Draft Registration on Track for 2021 Debate in Congress and Supreme Court
October 8, 2020
The military draft is still on the back burner. But the issue – and specifically whether to (finally) end draft registration or try to expand it to young women as well as young men – is on track to be debated in Congress and quite possibly the Supreme Court in 2021. Here’s some of what’s […]
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How Do We Stop Washington’s Regime Change Addiction?
October 8, 2020
From The American Conservative: Philip Gordon has written a smart article in Foreign Affairs explaining why policies of regime change fail even when they initially “succeed” in toppling the targeted government. He concludes: Regime change will always tempt Washington. So long as there are states that threaten American interests and mistreat their people, U.S. leaders […]
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OPCW Syria Whistleblower and ex-OPCW Chief Attacked by US, UK, France at UN (video)
October 7, 2020
From The Grayzone: Ian Henderson, a veteran OPCW inspector who challenged a cover-up of his organization’s investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, recently testified before the United Nations Security Council. At the meeting, Henderson was both attacked and ignored by U.S., UK, and French diplomats whose governments bombed Syria over allegations that […]
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New Declassified Documents Tie Hillary To ‘Russiagate’ Plot
October 7, 2020
Yesterday’s declassification of then-CIA Director John Brennan’s hand-written notes on Hilary Clinton’s alleged invention of a Trump-Russia scandal to distract from her own private email server scandal is an explosive development in the four year “Russiagate” scandal. So why is the mainstream media, which obsessed over “Russiagate” for four years, suddenly silent? Also on today’s […]
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Peace Groups Blockade Creech Air Force Base To Protest ‘Illegal and Inhumane Remote Killing’ by US Drones
October 7, 2020
A group of 15 peace activists on Saturday wrapped up a week-long nonviolent, socially-distanced protest at a Nevada Air Force base housing a command and control center for unmanned aerial drones. For the 11th straight year, CodePink and Veterans for Peace led their twice-annual Shut Down Creech demonstration against killer drones at Creech Air Force […]
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Covering the Assange Extradition Hearing (video roundtable)
October 4, 2020
From Consortium News: A live roundtable discussion with journalists who had access to the daily proceedings at the Old Bailey, hosted by Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof. Guests: Taylor Hudak, Cathy Vogan, Mohamed Elmaazi, Juan Passarelli, Richard Medhurst, Mary Kostakidis, Tareq Haddad and Joe Lauria.
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Patrick Cockburn and Andy Worthington’s Testimony in Assange Extradition Hearings
October 2, 2020
The judge wouldn’t allow these great journalists to testify in court (or even by video), they could only submit their written statements. But at least we have the pdf files for you. (Thanks to the great Kevin Gosztola.) Here’s Patrick Cockburn, and here are the two parts of the Statement of Andy Worthington 1 and 2.
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Consortium News’ Assange Case Summary: Jen Robinson, Kristinn Hraffnson, John Shipton, Craig Murray, & Joseph Farrel (video)
October 2, 2020
From Consortium News: The Assange case summary, webcast live from London with Assange attorney Jennifer Robinson; WikiLeaks Editor Kristinn Hraffnson; Assange’s father, John Shipton; former diplomat Craig Murray; & WikiLeaks ambassador, Joseph Farrell.
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Who Owes Who an Apology and Will ‘Palestine’ Be Allowed on Canadian Airwaves?
October 2, 2020
On August 18, 2020, renowned cartoonist Joe Sacco was interviewed by Canadian public radio host Duncan McCue, who is Anishinaabe, a member of the Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation, for his program The Current, which is produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The two discussed colonization, resource extraction, and Sacco’s latest graphic novel Paying […]
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Panel: What’s a State-Sponsored Assassination Between Friends? Reckoning With the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (video)
October 2, 2020
On the eve of the second anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, QI and Showtime Documentary Films hosted a discussion about the implications of the assassination for U.S.-Saudi relations past, present, and future. The discussion also offered a sneak peak at Showtime’s Kingdom of Silence, the upcoming documentary that provides an in-depth look into the Washington […]
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