BY SONALI KOLHATKAR New York’s second-largest city, Buffalo, has essentially elected a socialist mayor. India Walton, who calls herself “very proud” to be a democratic socialist, swept past incumbent mayor Byron Brown in Buffalo’s Democratic mayoral primary race […]
BY PIERRE SPREY Julian Assange. Drawing: Nathaniel St. Clair. A careful read of this stunning investigative piece in Iceland’s Stundin newspaper reveals that in June 2011 Eric Holder (no doubt with Obama’s enthusiastic approval) initiated a disgraceful FBI frame-up of […]
BY ANDREW BACEVICH Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut’s famous novel about […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Hammersfan – CC BY-SA 4.0 In the months before the first Gulf War in 1991 my late friend Christopher Hitchens took part in a television encounter in which he demolished the actor Charlton Heston […]
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Jonathan Cook writes: Craig Murray, a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, the father of a newborn child, a man in very poor health and one who has no prior convictions, will have to hand himself over to […]
By Stuart Littlewood So Westminster has had its debate following a 385,000-strong petiton, and the friends and admirers of apartheid Israel came out on top. How a person like Catherine McKinnell managed to secure the job of leading […]
By Jad K. Jadallah Tawil Any government around the world must defend and secure the health, safety, and rights of any of its born or naturalized citizens, wherever these citizens are located in the world. This […]
By Ramzy Baroud The now-former Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is as much American as he is Israeli. While other Israeli leaders have made their strong relationship with Washington a cornerstone of their politics, […]
In August of last year, when my team spoke to the Abu Jazar family in the Gaza Strip, they didn’t know whether their son, Yousef, was dead or alive. Yousef was seemingly shot and killed […]