Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington
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Obama’s Election-Eve Call to Mamdani
The former president had an obvious reason to favor the Democratic frontrunner in the New York mayor’s race with a weekend call, writes Corinna Barnard. Mamdani is winning.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: My Bigotry Is Better Than Yours
Graham Platner, a combat veteran running a Democratic primary campaign for a Maine seat in the U.S. Senate, is getting hit with caricatures, which is the worst form of bigotry. Let’s look at him in 3-D.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Voices of Many Jews
This very welcome letter marks out the significantly worsening alienation between world Jewry and the Zionists’ defacement of the Judaic tradition.
Chris Hedges: The Speech a Press Club Banned
The National Press Club of Australia in Canberra canceled an engagement with journalist Chris Hedges after it was announced on its website. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney.
Hedges Report: Inside America’s Academic Gulags
It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.
Patrick Lawrence: Yes, It’s Genocide
Now the countless images of starving Palestinians — men, women, children, ordinary people, doctors, nurses, aid workers — have pushed matters to the point we can now call genocide by its proper name.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: John Pilger — Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target — China.
RAY McGOVERN: The Deep State’s Burst Appendix
RUSSIAGATE UPDATE: A newly released 29-page secret Appendix to the Durham report reveals even more damning evidence that the Russiagate affair was a stitch-up from the get-go.
Caitlin Johnstone: Mainstream Voices Sudden Pivot on Gaza
It’s a symptom of Western civilization’s sickness that prominent people are only now expressing qualms about the prolonged and monstrous abuses Israel has been committing in plain sight.