During the ongoing wars of Israeli expansionism in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon, the absence of large, sustainable protests in numerous Arab capitals is notable.
AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Where is the ‘Arab Street?’
Category: Iraq
WATCH: US Calls for Release of Australian Hostage in Iraq
The U.S. hostage envoy calls for the release an Australian engineer held hostage by Iraq’s Central Bank to get out of a debt to the hostage’s company. CN Live! talks to his wife & an Australian senator about the case.
WATCH: A Time of Growing Repression
CN Editor Joe Lauria addressed a meeting held on the eve of an appeal hearing for Australian whistleblower David McBride, highlighting the growing repression in contrast to 50 years ago.
Max Blumenthal: Jeffrey Goldberg’s ‘War Chat’
Summoned to move the neocon message on Trump’s illegal war on Yemen, the Atlantic Magazine editor in chief wound up with more access than he could handle.
Craig Murray: Putin Is No Hitler
The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channelling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
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.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Geopolitics of Peace
The author explains manipulative U.S. post-war foreign policy to European MPs, explodes myths about Ukraine and urges an independent European foreign policy.
Vijay Prashad: ‘Dreams Are Wearing Thin’
Hundreds of millions of people from the Americas to China have been killed or subdued so a small part of the world — the North Atlantic — could enrich itself. That is madness.
Jonathan Cook: 30 Years of Middle East Lies
The “War on Terror” was built on a series of deceptions to persuade the Western public that its leaders were crushing Islamist extremism. In truth, they were nourishing it.
Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 7 Years Ago Today
We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018.