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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Russiagate, U.S.

Trump May be on Trial, but System That Produced Him Will Be Acquitted

February 4, 2021

While Americans get stoked into a mutual tribal partisan loathing by a corporate media, Jonathan Cook says the elite enjoy a free hand to pillage the planet and the commons.

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Intelligence, Legal, News Analysis, Protests, U.S.

Curiouser and Curiouser: The Proud Boys’ Leader as a ‘Prolific’ Law Enforcement Confidential Source

February 4, 2021

Questions should be raised about what role the Proud Boy’s leader may have played in the Capitol uprising, given his past as an FBI confidential source, writes Coleen Rowley.

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COVID-19, Economy, U.S.

COVID-19: Some Democrats Urge Repeal of Tax Cut for Millionaires

February 3, 2021

The tax breaks were in the $2.2 trillion relief bill that Trump signed in March.

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Commentary, COVID-19, Human Rights, International

COVID-19: US, WHO & Vaccine Nationalism

February 3, 2021

The Biden administration can help end the mockery that has been made of the international community’s “no one left behind” slogan, writes Jomo Kwame Sundaram.

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Climate Change, Economy, United Kingdon

Obsession with GDP & Disregard of Nature Leading to Eco Collapse: Report

February 3, 2021

The review commissioned by Britain’s Treasury was hailed by some environmentalists but one prominent climate activist slammed its “natural capital agenda” for putting a price tag on nature.  

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Climate Change, Environment, Legal, U.S.

The Climate Change Lawsuits Against Big Oil

February 2, 2021

Daniel Farber says the most consequential phase of the high-stakes litigation may be during discovery; when the companies make disclosures that could reach the public. 

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Foreign Policy

Biden’s ‘Slimmed Down’ US Exceptionalism

February 2, 2021

The most that Paul Hockenos expects from the new administration’s foreign policy is some tinkering around the edges.

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American Empire, Bahrain, Column, Egypt, History, Intelligence, Israel, Libya, Middle East, Protests, Saudi Arabia, Syria, U.S., United Arab Emirates

Lessons From the 10th Anniversary of the Egyptian Uprising

February 2, 2021

In marking the anniversary of the Egyptian uprising, it is deceptive to celebrate a revolution. The word “revolution” has been bandied about a lot since 2011, writes As’ad AbuKhalil. 

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Economy, Election 2020, U.S.

Chris Hedges: Papering Over the Rot

February 1, 2021

The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions. New window dressing will not end oligarchy.

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Books, Civil Rights, Column, History, Lebanon, Palestine, Racism

THE ANGRY ARAB: Expelled from US in 1969 for His Support of Civil Rights: Who is George Hajjar?

February 1, 2021

Almost unknown in the U.S., Hajjar heckled Ben-Gurion, joined the civil rights movement in the South, and lost his job with the PLO for allegedly insulting Arafat.

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Economy, Health Reform, U.S.

How Big Pharma Pursues ‘Killer Profits’ at Americans’ Expense

February 1, 2021

“Instead of spending on innovation, Big Pharma is hoarding its money for salaries and dividends,” the report says, “all while swallowing smaller companies, thus making the marketplace far less competitive.” 

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Commentary, Economy, Humor

Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style

January 30, 2021

Their operation was in jeopardy, their ‘business model’ at risk. Their reaction was typical for the brazen barons of finance, writes Michael Brenner.

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Commentary, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, U.S.

Treaty Offers Way to Push for US Anti-Nuclear Leadership

January 29, 2021

Washington could be a leader in the “peace race” advocated by Martin Luther King, says Ann Wright. But only if a loud message is sent to U.S.leaders.

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Biden Administration, Climate Change, Environment

Study: Earth Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years

January 29, 2021

The findings were released amid mixed moves by the Biden administration on climate policy.  

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, South Korea, U.S.

Ending US-South Korea Military Exercises Key to Diplomacy

January 29, 2021

Ann Wright reports that Blinken, rather than acknowledging the danger of these exercises, has criticized their suspension as an appeasement of Pyongyang.

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Brazil, Commentary, COVID-19, Human Rights, Legal, United Nations, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

COVID-19: Outrage is Not Enough

January 28, 2021

Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky call for an investigation of the  failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi and others to break the chain of the infection.  

