“It’s not just Trump.” Mark Curtis reports on the U.K.’s scramble for Ukraine’s natural resources.
Britain Wants Ukraine’s Minerals Too
Navigating US-China Tensions
Canberra’s failure to detect live-firing by Chinese warships has exposed weaknesses in Australia’s defence, which in just a couple of weeks has changed for the worse, writes Peter Cronau.
Caitlin Johnstone: Zionism Is Strangling Free Speech in Australia
The real anti-Semitism problem in society is the way ruling institutions keep lumping all Jews in with the abuses of a genocidal apartheid state and the Western empire which supports it.
Israel’s Threatening Colonialism
“Watching their territories being devoured” — Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries could find themselves facing the same predicament as Syria today, warns Ramzy Baroud.
Censorship, Commentary, Labor, Media, Politics, Protests, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Congress, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
The Chris Hedges Report: Media-Led Autocracy
Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media.
Analysis, Campaign 2016, Intelligence, Julian Assange, Legal, Politics, Russiagate, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., WikiLeaks
FBI Redactions on Seth Rich Index Leave No Answers
The F.B.I. met a court-ordered deadline to provide an index of files on slain DNC-staffer Seth Rich’s two computers, but more than 300 pages of redactions shed no light on an alleged connection to WikiLeaks, reports Joe Lauria.
RAY McGOVERN: Gabbard Defangs Ex-Intel Officials
DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s action to strip the security clearances is a clear warning that her boss told her to shut down the deep-state cottage industry of former spies able and willing to interfere in U.S. elections.
Outrage at Israel for Cutting Power to Gaza Water Plant
“Ceasefire Israeli-style” — the act of collective punishment comes as negotiators are meeting in Qatar over the terms of the second phase of the ceasefire deal.
Commentary, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration, United Nations
International Law’s Fight for Relevance
Ramzy Baroud on the possibility that West-centered legal institutions are capable of change.
Jonathan Cook: BBC’s ‘Road to Oct 7’ an Utter Travesty
The series serves Israel’s interest in reviving the genocide in Gaza and spreading Netanyahu’s ethnic cleansing operations to the West Bank.
Analysis, Campaign 2016, CN Live!, Commentary, Election 2016, Intelligence, Julian Assange, Russia, Russiagate, U.S., WikiLeaks
FBI Due to Release List of Seth Rich Files Monday
A federal judge in Texas ordered in a FOIA case against the F.B.I. that the bureau must produce an index of the contents of Seth Rich’s laptop computers by Monday, reports Joe Lauria.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Epstein Follies
There appears to be a good chance that Trump and his people have concluded that there is a fine line between attacking the Deep State and going along with it.
Commentary, International, Israel, Julian Assange, Legal, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept.
Team Trump’s Questionable Opening Moves on Epstein
It is unlikely that a wayward F.B.I. field office is the full explanation for Attorney General Bondi’s fiasco of a document release, writes Elizabeth Vos.
Jonathan Cook: Israeli Hostages & the Ceasefire
There is a pressing reason to keep our attention focused on the role of the Hannibal directive, writes Jonathan Cook. It relates to what is happening right now.
Vijay Prashad: Washington’s IMF Stranglehold
In the deeply undemocratic institution, the U.S. effectively holds a veto over any major changes and molds policies according to its whims.
Taking Rights Seriously
A right is not a privilege, says Andrew P. Napolitano. A right is an indefeasible personal claim against the whole world. It does not require a government permission slip.
Afghanistan, Biden Administration, Campaign 2016, Campaign 2024, Commentary, Gaza, Iraq, Israel, Militarism, Palestine, Politics, Terrorism, Trump Administration, U.S.
The Warfare State & Trump’s Rise to Power
While the military industrial complex seems all too natural to most politicians and journalists, Norman Solomon says its consequences have transformed U.S. politics.
Biden Administration, Commentary, NATO, Russia, Turkey, U.S., Ukraine, United Nations, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Jeffrey Sachs: Negotiating Lasting Peace in Ukraine
Ukraine will have to cede more territory than it would have in April 2022 — when the U.S. and U.K. talked it out of a peace deal — but it will gain sovereignty and international security arrangements.
Britain & Pinochet’s Escape From Justice
Declassified files from 25 years ago show how the U.K. government allowed Chile’s former dictator to evade extradition to Spain, John McEvoy reports.
Commentary, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Palestine, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
The Lost ‘Arab’
Ramzy Baroud on the isolation of Palestine, from physical sieges and military occupation into the realm of language.