Ex-Israeli military intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe is in the news, explaining Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long intel work for Israel. But who is this man that Israel has smeared and tried to silence?
A former senior Israeli intelligence officer tells Consortium News’ CN Live! Benjamin Netanyahu can threaten to release unredacted revelations about Donald Trump in the Epstein files to get him to attack Tehran.
Sydney police unleashed a torrent of violence against citizens who were protesting the presence in their city of a man who leads a nation condemned for ongoing genocide.
UPDATED: After protesters stopped trying to march, police horses charged the crowd to clear the front of Sydney Town Hall on Monday. CN was caught in the mayhem.
After the Bondi massacre and new hate laws, a visit to Australia beginning Monday by the Israeli president — named in the ICJ genocide case — is raising tensions, as Herzog seals Israel’s victory in Oz, writes Joe Lauria.
Hiding Epstein’s ties to Israel; new nuclear danger as New START ends; Palestine Action acquitted in London, poised to protest Herzog in Sydney, The World This Week. Watch the replay.
The Grayzone investigated the suspicious PayPal ban by interviewing the small donor flagged by Paypal. What Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal learned “confirms that our account was blocked on political grounds,” he says in the following video.
The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence.
It shouldn’t fall to armed Americans to take on the White House militia because the governor can’t use the National Guard to force ICE out of Minnesota, writes Joe Lauria.
We break down Davos after Trump’s Greenland retreat, Mark Carney’s speech, Zelenksy berating the Europeans and Sy Hersh channeling Ukraine War myths. Meanwhile, Australia outlaws criticism of Israel. 8 pm EST tonight, Saturday.