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American Empire, Censorship, Latin America, Media, Mexico, U.S.

Twitter’s Latin America Coordinator Exposed as Right-Wing Operative

January 28, 2021

Ben Norton reports on a wave of social-media censorship in Mexico that has targeted left-wing users.

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Biden Administration, Foreign Policy, Military Industry, Saudi Arabia, U.S., United Arab Emirates

Biden Freezes US Arms Sales to Saudis; Reviews UAE Sales

January 27, 2021

“This is an important first step in ending our material support for war globally, and the genocide in Yemen in particular,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar.

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Biden Administration, Climate Change, Environment

Biden Asks Congress to End $40 Billion in Taxpayer Subsidies for Fossil Fuels

January 27, 2021

“Biden campaigned on eliminating fossil fuel giveaways, and voters agree by a huge margin,” said one climate activist.

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American Empire, Commentary, COVID-19, Media, Race Relations, Racism, U.S.

A Black Traveler Carrying a ‘White’ Passport

January 27, 2021

Vik Sohonie reflects on citizenship apartheid and the case of the American “digital nomad” deported from Bali. 

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Advanced Technologies, American Empire, China, Commentary

Suspicion of Chinese-Born Researchers Threatens US Innovation

January 27, 2021

Caroline Wagner responds to the arrest of MIT engineering professor Gang Chen earlier this month. 

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Biden Administration, Legal, Racism, U.S.

Biden Executive Order Ends DOJ Private Prison Contracts

January 27, 2021

Joe Biden’s order directs the office of the attorney general to “not renew Department of Justice contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities.” 

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Consortiumnews.com, Iran-Contra, Media

Three Years Ago Today…

January 27, 2021

On this day in 2018 Consortium News lost its founder and editor Robert Parry, who succumbed to cancer at 68. We look back on his life in this video of his memorial service held on April 14, 2018.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, Syria, Trump Administration, U.S., Uncategorized

What Biden Wars Will Actually Look Like

January 26, 2021

Once you get beyond the partisan puppet show, Caitlin Johnstone says you see a single oligarchic empire continuing the same murderous agenda. 

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COVID-19, Human Rights, Israel, U.S.

More US Lawmakers Urged to Speak Out Against ‘Vaccine Apartheid’ for Palestinians

January 26, 2021

The progressive Jewish organization IfNotNow questions why more Democrats aren’t decrying Israel’s exclusion of  millions of people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, U.S.

A Test Case for Biden’s Commitment to Diplomacy

January 26, 2021

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold say that Biden should pick one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Middle East to be his Iran envoy.   

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Foreign Policy, International

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden is Already Breaking Promises

January 25, 2021

Tony Blinken will be secretary of state with the élan and faux sophistication the nakedly bankrupt foreign policy requires if the U.S. pantomime is to be sustained another four years.

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American Empire, Column, Commentary, Militarism, Trump Administration, U.S.

THE ANGRY ARAB: Machinations in the Gulf

January 25, 2021

Trump was too busy nursing his grudge to bother with overseas matters, but both his son-in-law and secretary of state rushed through a package of foreign policy initiatives and policies, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.

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Arts, Assange extradition, Britain, CN Live!, Legal, Theater, WikiLeaks

WATCH: ‘WikiLeaks on Trial’ Theater Piece Live!

January 25, 2021

CN Live! simulcasted a production by Hot Potato of ‘WikiLeaks on Trial’ where the public formed the jury.

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Commentary, History, Lobbying, Propaganda, Trump Administration, U.S.

The Political Immortality of Billionaires

January 25, 2021

The heirs of Sheldon Adelson may poison our democracy for decades to come, warns Sam Pizzigati.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Censorship, Commentary

Counter Trumpism By Ending the Conditions That Created It

January 24, 2021

People actually interested in ending Trumpism would be promoting an end to the corruption, opacity, a uniquely awful electoral system, and to neoliberal policies making Americans poorer and poorer, writes Caity Johnstone.

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American Empire, Books, Censorship, Commentary, Cuba, History, Human Rights, International, Media, Militarism, Politics, Vietnam

WATCH: Hedges & Chomsky on the State of the Empire

January 23, 2021

On his program On Contact, Chris Hedges speaks to Noam Chomsky on terrorism, militarism, media & the state of America’s empire, at home and abroad.

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