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Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine, Public Health, U.N. General Assembly, United Nations

On the World’s Call for Israel to End Its Occupation

September 23, 2024

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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Analysis, Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Britain, Commentary, Consortium News, Julian Assange, Legal, WikiLeaks

WATCH: New York Celebrates Assange’s Liberation

September 22, 2024

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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American Empire, Analysis, Biden Administration, Britain, Commentary, Foreign Policy, Militarism, NATO, Neoconservatism, Pentagon, Russia, U.S. State Department, Ukraine

JOE LAURIA: The Madness of Antony Blinken

September 20, 2024

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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Biden Administration, Campaign 2024, Column, Commentary, Israel, Militarism, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, United Nations

Patrick Lawrence: The ‘War Party’ Makes Its Plans

September 20, 2024

Volodymyr Zelensky now says he wants to show Biden, and subsequently Harris and Trump, his “plan for victory over Russia.”

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Arts, Censorship, Militarism, U.S.

The ‘Genocide Gentry’

September 20, 2024

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.

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History, Intelligence, Military, Vietnam

US Soldier Who Burned Himself to Death Over Gaza Wins Sam Adams Associates Award for Integrity in Intelligence

September 19, 2024

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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Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.N. Security Council, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon

SCOTT RITTER: 72 Minutes

September 19, 2024

Last weekend, the world came very close to nuclear war.

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Lebanon, Propaganda, Terrorism, U.S., U.S. State Department

Caitlin Johnstone: War Crimes & Western Hypocrisy

September 19, 2024

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

September 19, 2024

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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American Empire, Books, Column, Commentary, Israel, Palestine, U.N. General Assembly, U.S., United Nations, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Defending Humanity

September 19, 2024

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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Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, Russia, U.N. General Assembly, U.S., U.S. State Department, Ukraine, United Nations

Two Men Who, if Allowed, Could Decide Humanity’s Fate

September 18, 2024

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.

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Commentary, Scotland, United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Whither Scottish Independence?

September 18, 2024

Ten years later, John Wight looks back on the referendum for Scottish independence of Sept. 18, 2014.

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Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, NATO, Saudi Arabia, Syria, U.S.

AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Iran’s Crucial Decision on Israel

September 18, 2024

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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Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine, U.N. General Assembly, U.S., United Nations

The World’s Chance to Confront US-Israeli Genocide

September 17, 2024

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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Civil Rights, Commentary, International, Labor, Legal, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance

September 17, 2024

“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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Biden Administration, Campaign 2024, Column, Commentary, Politics, Russia, Russiagate, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., Ukraine

JOHN KIRIAKOU: ‘Russian Interference’ 3.0

September 17, 2024

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.

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Advanced Technologies, Biden Administration, Commentary, NATO, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon

Ukraine War Turns Into Russian Roulette

September 16, 2024

Biden is escalating the war to create new facts on the ground before his presidency ends in January, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.

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Advanced Technologies, Biden Administration, Campaign 2024, China, Commentary, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, Pentagon, Russia, Soviet Union, U.S., U.S. Congress, Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Harris, Trump & the Race to Oblivion

September 16, 2024

The next administration will be confronted with distinctly ominous decisions about the already monstrous U.S. nuclear arsenal, writes Michael Klare.

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Biden Administration, Campaign 2024, Commentary, COVID-19, Election 2024, Israel, Obama Administration, Politics, Press Freedom, Russia, Russiagate, Trump Administration, U.S., Ukraine, Vietnam

The Chris Hedges Report: Betrayal of the Liberal Class

September 16, 2024

“Like a Stepford Wives convention” — Comedian Jimmy Dore looks back on the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

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Books, Colonialism, Commentary, Human Rights, India, Israel, Palestine, Soviet Union, Theater

Vijay Prashad: How Revolutionary Fire Starts

September 14, 2024

In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same.

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