The WikiLeaks founder’s “prolonged solitary confinement in a high security prison is neither necessary nor proportionate,” said Nils Melzer on Tuesday.
Michael Klare says it’s impossible to overstate the significance of the Pentagon’s shift in posture during the term of the outgoing president.
The run on the coronavirus vaccine is also about power and image. Dispatches from Argentina, Kenya and Serbia.
The destruction over the past five years of Australia’s mutually beneficial diplomatic and trade relationship with China was probably a successful “Five Eyes” information warfare operation, writes Tony Kevin.
Trump has been defeated, but Ursula Wolfe-Rocca warns that his commitment to institutionalize the teaching of American exceptionalism has not.
Either the national security adviser-designate and other “exceptionalists” are true believers, or rank cynics driven by ambition and enough intelligence or charisma to say what’s needed to justify U.S. aggression, says Danny Sjursen.
The former president’s deception and warmongering killed the “hope and change” he promised on the campaign trail, writes James Bovard.
In March CN Live! was in Paris to film a documentary on the Yellow Vests movement that included footage of French police that under a proposed law, now being rewritten, could have incurred a €45,000 fine.
POSTPONED: Andy Worthington & Thomas Durkin, witnesses at Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, to discus his right to a fair trial in a CN Live! simulcast of a Don’t Extradite Assange production, which has been postponed.
The Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics, Gareth Porter reports.
The current U.S. administration is taking actions — including aiding and abetting murder — to prevent Biden’s incoming team from pursuing diplomacy with Iran, writes Marjorie Cohn.
If those who struck on Nov. 26 formed a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world after China, India, the United States and Indonesia, writes Vijay Prashad.
A new law in Uttar Pradesh adds to the attack on the country’s core values of secularism and pluralism, Betwa Sharma reports.
Cassandra Stimpson and Holly Zhang report on the world of constant military-buildup promotion led by those who would gain most from it.
Craig Murray says atavism and racism are the easiest way to political success, despite the demonstrably catastrophic consequences.
As As’ad AbuKhalil pointed out in a piece earlier today, Fisk showed courage in his critical coverage of Israel, a taboo for Western reporters. James North reflects here on that coverage.
During the Sudanese uprising, Khartoum became a carefully re-mapped city where only the revolutionaries knew its paths, writes Amar Jamal.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers an address on “The State of the Planet” at Columbia University in New York.
Just because Fisk was brave against Israel and opposed Western intervention in the Middle East, it should not stop us from pointing out his incompetence, especially on things Lebanese, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
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