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BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order

July 11, 2025

At their summit in Brazil, members of the expanding Global South group condemned recent Israeli-U.S. attacks on Iran and Israel’s aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul Rahman reports.

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Chris Hedges: The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

July 10, 2025

The Trump administration’s attack on the courageous U.N. special rapporteur presages a world without rules, where rogue states, such as the U.S. and Israel, carry out war crimes without restraint.

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WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Epstein & the War on Gaza’

July 10, 2025

Ex-Israeli intelligence official Ari ben-Menashe tells CN Live! the U.S. Justice Dept.’s notice that it has no case against clients of the late, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is all tied up in the politics of the Gaza war. Watch the…

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Which One Is the Terrorist?

July 10, 2025

The empire depends on ignorance, says Caitlin Johnstone. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out.

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Australia Obstructed Probe Into Deadly ‘Rainbow Warrior’ Bombing

July 9, 2025

Forty years later, David Robie, the only journalist on board the Greenpeace ship in the weeks leading up to its bombing on July 10, 1985, looks back on this act of French state terrorism in a New Zealand port. 

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Largest US Labor Union Cuts Ties to Major Israel Defender

July 9, 2025

The move marks a challenge to the Anti-Defamation League’s decades of influence over  curriculum related to Israel in U.S. schools.

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Caitlin Johnstone: Making ‘Terrorism’ a Meaningless Word

July 9, 2025

“Terrorism” is just a label that means whatever the Western  empire needs it to mean at a given time and place.

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Trump’s California Protest Crackdown & the Law

July 8, 2025

Portland in 2020, Los Angeles today — Karen J. Greenberg covers the maximalist view of executive power emerging from Trump’s response to protests against ICE raids.

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Chris Hedges Report: How ‘Paradise Lost’ Revolutionized the World

July 8, 2025

Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions.

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Genocide Made Invisible

July 8, 2025

Despite all the dodging of reality, many Americans now know that mass murder of certain other human beings is a functional U.S. ideology, writes Norman Solomon.

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WATCH: Netanyahu Skewered Outside White House

July 7, 2025

“Bibi, Bibi you can’t hide,” the protestors chanted. “You’ve been charged with genocide.”

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump Dead-Ends Putin

July 7, 2025

For a good long time what’s been happening in Ukraine is nothing more than postwar gore. If you have lost a war but cannot admit it, you are playing the old game of pretend.

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Another IDF Soldier in Gaza Speaks Out

July 7, 2025

“You need to kill them. No matter who it is.” An Israeli soldier speaking anonymously to Sky News provides the latest testimony about indiscriminate slaying of Palestinians.

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Our Coverage of the Ukraine War

July 7, 2025

CN has been ahead of the news on Ukraine, from reporting the coup and warning of nuclear catastrophe as far back as 2015, to news of the war today. Help us to continue our coverage.

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Vijay Prashad: Patents of a Parasitical North

July 7, 2025

Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.

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VIPS: Data Collection Can Be Effective AND Legal

July 5, 2025

Surveillance with AI, robotics and drones threatens privacy and democracy. An independent technical group is needed to monitor U.S. government agencies, enforcing compliance with the Constitution and ending hidden, illegal programs.

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A Different Revolution

July 4, 2025

There were two other original sins, rarely mentioned, that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin.

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Renewing a Desecrated Declaration of Independence

July 4, 2025

If America is to be what the Revolution envisioned on July 4, 1776, a nation governed by laws, then the American people must speak out and defend that vision, writes Dennis Kucinich.

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Independence From Empire Day 2025

July 4, 2025

The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.

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Declare Your Independence From Mainstream Media

July 3, 2025

Americans are losing their chains to the MSM and are turning as never before to online, independent media, the oldest of which is Consortium News.

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