Americans who stand for peace with Russia – and for peace with the world at large – have lost a towering intellectual leader and a defender of their cause, writes Gilbert Doctorow.
Human rights are only ever a concern for member states of the U.S. empire — such as the home country of the WikiLeaks founder — when they can be leveraged against nations outside the power alliance, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Misgivings about who ran this site can co-exist with legitimate alarm about combined attacks by the FBI, the Times and other corporate media on the political nature — not the accuracy — of its content, writes Joe Lauria.
Eight years of misdirection by the corporate media has laid the ground for the current public indifference to Assange’s extradition and widespread ignorance of its horrendous implications, writes Jonathan Cook.
Craig Murray recalls a time when Britain had decolonized almost entirely in a remarkably swift quarter century and the Last Night at the Proms seemed harmless.
Caitlin Johnstone calls QAnon a propaganda construct designed to manufacture support for the status quo among people who otherwise would not support it.