The Crown Prosecution Service won’t release files on how the Labour leader blocked a former Israeli official’s arrest over alleged war crimes in Gaza in 2008, John McEvoy reports.
Censored: Keir Starmer’s Emails About Israeli War Crimes Case
China, Consortium News, France, Germany, India, International, Iran, Japan, Media, Saudi Arabia, Social Media, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine
New: Consortium News Introduces International Editions
Consortium News on Wednesday formally launches separate international editions of its publication in 103 languages, including German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Swahili, Arabic, Hindi, Russian and Chinese.
Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Commentary, Julian Assange, Legal, Media, Military, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., United Kingdon, War Crimes, WikiLeaks
Assange’s ‘Reprieve’ Is Another Lie
The U.S. has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so, writes Jonathan Cook. The real goal is to keep him endlessly locked up.
Books, Commentary, Israel, Julian Assange, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom, U.S. State Department, WikiLeaks
Chris Hedges: PEN America Self-Destructs
In May 2013 Hedges resigned from PEN America when it appointed former State Department official Suzanne Nossel to run it. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state, including on Julian Assange.
Assange’s Fate Awaits US ‘Assurances’
The High Court on Tuesday rejected six Assange grounds for a new appeal, agreeing he had only three legitimate arguments but that the U.S. could nullify them with new “assurances,” reports Joe Lauria.
Draft UN Report Calls for Arms Embargo on Israel
The U.N. Human Rights Council’s advance, unedited report calls for an immediate arms embargo on Israel and international protection for Palestinians in the occupied territories, among other recommendations.
WATCH: US Abstains on UN Ceasefire Resoluton
The first resolution calling for a ceasefire was passed at the U.N. Security Council after months of trying when the United States on Monday abstained rather than issue another veto.
Secret US Intel Operation in New Zealand Exposed
A former New Zealand prime minister says Washington is the likely culprit behind a signals intelligence system that, according to a report, existed for nearly a decade without the government knowing.
WATCH: Nabbed Stopping Military Shipment to Israel
Consortium News was in Port Botany in Sydney, Australia on Sunday to capture these dramatic images of police aggressively arresting protestors trying to block export of military aid to Israel.
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VIPS MEMO: The French Road to Nuclear War
France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people – or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden.
How Western Media Built the Case for Genocide
From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalized accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are serving as propagandists, writes Jonathan Cook.
The ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Beneath its thoughtful veneer, Noah Feldman’s recent article in Time is just another attempt to silence opponents of the Israeli state, writes Steven Friedman.
When Criticizing Israel Wasn’t Anti-Semitic
Just two decades ago the difference between anti-semitism and criticism of Israel was clear enough for even a U.S. secretary of state to say so, writes Joe Lauria.
Biden’s Perplexed Policy Prolongs Gaza Genocide
The U.S. president is playing the deadly balancing act of privately demanding that the war stop, while openly funding the Israeli war machine, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Afghanistan, Biden Administration, Commentary, Economy, Iraq, Militarism, Pentagon, U.S., U.S. Congress, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Cutting the Pentagon Down to Size
Making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security, argues William J. Astore.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, U.S., United Arab Emirates, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, War Crimes
Chris Hedges: Israel’s Trojan Horse
The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.
WATCH: Hedges & Finkelstein on Gaza
Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges discuss the Gaza genocide live at 4:30pm EDT Thursday from Princeton University’s McCosh Hall. Watch it here.
Report: Assange in Plea Deal Talks
UPDATED: The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.
Shielding the Nation Starving Gaza
The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they’re doing when they cover Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians as though it’s a weather report, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Authorized Atrocities
Israel’s lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state.