In the wake of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, Ann Wright recalls other suicides committed in protest against U.S. policies, including by five Americans opposed to the U.S. war in Vietnam.
Killing Oneself to Try to Stop a War
Caitlin Johnstone: He Burned Himself Alive to Turn Eyes to Gaza
We each have own our personal response to Israel’s incineration of Gaza. This was Aaron Bushnell’s.
Books, Civil Rights, Colonialism, Commentary, Human Rights, Ireland, Kenya, Militarism, Police Brutality, Religion, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, War Crimes
A Blueprint for Counter-Insurgency in the West – Pt 1
Britain’s General Sir Frank Kitson, who died in January, left a terrible legacy in Ireland and a model for countering subversion and insurgency elsewhere, writes Mick Hall. First of an article in two parts.
Minister Suspected UK War Crimes in Afghanistan
Richard Norton-Taylor reports on an inquiry in London examining the conduct of elite Special Forces troops in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, including the killing of 33 people in 11 night raids in 2011.
Craig Murray: Mea Culpa on Ukraine
The same powers who fund and arm Ukraine fund and arm genocide by a racial supremacist Israel. My belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment was naive.
Why Putin Went to War
Two years ago Saturday Vladimir Putin explained why he went to war. He said he had no intention to control Ukraine and only wanted to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” it, after the U.S. had pushed Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria.
Biden Administration, Censorship, Commentary, Julian Assange, Media, Press Freedom, U.S. Justice Dept., WikiLeaks
Biden DOJ Indicts Journalist for Tucker Carlson Leaks
Timothy Burke, a Tampa-based media consultant and former Daily Beast staffer, was hit with more than a dozen federal charges this week in an action that raises press-freedom concerns.
Ukraine War at 2-Year Mark With No End in Sight
Despite Ukraine’s loss of Avdiivka, neither Zelensky nor his ministers are making any effort to revive peace talks or seek a political resolution to the conflict, writes Abdul Rahman.
BBC Hamas ‘Exposé’ Obscured Israel’s Genocide
With tens of thousands of Palestinians slaughtered, Panorama chose to hand the microphone over to the very military doing the killing, writes Jonathan Cook.
Censorship, Commentary, Disinformation, Israel, Lobbying, Palestine, Press Freedom, Propaganda, Surveillance, U.S.
From Illegal Israeli Settlements to US Campus Censorship
Alan MacLeod looks into The Network Contagion Research Institute and its new report alleging that Middle Eastern funding of U.S. universities has helped unleash a torrent of anti-Jewish hatred.
US Defends Israeli Occupation at World Court
Among nations participating in the ICJ proceedings on Israel’s occupation, only the U.S. and Fiji are urging the court not to issue an opinion that declares the nearly six-decade occupation of Palestinian territory illegal.
Afghanistan, Biden Administration, Commentary, Iraq, Julian Assange, Legal, Surveillance, U.S., U.S. State Department, United Kingdon, War Crimes, WikiLeaks
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Grand Inquisitor
The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Assange’s Last Stand?’
Chris Hedges and Alexander Mercouris joined CN Live! from London to discuss Julian Assange’s two-day hearing at the High Court.
WATCH: Reporter’s Roundtable Assange Day 2
A panel discussion of the events of Day 2 of Julian Assange’s hearing at the High Court in London, courtesy of Truth Defence.
Analysis, Assange extradition, Britain, Commentary, Julian Assange, Legal, Politics, Press Freedom, War Crimes, WikiLeaks
DAY TWO: US Reinforces Grand Assange Deception
A delusory tale that turns journalism into a unique evil because it exposes secret U.S. crimes was heard in a London courtroom on Wednesday with Julian Assange’s fate yet to be determined, reports Joe Lauria.
WATCH: New York Rally for Assange
Susan Sarandon joined Margaret Kimberley, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Katie Halper and other speakers at the British Consulate in New York on Wednesday in support of Julian Assange.
Assange extradition, Commentary, Julian Assange, Legal, Press Freedom, U.S., United Kingdon, WikiLeaks
Craig Murray: Your Man on Assange’s Final Appeal
The WikiLeaks publisher’s legal trial has been a travesty and charade marked by undisguised institutional hostility. Now we are in the last-chance-saloon at the Royal Courts of Justice.
Afghanistan, Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Commentary, Intelligence, Iraq, Julian Assange, Legal, Mike Pompeo, Press Freedom, Trump Administration, U.S., United Kingdon, WikiLeaks
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange’s Day in Court
Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher — in a final bid on Tuesday to stop his extradition — fought valiantly to poke holes in the case of the prosecution to obtain an appeal.
Biden Administration, Commentary, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Ending the War in Ukraine, Off the Battlefield
In this discussion of the key issues for negotiation, Vijay Prashad says continuing to use military force will only cause further intense suffering.
DAY ONE: Assange Timeline Exposes US Motives
Julian Assange’s lawyers on Tuesday argued before the High Court about why the imprisoned publisher must be allowed to appeal against his extradition order, reports Joe Lauria.