BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Matt Brown – CC BY 2.0 The lifeblood of intelligence agencies is threat inflation: exaggerating the gravity of the dangers menacing the public, and calling for harsher laws to cope with them. MI5 director general Ken […]
BY DANIEL BEAUMONT The price was high but the Palestinians had the attention of the world press again in May. It took an eleven-day bombardment of Gaza and assaults of various forms on Palestinians in the […]
https://www.democracynow.org After the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse at his home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s interim government says it has asked the United Nations and the United States to send troops to help secure key infrastructure. […]
“We must resist the urge to let our pain dictate our policy,” said Rep. Sara Jacobs. “If we don’t, we will have learned nothing from the last 20 years.” KENNY STANCIL Following Thursday’s blasts outside Kabul’s […]
The demand comes as Biden is set to have his first meeting with the far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. ANDREA GERMANOS When President Joe Biden sits down Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, he […]
“Every last dollar of the $6 billion must be used to help save Afghan lives, not to boost Pentagon contractor profits,” said Win Without War. KENNY STANCIL As U.S. lawmakers fight over how to reappropriate the roughly $6 […]
BYDaniel Falcone, Truthout The corporate media in the U.S. were complicit in the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, argues historian Hannah Gurman, and they also were “boosters of Obama’s efforts to rebrand the war.” In this […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout Apparent suicide bombers struck at the Abbey Gate of the Kabul airport in Afghanistan just as evening was settling in, followed by a second bombing at a nearby […]
https://www.democracynow.org We speak with Haroun Rahimi, assistant professor of law at the American University of Afghanistan, about the Islamic State affiliate that claimed responsibility for this week’s devastating suicide bombings at Kabul airport, which killed […]
Shackled, Beaten, Strung Up on a Tree: Palestinian Teen Brutally Attacked by Settlers KATHRYN SHIHADAH Fifteen-year-old Tareq Zubeidi, a victim of settler violence this week. The settlers kicked him, he says, as he lay on […]