Critics said the designation, based on a Bush-era 9/11 executive order, puts pro-Palestine civil disobedience on equal footing with Al-Qaeda, Julia Conley reports.
US ‘Terror’ Label on Palestine Action Threatens Speech
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US House Committee Targets Non-Profit Press Freedom
As part of a probe of leftwing nonprofits, a congressional committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News, the People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
John Bolton & Abuses of the Espionage Act
Chip Gibbons says the Trump administration should not be using the Espionage Act against Bolton, who himself used the overly broad, archaic law as a tool for political persecution.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘A Turning Tide? Assange & Netanyahu’
Two rare occurrences this week raise questions about the effects of political pressure on the established order.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The War on Journalism’
With DC Action for Assange, CN Live! screened Juan Passarelli’s film The War on Journalism in Washington Sunday, followed by discussion with Passarelli, Daniel Ellsberg, James Goodale, John Kiriakou, Stefania Maurizi, Cathy Vogan and Chip Gibbons. Watch the replay.