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VIPS Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange
VIPS Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange Memorandum for: The US Embassies of Ecuador and the United Kingdom, and the U.S. State Department From: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Subject: Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange For six years, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange has been effectively imprisoned without charges at Ecuador’s London embassy. In that […]
Journalists Are All Julian Assange
Journalists Are All Julian Assange As Ecuador threatens to expel Julian Assange, CN Ed. Joe Lauria will speak in a 50-hr. online vigil for Assange on Sat., 8pm EDT. In 2010, Bob Parry, late CN founder & editor, wrote this incisive essay on Assange’s vital work. Whatever the unusual aspects of the case, the Obama administration’s […]
VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC
VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC As drums beat again for war — this time on Iran—-the VIPS’ warning is again being disregarded as it was before the Iraq debacle and this time VIPS fear the consequences will be all-caps CATASTROPHIC. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) SUBJECT: Intelligence on Iran Fails […]
Living in a World Bereft of Privacy
Living in a World Bereft of Privacy As Edward Snowden confirmed beyond doubt, we live in a world where our most intimate moments can be seen by would-be extortioners and, more alarmingly, by our governments, says Annie Machon. A few days ago I first received a menacing email from someone calling herself Susana Peritz. She […]
Inside WikiLeaks: Working with the Publisher that Changed the World
Inside WikiLeaks: Working with the Publisher that Changed the World Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi has worked with WikiLeaks for nine years on the Podesta emails and other revelations. Here’s an insider’s view of the publisher, which has incensed rulers around the world, desperate to hide their corruption. Silenced and cut off from the outside world, […]
Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth
Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth FROM THE ARCHIVES: In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don’t hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reported Robert Parry on Oct. 28, 2017. As Russia-gate becomes the go-to excuse to marginalize and suppress independent and […]
When the US Invaded Russia
When the US Invaded Russia Amidst the backdrop of increased U.S.-Russian tensions and even talk of war, long forgotten is the time the U.S. actually invaded, explains Jeff Klein. Amid the bi-partisan mania over the Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki, fevered, anti-Russian rhetoric in the United States makes conceivable what until recently seemed inconcievable: that dangerous […]
How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy
How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy Trump’s policies are shaping America’s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don’t exhibit a consistent strategy, observes Paul Pillar. The urge within the commentariat to describe every president’s foreign policy in terms of some clearly defined doctrine is as strong as ever, but […]
Corporate Media’s About-Face on Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis
Corporate Media’s About-Face on Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis U.S. corporate media spent years dismissing the role of neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s 2014 coup but it is suddenly going through a conversion, as Daniel Lazare reports. Last month a freelance journalist named Joshua Cohen published an article in The Washington Post about the Ukraine’s growing neo-Nazi threat. Despite a gratuitous swipe at […]
America Celebrates Lateral Move From Monarchy To Corporate Rule
America Celebrates Lateral Move From Monarchy To Corporate Rule Today America celebrates its liberation from the shackles of the British Crown and the beginning of its transition into corporatist oligarchy, which is a lot like celebrating your lateral promotion from housekeeping to laundry staff. Fireworks will be set off, hot dogs will be consumed, and […]
The Pentagon Expands Its Provocative Encirclement of China
The Pentagon Expands Its Provocative Encirclement of China It failed to make headlines, but the recent change in name of the U.S. Pacific Command is an ominous sign of a coming U.S. confrontation with China, argues Michael T. Klare. U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy in […]
The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case
The Eerie Silence Surrounding the Assange Case Julian Assange remains cut off from the world in Ecuador’s London embassy, shut off from friends, relatives and thousands of supporters, leaving him unable to do his crucial work, as John Pilger discusses with Dennis J. Bernstein. In a recent communication between Randy Credico, an Assange supporter, comic […]
Ecuador Continues Playing Hardball With Assange
Ecuador Continues Playing Hardball With Assange A day after she was elected president of the UN General Assembly, the Ecuadorian foreign minister said Julian Assange would remain incommunicado in Ecuador’s London embassy, as James Cogan explains. On Monday Ecuadorian Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa was elected to a one-year term as president of the United […]
Italy: The Center Cannot Hold
Italy: The Center Cannot Hold For a generation, acceptance of the neoliberal doctrine that “there is no alternative” has paralyzed politics in the West. But what is the meaning of politics if there’s no alternative to the resulting Authoritarian Center, asks Diana Johnstone. The traditional governing parties, center “left” and center “right” all follow the […]
