The two Pulitzer-prize winning journalists discuss what to expect from Joe Biden and the role of the Democratic Party in pressuring social media companies to censor its content, on the program On Contact.
The U.S. has filed an appeal in London against a British judge’s decision to block Julian Assange’s extradition on health grounds.
Matt Motta says high refusal rates in the U.S. could jeopardize population immunity.
From Sputnik V incentives in Russia to Brexit braggadocio in Great Britain, Covid-19 vaccination brings out distinctive national politics.
UN special rapporteurs sign a statement decrying the attack but also calling on U.S. authorities to ensure “responses are consistent with international human rights standards.”
Fevered reporting about efforts to abduct and even kill members of Congress and the vice president are without foundation, the Justice Department admitted, after prosecutors falsely asserted such a plot in court, Joe Lauria reports.
The U.S. empire is ugly and creepy. That’s why so much effort goes into keeping the public from looking at it directly, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Watch CN Live!‘s simulcast on Sunday of the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee’s production of Nils Melzer & Ray McGovern discussing the Julian Assange case and its impact on press freedom.
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Chris Hedges and CN Editor Joe Lauria discuss Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decisions to both block WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States and to deny him bail.
The organizers of the Trump rally on Jan. 6 had no permit for a march to the Capitol and tried to warn the White House that it would be illegal, reports Greg Palast for Consortium News.
William J. Astore says that in America’s collective stockade of the mind, activism for peace is an aberration, while acceptance of the war state is second nature.
The constituency that Trump has assembled will continue to flourish as long as the social and economic crisis spirals further out of control, writes Vijay Prashad.
Social media and the AI behind it are among the multiple crises we can no longer ignore as capitalism reaches the end of a trajectory, writes Jonathan Cook.
As many as 198,000 voters in the state of Georgia were kicked off the voting list before last week’s Senate run-off elections, falsely listed by the secretary of state’s office as having moved.
Trump has been impeached again and this time the Republican-controlled Senate may convict to keep him from running in 2024, as Democrat-aligned big tech moves to shut him up, reports Joe Lauria.
Caitlin Johnstone condemns the U.S. designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization and the scarce media coverage of the Saudi-led conflict’s deadly toll.
We look back at the origins of the U.S.-backed Saudi war on Yemen and at a UN peace deal, sabotaged by Riyadh, that was close to preventing the war, as Joe Lauria reported in May 2015.
Another federal execution was just carried out early Wednesday. Two more are scheduled for this week after both stays were lifted. Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg reports on these last three cases and declining U.S. support for the death penalty.
