Israel keeps attacking Al Jazeera, assassinating journalists and bombing press offices for the same reason the mafia kills witnesses. They want to commit their crimes in the dark.
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s War on Journalism
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Craig Murray: Netanyahu Plays Chicken
Israel plans to humiliate Iran and its allies to an extent that a full-on regional war, in which the United States will fight alongside them, becomes inevitable.
Chris Hedges: To the Israeli Soldier Who Murdered Her
Shooting unarmed people is not bravery. It is not courage. It is not even war. It is a crime.
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‘US Weapons Still Flow’ as Israel Strikes Lebanon
Israel’s airstrikes on Monday came a day after Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in what the group called an “initial” response to last week’s device attacks.
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On the World’s Call for Israel to End Its Occupation
Vijay Prashad on the U.N. General Assembly’s resolution last week demanding Israel immediately withdraw from East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank.
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WATCH: New York Celebrates Assange’s Liberation
Assange supporters in Manhattan reflected on Julian Assange’s captivity and cheered his release. With Margaret Kunstler, Margaret Kimberley, Aaron Maté, Katie Halper, Joe Lauria, Jim Kavanagh and more.
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JOE LAURIA: The Madness of Antony Blinken
Two years after the Pentagon shot down his ploy for a no-fly zone against Russia in Ukraine, the U.S. “top diplomat” has been at it again pushing an even more insane idea.
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Patrick Lawrence: The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans
Volodymyr Zelensky now says he wants to show Biden, and subsequently Harris and Trump, his “plan for victory over Russia.”
The ‘Genocide Gentry’
Human rights groups are spotlighting weapons executives on the boards of schools and institutions to show the influence of the corporate, profit-fueled war machine on U.S. cultural life.
US Soldier Who Burned Himself to Death Over Gaza Wins Sam Adams Associates Award for Integrity in Intelligence
In presenting its 2024 award, the Sam Adams Associates says it salutes Aaron Bushnell’s courage in performing a vital public service at the greatest cost — martyrdom — for truth-telling.
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SCOTT RITTER: 72 Minutes
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Caitlin Johnstone: War Crimes & Western Hypocrisy
If some other governments — say Russia, China or Iran — were even suspected of being responsible for Israel’s terror attacks on Lebanon, U.S. officials would be churning out denunciations.
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Gitmo & Politics
Andrew P. Napolitano on a state of affairs unheard of in American jurisprudence, where judges don’t have bosses telling them what guilty pleas to accept and what to reject.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Defending Humanity
In the face of the dangerous U.S. determination to prolong its global primacy, a reform movement to reconstruct our long-abused global institutions merits serious attention.
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Two Men Who, if Allowed, Could Decide Humanity’s Fate
Edward Lozansky says that Zelensky — who will meet Biden in New York during the U.N. General Assembly — desperately wants the U.S. president to give approval for British missiles to fly into Russia.
Whither Scottish Independence?
Ten years later, John Wight looks back on the referendum for Scottish independence of Sept. 18, 2014.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Iran’s Crucial Decision on Israel
Tehran will eventually need to address Tel Aviv, maybe even more so after the pager terrorist attack in Lebanon. But Iran will do so on its own terms, not on the timeline dictated by its enemies.
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The World’s Chance to Confront US-Israeli Genocide
As nations come together in the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, they face both a serious challenge and an unprecedented opportunity, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
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Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
“No act of rebellion, however futile it appears in the moment, is wasted” — a talk by Hedges with an audio introduction by Just Stop Oil’s imprisoned Roger Hallam.
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JOHN KIRIAKOU: ‘Russian Interference’ 3.0
Before breaking down the latest round of “election interference” accusations, let’s look at what Russia’s “sinister” actions amounted to in 2016 and 2020.