The WikiLeaks publisher saw his free software project as a powerful tool for democracy, writes Nozomi Hayase.
American Ideals at Heart of Assange Extradition Case
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CN Live! Season 2 Episode 3: Jill Stein on Assange and the New McCarthyism
Former Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein joins CN Live! to discuss Doctors for Assange, as well as the growing menace of revived McCarthyism.
Trump Is Third President to Lie About Afghan War Success
After the deaths of 157,000 people at a cost of $2 trillion, corruption is rampant and the carnage continues, writes Marjorie Cohn.
What Trump Didn’t Know About Cultural Locations in Iran
Occupying forces are required to protect numerous buildings and sites, says Colonel Ann Wright. Medical facilities are also protected, but economic sanctions are harming and killing citizens by other means.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Latest & Most Reckless US Imperial Act
Following the U.S. assassination of Soleimani, the Trump administration is leading American conduct abroad into a zone of probably unprecedented lawlessness.
Remembering the FBI’s Vilification of Martin Luther King
In 2017, when the FBI hailed the civil rights leader for PR reasons in a tweet, Ben Norton issued a reminder about the agency’s ugly history.
Part Two of ‘UkraineGate – Inconvenient Facts’
Part Two of a new documentary by Olivier Berruyer, editor of the website les-crises.fr, released in conjunction with Consortium News, delves even deeper into the complicated scandal and Joe Biden’s part in it.
Democrats Let Trump Off the Hook on Iran
Party leaders did not challenge the president’s decision to once again have the U.S. dictate behavior to the rest of the world, writes Jeff Faux.
Hyper Over Russian Hypersonics
The West is out of practice when it comes to serious strategic appraisal of the U.S.-Russian arms race, writes Michael Brenner.
The Authoritarian Dreamscape of the New Wild West
William deBuys reports on the humanitarian and environmental disaster of Trump’s border wall.