The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem.
Mick Hall reports on the Pacific Islands Forum taking place this week against a backdrop of simmering violence between French security forces and protesters in New Caledonia.
Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the U.S. in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes.
Jim Hightower says a President Harris decision to keep or remove Lina Khan at the FTC will be an early measure of her commitment to economic democracy.
The “saviour of free speech” is cracking down on criticism of Israel’s genocide, writes Jonathan Cook.
After some anti-immigrant protesters turned violent in England this month, ordinary Britons turned up to confront them.
Failing to restore military or strategic deterrence, Tel Aviv is invested in restoring the element of fear that was breached on Oct. 7, writes Ramzy Baroud.
It is illogical to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza over the last 10 months as defensive, writes M. Reza Behnam.
Washington is endeavoring to cement Israel as the preeminent military-economic linchpin of a U.S.-led regional order, writes Tariq Dana.
CN Live! discussed the four-day Democratic National Convention with guests Margaret Kimberley and Niko House.
Jeffrey D. Sachs says the U.N. should investigate the charges that Imran Khan and Sheik Hasina have leveled against Washington.
India is now flanked on the west and the east by two unfriendly regimes that are under U.S. influence, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
In the wake of the Medhurst arrest, Alexander Mercouris looks back at the genesis of the Terrorism Act under which the journalist was held.
Privacy is the most violated of personal rights, writes Andrew P. Napolitano, as government agents evade the natural right to privacy and pretend the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to them.
Consortium News‘ CN Live! interviewed British journalist Richie Medhurst about his arrest last Thursday by British authorities because of his “opinions” and “beliefs” under the so-called Terrorism Act.
When you’re siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you’re as insanely hawkish as it gets.
In Australia, the U.S. has been quietly expanding and refocussing its “most important surveillance base in the world,” preparing it to fight a nuclear war against China, writes Peter Cronau.
Former British diplomat Craig Murray discusses the case of journalist Richie Medhurst and his arrest under the U.K. Terrorism Act.
It is legal in U.K. law to support Israel’s genocidal and illegal acts of colonial occupation, but illegal in U.K. law to support Palestine’s legal acts of armed resistance to colonial and racist occupation.
The speech that referred to Palestinian suffering was a journey into a universe of political guile from a president who had just approved sending $20 billion more weapons to Israel, writes Norman Solomon.