By David Rovics* – CounterPunch I turned on the news yesterday and there was Attorney General Merrick Garland somewhere in Ukraine, talking about being part of the effort to prosecute war crimes charges against the Russian invaders. Coincidentally, the night before seeing our…
By David Bacon* – Truthout At the end of the just-concluded Summit of (some of) the Americas, President Joe Biden announced a “Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection,” claiming that participant countries are “transforming our approach to managing migration in…
By Azeezah Kanji* – Truthout As the British government moves ever closer to extraditing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, the pantomime of “justice” cloaking his persecution in the regalia of the “rule of law” continues to unfold: a torture rendition by…
By Yanis Varoufakis* – Project Syndicate A half-century long strategy, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, is coming undone. As a result, the West’s authorities now face an impossible choice: push conglomerates and states into cascading bankruptcies…
By Marjorie Cohn* – Truthout Human Rights and Global Wrongs Ever since U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel formally ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S. last week, press freedom advocates around the world have been mobilizing. Assange…
Ruehl* – Globetrotter / Independent Media Institute The effects of the war in Ukraine have brought much of the world’s attention to energy prices. But food insecurity is also rising and will likely get worse With some of the world’s most fertile land, Ukraine’s nickname as…
AGORÀ WAR IS A CRIME. PEACE WITH BARE HANDS On Sunday 19 June we gathered in Sezano (VR) at the Monastery of the Common Good to affirm the need and urgency to ban war, all wars, and build peace without yes or no buts.
By John Rees* – Analysis, Counterfire There is still an opportunity to overturn Priti ‘authoritarian’ Patel’s decision to extradite Julian Assange, but it will take mass resistance If you have been living on one of the remoter planets of the known…
By Stuart Streichler* – Boston Review Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable As the House January 6 committee lays out its case against Donald Trump for his part in an…
By Branko Marcetic* – Jacobin If Russia were persecuting a whistleblower like Julian Assange, the US would rightly condemn it as authoritarian abuse. But because that persecution is backed by the US, the mainstream media and American politicians are fine with it LONDON…
