The potentially far-reaching case is based on the state constitution, which enshrines the right to a clean and healthful environment, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Youth Plaintiffs in Court Against Montana
Australia, Censorship, Commentary, Disinformation, Media, New Zealand, Press Freedom, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon
Suspended for Providing Balanced News on Ukraine
An editor at Radio New Zealand has been suspended and is under investigation for the time-honored practices of providing balanced and factual reporting, writes Tony Kevin.
WATCH: The Palestine Laboratory & Surveillance Capitalism
Israel uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology they then export around the world to despots and democracies, says journalist Antony Lowenstein.
Advanced Technologies, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Civil Rights, Commentary, Ethiopia, Human Rights, Israel, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Surveillance, U.S., Venezuela, Vietnam
The Israeli Company Hacking Locked Mobile Phones
The use of military grade spyware by Australian government departments means the most personal data stored on mobile phones is no longer secret, writes Antony Lowenstein.
Biden Administration, Campaign 2016, Column, Commentary, Constitution, Legal, Media, Politics, Russiagate, U.S.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Rape of Lady Justice
This is an open-and-shut case of the judiciary being misused to keep Trump out of the political process. Unlike during the Russiagate years, liberal authoritarians know they are operating in broad daylight this time.
Chris Hedges: Requiem for Our Species
The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic destruction.
Campaign 2016, Commentary, Gulf States, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Middle East, Syria, U.S., United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Blinken’s Failed Saudi Visit
Developments during Secretary of State Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia fit with growing speculations about the Gulf Cooperation Council becoming more autonomous of the U.S., writes Abdul Rahman.
Jonathan Swift’s Lilliputian Reasoning
The High Court justice gave short shrift to serious grounds of appeal to stop the extradition of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, reports Tareq Haddad.
Where Do You Get Your Ukraine News?
If it’s from the established media you’re not getting the full story. And you are being purposely misled.
Wildfires: Oil Giant Influenced Canada’s Carbon Plan
As news of Suncor’s involvement with the Canadian government’s carbon plan broke, smoke from raging wildfires in the country was choking large parts of the neighboring U.S.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Insanity of Solitary Confinement
The research on its effects on mental health is clear: Nothing good comes of solitary. It is a living example of the failure of the both the U.S. prison system and the U.S. mental healthcare system.
Big Agriculture Squeezing Argentina
The South American country has more than enough arable land to feed its 46 million people, writes Vijay Prashad. But during the rise of agribusiness, hunger and landlessness is growing and spawning new forms of protest.
Development Banks Fund Factory Farming in Ecuador
A report detailing dire consequences for Indigenous people in an Ecuador province comes amid a push on new World Bank President Ajay Banga to end asupport for destructive, high-emitting livestock operations.
American Empire, Asia, Australia, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, India, Militarism, Pentagon, Philippines, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
US Pushing into Troubled Waters with China
China’s defense minister has made it clear that his government is open to dialogue with Washington, writes Vijay Prashad. However, he has put forward a precondition – mutual respect.
High Court Denies Assange Right to Appeal Putting Him Perilously Close to Extradition
The High Court of England and Wales in a three-page decision rejected all eight grounds for appeal, opening Julian Assange up to extradition to the U.S.
Biden Administration, Cold War, Commentary, Russia, Soviet Union, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
How JFK Would Pursue Peace in Ukraine
Kennedy’s Peace Speech, 60 years ago, highlights how Joe Biden’s approach to Russia and the Ukraine War needs a dramatic reorientation, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
John Pilger: On ‘Real Journalism’
The all-time great journalist, author and filmmaker has had a long association with this website. Writing for Consortium News is like “writing for a newspaper again,” says Pilger.
9/11 Families Denounce ‘Sportswashing’ Saudi Golf Deal
While relatives of people killed on Sept. 11 expressed outrage, some members of U.S. Congress welcomed news of the PGA-LIV Golf merger, which comes in a week when the U.S. secretary of state was visiting the Saudi kingdom.
American Empire, Biden Administration, Cold War, Commentary, Egypt, Europe, France, Germany, India, Julian Assange, Military, Russia, Soviet Union, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
US in Throes of Unexceptional Imperial Decline
Empires built on dominance achieved through a powerful, expansionist military necessarily become ever more authoritarian, corrupt and dysfunctional, writes William J. Astore. Ultimately, they are fated to fail.
Patrick Lawrence: Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? No, Yes, No–Yes
A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.