When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state.
Jonathan Cook: Fairford and a ‘Free Press’
Caitlin Johnstone: Empire Psychosis
Clever manipulators have figured out how to generate vast fortunes by harnessing the restlessness they deliberately stir up within us.
The Tyranny of One Man’s Opinion
The Founders of the U.S. constitutional system separated the sword from the purse and divided governmental power for a reason, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Analysis, Column, Commentary, Consortium News, Free Press, Gulf States, History, Iran, Israel, Media, Russia, Russiagate, Ukraine, United States
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Games Trump & Liberal Media Play
We are looking at a dysfunction that transcends the contest for power between liberal authoritarians — politely called “centrists” these days — and their rightist counterparts.
Vijay Prashad: The Future
Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community and the confidence that tomorrow can be different.
Crimes Against Humanity, Free Speech, Gaza, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Law, Israel, Nazism, Palestine, U.N. General Assembly, United Kingdom
Craig Murray: Losing My Religion
The institutions of international law have failed, as deeply shocking things have happened these past three years as conscious acts of western governments acting in unison. The Genocide in Gaza is only the most obvious.
American Empire, Disinformation, Fascism, Genocide, Human Rights, Income Inequality, Militarism, Racism, Trump Administration
Chris Hedges: Trump & the Age of Evil
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil.
Vijay Prashad: Modernization & Capitalism Aren’t the Same
For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency and transforming social relations.
Analysis, Commentary, Consortium News, Free Press, Free Speech, Media, Press Freedom, Secrecy, Surveillance, Torture, United States
Integrity in Media Is Possible
Can the words “integrity” and “media” even be mentioned in the same breath? ask whistleblowers Coleen Rowley and Tom Drake.
Free Speech, Gaza, Genocide, International, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Press Freedom, Theater, Zionism
Jonathan Cook: A ‘Safe Space’ for Billionaires
Sheeran’s ‘political neutrality’ is a cover story. He’s allowed to grow rich, on condition he denies a platform to anyone holding the billionaire class accountable, says Jonathan Cook.
Pacific Public Broadcasters Target China & Russia
Australia and New Zealand are using their public broadcasters as “soft power” in a geopolitical battle for the hearts and minds of the people of Pacific nations.
Craig Murray: Four Days in Ekaterinburg
One could read the super-Russophobic Guardian in Russia anytime, with no VPN. That alone is sufficient to destroy the simplistic narrative of “free West vs. authoritarian Russia.”
American Empire, Analysis, CN Live!, Colonialism, Commentary, Genocide, History, International Law, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Militarism, Russia, Ukraine, United Nations
WATCH: TWTW — ‘Shameless!’
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu this week used the seat of world diplomacy — established to pursue peace — to spread their vile supremacist ideologies. Ray McGovern & Rick Wolff. Watch the replay.
American Empire, Assassinations, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, United Kingdom, Vietnam
Remaining Silent
If we can’t curb the violence of our own governments, what sense does it make to condemn the violent reactions of the states or movements they attack? asks Jean Bricmont.
Assassinations, Gaza, Intelligence, International Law, Investigation, Israel, Military, Palestine, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
Families Demand Answers on Israel Killing UK Citizens
A U.K. Coroner’s Court has been asked to investigate Israel’s massacre of Gaza aid workers in 2024 and to review surveillance tapes held by Britain’s military, reports John McEvoy.
Jonathan Cook: Media Can Make Us Believe Anything
Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – especially media – they can mould our minds through sustained plot engineering, writes Jonathan Cook.
Jeffrey Sachs: Stop Mad King Donald’s Iran War
Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen
Recognition of Ansar Allah as Yemen’s legitimate interim or transitional government would be a vital step towards Yemen’s desperate need for peace and self-determination, argue Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Defiant Iran Responds to Trump
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Donald Trump Iran will never stop resisting U.S. terror.
What Lavrov Told the UN Security Council
The Russian foreign minister today laid out the facts leading to the war in Ukraine, making the West cover its ears and Ukraine to cover itself in shame.