Turkey’s leader, who nurses dreams of some kind of neo–Ottoman restoration across the Middle East, is now on a reckless tear.
David P. Fidler tells Samira Sadeque that it’s astonishing how communication problems continue to flummox national and international health officials during outbreaks.
Attilio Moro says the children of the left-wing Emilian establishment chose their name to suggest that if they stick together tightly, they are safer and able to protect themselves from the larger fish.
Judge Vanessa Baraitser had a hand-written judgement ready even before she heard the defence argument that Assange be allowed to leave his glass cage, as Craig Murray observed.
UPDATED: A video has appeared showing activists flying a banner reading “#Free Assange” past the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
We are in do or die times, says Caity Johnstone. The only question left is, “Should journalists be jailed for exposing U.S. war crimes? Yes or no?”
With the U.S. and OAS looking the other way, protesters have been subjected to brutally violent repression, Ben Norton reports.
Alka Kurian reports on a striking act of resistance in a patriarchal country where women – but particularly Muslim women – have historically had their rights denied.
Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria discussed the week’s events in London with Chris Hedges.
Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria sat down with former British MP George Galloway in London to discuss the first week of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing at Woolwich Crown Court.
This year, the Iowa Caucus, the State of the Union address and the National Prayer Breakfast all went haywire, writes Andrew Bacevich. Together, they hint at the vulnerability of other pseudo-events.
Consortium News is in London to cover the formal extradition process of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange and has provided updates throughout the week.
The Quincy Institute’s kickoff conference lacked any dramatic moment announcing the arrival of a powerful new voice for radical change in U.S. policy, writes Gareth Porter.
Craig Murray compares Thursday’s proceedings — during which the judge harassed Fitzgerald just as the defense had the prosecution on the ropes — to a Stalin show trial.
What is at stake here, absent any hyperbole, is the very existence of a free press, writes Danny Sjursen.
Caitlin Johnstone issues a reminder that the WikiLeaks publisher not only tried to alert the State Department he also pulled an all-nighter to cleanse the logs of over 10,000 names.
By offering asylum to the persecuted publisher of WikiLeaks, France’s Macron would enhance his status in myriad European latitudes and all across the Global South, writes Pepe Escobar.
With Assange still caged behind bullet-proof glass, lawyers from both sides argued whether international or domestic law would determine whether an extradition can be made for a political crime, as Craig Murray reports.
Jérémie Zimmermann, computer science engineer, friend of Julian Assange and Cypherpunk guest on the 2012 Assange TV series, spoke to CN Live! outside Assange’s courthouse about the miscarriage of justice inside.
Power’s main concern is the ability to conceal itself, writes Jonathan Cook. Instead of making itself visible, it depends on ideas that enslave our minds.