Critics said the designation, based on a Bush-era 9/11 executive order, puts pro-Palestine civil disobedience on equal footing with Al-Qaeda, Julia Conley reports.
US ‘Terror’ Label on Palestine Action Threatens Speech
Analysis, Britain, CN Live!, Commentary, Genocide, History, Israel, Legal, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Nazism, Palestine, U.N. Security Council, United States, Zionism
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘A Victory Over Zionism’
This month four English court cases have struck blows at Zionism. We speak to David Miller whose right to criticize Zionism was upheld by a tribunal in London. Watch the replay!
American Empire, Anti-Colonialism, Colonialism, Commentary, Economy, History, Human Rights, Income Inequality, Indigenous People
Vijay Prashad: The Roots of Capitalism
Steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.
Patrick Lawrence: The US Seeing Itself & Others as They Are
Imagine the consequences for the empire’s managers were Americans to understand others and have some grasp of how they look upon the world.
Books, Civil Rights, Commentary, Religion, Right Wing, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Constitution
Holy Texas
Lawrence Davidson on the problems with the Texas Board of Education’s effort to institutionalize a fundamentalist form of Christianity through public schools.
UK Funded Therapy for Israeli Soldiers
British taxpayers subsidised “therapeutic healing” for IDF soldiers after Israeli charity claimed Gift Aid, Martin Williams reports.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Canada & Creeping US Isolation
Canada is not alone in believing that to resist the Trump regime’s aggressions, lawful or otherwise, on the field of battle or at the mahogany table, is what must be done.
American Empire, Analysis, Assange extradition, Chile, China, CN Live!, Cold War, Commentary, Consortium News, Foreign Policy, Free Speech, Germany, History, Intelligence, Iran, Iran-Contra, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Julian Assange, Middle East, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, Protests, Robert Parry, Russia, Russiagate, Soviet Union, U.S. Congress, United Nations, United States, Vietnam, VIPS, WikiLeaks, Zionism
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘A Life of Intelligence’
Ex-C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern turned 87 Tuesday. From his Bronx days, to Fordham, the U.S. Army and C.I.A., McGovern grew close to power, then became one of its fiercest critics. Watch the replay!
China, Commentary, International, Iran, Israel, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, WMD
A Nuclear-Sanity Appeal to Pope Leo XIV
In an open letter, signatories from around the world call on the pope to organize an emergency international summit to address questions of peace and nuclear disarmament.
Colombia, Commentary, Israel, Latin America, Palestine, Slovenia, Syria, U.S., United Nations, Venezuela, Zionism
Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive
Ramzy Baroud on the dangerous turning point Colombia’s new government represents for pro-Palestine and pro-Arab positions worldwide.
Hedges Report: Former US Army MD’s Congressional Bid
Dr. Adam Hamawy says that to move forward, the Democrats must embrace an anti-war, economically progressive agenda, and abandon the categories of left vs. right.
Critics Call for Probe of ‘Book-Burning’ by AI Giants
In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, a coalition of U.S. civil society groups call AI giants’ mass book buying and destruction an effort to “corner the essential inputs of AI development.”
ICE Wants Americans’ Emails
The federal government does not possess a general police power to investigate people because of what they think, believe, say, read, write or post, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
Analysis, CN Live!, Colonialism, Commentary, Genocide, History, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Military, NATO, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey, United States
WATCH: TWTW — Neo-Israelites vs. Neo-Ottomans
Tensions soar between Tel Aviv and Ankara over their designs on Syria; would Trump nuke Iran? And the killing goes on in Ukraine and Gaza. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, 8pm Tonite.
‘Barclays 5′ Palestine Activists Won’t Be Tried as Terrorists
A U.K. judge ruled Friday that the damage protesters caused at a bank branch was not enough to merit terrorism sentencing, Dania Akkad reports. Sentencing is on Sept. 4.
The Deplorable Extremism of the ‘Moderates’
The New York Times applies the soothing “moderate” label to those aligned with a brutal status quo at home and abroad, writes Norman Solomon. What’s so moderate about genocide?
US Meddling In Brazilian Elections
Alan MacLeod covers Washington’s attempts to put another Bolsonaro in power in Brazil, the most populous country in Latin America and a bulwark against U.S. regional dominance.
UK Jury Refuses to Convict 7 From Palestine Action
After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges of organizing a raid on an Israeli weapons plant and the defendants were discharged Wednesday.
Israel Admits Firing on Hind Rajab’s Car & Ambulance
In addition to contradicting the IDF’s previous denials about killing the 5-year-0ld, Israel said it would probe the March 2025 massacre of rescue workers in Rafah, but not that of World Central Kitchen workers in April 2024.
Israeli Mole Inside the UN
U.N. spokespeople are deflecting questions about a Drop Site News investigation of alleged spying by staffer Yahav Lichner in 2014 and 2015, Dulcie Leimbach and Damilola Banjo report.