Hill+Knowlton Strategies has worked for ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron and Saudi Aramco and is managing communications for Egypt’s presidency of the U.N. climate conference, Ben Webster and Lucas Amin report.
Big Oil PR Firm Helps Egypt Organize COP27
Rail Cos. Reject Union’s Demand for Paid Sick Leave
A union spokesman said that rail companies — with more than $10 billion in stock buybacks and dividends in the first six months of 2022 — can easily afford to provide workers with paid leave when they are sick.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Cuba, France, Haiti, History, Human Rights, Immigration, U.S., United Nations, Venezuela
The Last Thing Haiti Needs Is Another Military Intervention
Waves of invasions have prevented the country from securing its sovereignty and have prevented its people from building dignified lives, writes Vijay Prashad.
Advanced Technologies, Civil Rights, Commentary, Constitution, Intelligence, Legal, Surveillance, U.S., U.S. Supreme Courrt
US Police Track Innocent People’s Movements With Troubling New App
Fog Reveal raises enormous privacy and civil liberties concerns, writes Anne Toomey McKenna. Yet it may be permissible because the U.S. lacks a comprehensive federal data privacy law.
Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, European Union, Greece, Rwanda, Turkey, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Arms-Swapper
Antony Blinken has been foraging around for Russian weapons for Ukraine. He even asked Cyprus.
WATCH: Art Exhibit Delves Into WikiLeaks’ World
The “NoisyLeaks!” show at the Projektraum 145 gallery in Berlin “aims to collectively expose and celebrate the historical and cultural heritage of WikiLeaks,” say the organizers. CN Live! reports.
WATCH: ‘Don’t Know How Long He Will Last’: Assange Lawyer
Jennifer Robinson, an attorney for imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, told an event at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra that the future is “very dark” for Assange. CN was there to cover it.
Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Europe, Militarism, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
SCOTT RITTER: Nuclear High Noon in Europe
Commentary, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Caitlin Johnstone: The Lunatic Argument That Nuclear Brinkmanship Makes Us Safe
The imperial spinmeisters for the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine are trying to get us to believe that de-escalation is dangerous.
Cold War, Commentary, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
60 Years After the Cuban Missile Crisis
With the conflict in Ukraine putting the world back on the brink, Robert Dodge confronts the false narrative that nuclear weapons make us safe.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Grave New World
Biden’s long-delayed National Security Strategy is the kind of pablum that disguises danger and comes with a price.
Civil Rights, Commentary, Legal, Politics, Race Relations, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Supreme Courrt, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Turning the Tables on Right-Wing Jurists
Marjorie Cohn describes how Ketanji Brown Jackson crafted her own originalist argument to defend taking race into account when drawing voting district maps.
Australia, Cold War, Commentary, East Timor, History, Indonesia, Intelligence, Militarism, Propaganda, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, Vietnam
Blood in the Archives
Newly declassified files from the National Archives of Australia show how the Department of Foreign Affairs provided PR cover for Indonesia’s genocidal scorched-earth campaign in East Timor, Peter Job reports.
Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason
Advanced Technologies, Afghanistan, Africa, Bolivia, Chile, China, Commentary, Environment, Latin America, Russia, U.S.
Electric Cars & Resource Wars
The greatest potential for conflict over battery metals may not be in Asia, Africa or the Americas, write Stan Cox and Priti Gulati Cox. It may not be on any continent at all.
When Will the Stars Align Again for Burkina Faso?
The Sahel coups are against conditions of life afflicting most of the region’s people, writes Vijay Prashad — conditions created by theft of sovereignty by multinationals and the old colonial ruler.
Doctors Urge US & UK to Free Assange After Covid Diagnosis
Doctors for Assange on Monday implored the British home secretary and the U.S. attorney general to release Julian Assange from “extraordinarily cruel” prison conditions that “imperil” his health.
The Response NewsGuard Rejected
On June 2, Consortium News responded to NewsGuard’s allegation that CN was publishing “false content” on Ukraine, a response NewsGuard rejected when it gave CN its red mark.
WATCH: Ask Stella Assange Anything
The wife of imprisoned publisher Julian Assange appeared at the Projektraum 145 art gallery in Berlin on Friday night to answer questions from the public. Consortium News was there.
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