Israel has risked a potentially devastating conflict with Iran that could engulf the region and undermine the world economy with an unprovoked attack on nuclear facilities and Iranian leaders on Thursday, reports Joe Lauria.
As the world braced for Tehran’s response to Tel Aviv’s attacks, progressive U.S. politicians, antiwar activists and human rights defenders called for a diplomatic solution and an end to American support for Israel.
“Nuclear facilities must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances” — Rafael Grossi issues a grave warning.
After Israel’s strikes, which killed Ali Shamkhani, a top aide to Supreme Leader Khamenei, Iran suspended already-tenuous negotiations in Oman.
Peter Kuznick delivers a talk at a Simone Weil Center symposium on John F. Kennedy’s momentous 1963 American University speech, marking the president’s transformation from Cold Warrior to peace seeker.
Sixty-two years ago this week, John F. Kennedy broke with the Cold War in his American University speech and warned against humiliating a nuclear weapons power, words that resonate more than ever, writes Joe Lauria.
The Marines are trained in combat, not crowd control, writes Marjorie Cohn. People are likely to get hurt.
If the feds can characterize an unarmed assemblage of protesters as an invasion, Andrew P. Napolitano asks whose freedoms are safe.
Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.
In a letter obtained by The San Fancisco Chronicle, Kristi Noem appears inclined to skirt federal restrictions on military involvement with domestic law enforcement.
Following his recent court victory, Asa Winstanley calls on police to stop investigating his social media account and for journalists to stick together against police repression.
The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
If military drones are “revolutionizing” instruments, then wherever we are, we are in a field of battle.
The Israeli military intercepted the sailboat early Monday and abducted its crew and participants and confiscated its cargo, Ann Wright reports.
Given the present existential dangers in Russia-U.S. relations, an historic 1985 citizen’s summit that was televised from Leningrad and Seattle, will be replicated on June 18 in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kingston, New York.
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today.
Donald Trump is somebody very hard to define and to describe because we’ve never seen anything like him, the editor of Consortium News told Turkish journalist Tunç Akkoç’.
It is long past time Tzipi Hotovely was expelled from London. Starmer’s inaction proves he has no intention of stopping his support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza.
Government officials — local, state and federal — are trampling the natural right to privacy, argues Andrew P. Napolitano.
By contracting the surveillance firm to agglomerate the U.S. population’s personal data across government agencies, the White House has turbo-charged the company’s value, Kit Klarenberg reports.
Benjamin Netanyahu often spread the slogan to solidify Western support for Israel’s savagery in Gaza. Now the lie has been exposed once and for all, writes Joe Lauria.