Since Zawahiri did not pose “an immediate international threat,” Marjorie Cohn says he should have been arrested and brought to justice in accordance with the law.
Nobody can tell you how many children have been killed by drone strikes or “targeted” missiles and bombings in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Yemen or Libya, writes Craig Murray.
The U.S. now operates as a bulwark against time and history — a hopeless but destructive project.
The government in Canberra is straining credibility in insisting the Assange case is not a political prosecution, writes Kellie Tranter.
The continent’s political liberation and economic emancipation can’t be one-country affairs, but pan-African combined with international solidarity, writes P. Anyang’ Nyong’o.
The Drucker Institute researchers who authored the article cast unwarranted doubt on Peter Drucker’s views on pay equity, write Sam Pizzigati and Sarah Anderson.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target – China.
For the U.S., it is unthinkable that semiconductor behemoth TSMC could one day be in territory controlled by Beijing, writes Maria Ryan.
The proposal by Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, is another attempt to stage a culture-war spectacle, writes Sita Balani. But these rhetorical games have real consequences.
U.K. troops fire controversial white phosphorus ammunition three times a year near safari resorts in east Africa, risking the health of local people, Phil Miller reports.
Abortion became just one potent weapon in the arsenal of a movement, years in the making, that is ready to flex its power in ever larger and more audacious ways, writes Liz Theoharis.
Six scientists, including Carl Sagan, who proved nuclear war would produce “nuclear winter” were at first dismissed by the establishment. On Saturday they will receive an award as the world is the closest to nuclear war since 1962.
Ranil Wickremasinghe sits in the President’s House with a failing agenda that threatens to draw the country into the escalating U.S.-China conflict, writes Vijay Prashad.
The authors say the latest government report vastly underestimates the scale and scope of the contamination risks many communities will face in the decades ahead.
The demonstration came weeks after the U.S. House passed legislation authorizing $839 billion in military spending for the upcoming fiscal year, rejecting amendments that would have modestly cut Pentagon funding.
Whatever people in the U.S. might think about the killing of al Zawahiri in the middle of the Afghan capital 7,000 miles away, safety and security are hardly likely to top the list, writes Phyllis Bennis.
The imprisonment of Daniel Hale, federal prisoner 26069-075 in Marion, Illinois, is a microcosm of the vast gulag being constructed for all of us.
The Senate majority leader pushed through a funding bill that now supports a structure under which U.S. citizens and politicians — including a challenger for his own seat — are being targeted as “information terrorists.”
The caucus celebrated a couple of victories, Keith Brower Brown and Jane Slaughter report. But on the last day, the ruling faction went on the attack.
The House speaker’s visit also prompted protests from the streets of Taipei to her hometown of San Francisco.