Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists. The state can be wrong.
Fighting for More Evidence of Assange’s Political Prosecution
Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi has been in court trying to get some missing emails — or data about them — that could further expose the political motivation behind the prosecution of the WikiLeaks publisher.