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A Hunger Strike Against Big Oil
A Hunger Strike Against Big Oil Ann Wright reports on Diane Wilson’s stand against channel dredging in mercury-laden Matagorda Bay, Texas. Diane Wilson in mid April. (Diane Wilson) Texas shrimper, fisherwoman, author and internationally known environmentalist Diane Wilson on Monday was on Day 27 of her hunger strike to gain national solidarity and publicity to pressure the U.S. Army Corps […]
Britain’s Secret Political Police
Britain’s Secret Political Police A who’s who of the U.K. radical left over the past half century was infiltrated by “spycops,” reports Asa Winstanley, who has personal involvement with this story. New Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London. (Can Pac Swire, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) […]
Biden DOJ Files Appeal to Get Assange Extradited
Biden DOJ Files Appeal to Get Assange Extradited The U.S. has filed an appeal with the High Court in London to reverse a decision by a British judge not to extradite the WikiLeaks publisher on health grounds. The liberal administration of Joe Biden proved itself to be no less an enemy of press freedom than Donald Trump […]
Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style
Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style Their operation was in jeopardy, their ‘business model’ at risk. Their reaction was typical for the brazen barons of finance, writes Michael Brenner. Surer than Three Card Monte, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco, 1887. (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Jefferson R. […]
Joe Lauria on the Alleged Russian Hack
Joe Lauria on the Alleged Russian Hack The editor-in-chief was interviewed on the radio program By Any Means Necessary about the alleged Russian hacking of U.S. government computers. Listen to it here. (16 minutes) Typical Russiagate articles in the corporate press follow this pattern: Russia is specifically blamed for something, like a hack or “undermining American democracy,” […]
Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995
Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995 After resigning from The Intercept when it suppressed one of his stories, Greenwald is calling for a new news outlet whose aim is the same as what the creator of this website established in November 1995. Robert Parry receiving the 2017 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London […]
Our Distance from Dirt
Our Distance from Dirt Many of us on the African continent clutch our unethically sourced pearls and briefly confront the ugly truths about our consumption, writes Takondwa Semphere. But then we forget. 2012: Children gold mining in the eastern DRC. (Sasha Lezhnev/Enough Project, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) It seems that every other month, a different […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face The Biden people are unlikely to speak of a new cold war with China, but they appear likely to wage one all dressed up as a sophisticated trans–Pacific strategy. A portion of China’s Great Wall at dawn. (Hao Wei, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Those boneheaded Trump people explained […]
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History If those who struck on Nov. 26 formed a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world after China, India, the United States and Indonesia, writes Vijay Prashad. India’s general strike on Nov. 26, 2020. (IndustriALL Global Union, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Farmers and agricultural workers […]
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Original illustration by Mr. Fish. (Scheerpost) Joe Biden’s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party’s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising U.S. […]
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands The enraged, polarized segments of the population are rapidly consolidating as the political center disintegrates. Fires and tear gas at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse perimeter fence during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Portland, Oregon, July 22, 2020. (Tedder, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com […]
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange
John Pilger: The Stalinist Trial of Julian Assange The extradition hearing beginning this week is the final act of an Anglo-American campaign to bury Julian Assange. It is not due process. It is due revenge, said John Pilger in a speech Monday outside the court building. Having reported the long, epic ordeal of Julian Assange, […]
WATCH: WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: What It Means for Press Freedom,
WATCH: WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: What It Means for Press Freedom WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson leads a discussion with investigative journalists Iain Overton and Chris Woods about the impact of the Iraq War Logs’ release a decade ago. Almost 10 years ago WikiLeaks published the Iraq War Logs along with The New York Times, The Guardian, El Pais, The Washington Post and […]
SCOTT RITTER: Powell & Iraq—Regime Change, Not Disarmament: The Fundamental Lie
SCOTT RITTER: Powell & Iraq—Regime Change, Not Disarmament: The Fundamental Lie Regime change, not disarmament, was always the driving factor behind U.S. policy towards Saddam Hussein. Powell knew this because he helped craft the original policy. The New York Times Magazine has published a puff piece soft-peddling former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s role in selling […]