News that UK Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the US to face espionage charges has shocked supporters and opponents alike. Keeping Assange out of the clutches of the notorious Eastern District of Virginia...
OPCW Chief Dodges Questions on Syria Coverup After New Leaks, Attacks on Whistleblowers
From Pushback with Aaron Maté at The Grayzone: For the first time, OPCW chief Fernando Arias was asked a series of direct questions at the United Nations about the cover-up of a Syria chemical weapons probe. He answered none of them. Russia’s UN ambassador asked Arias...
An Aggressive China Policy Is a Recipe for More Endless Wars
From The American Conservative:Robert Farley explains why the U.S. can’t end endless wars if it pursues an aggressive China policy:The problem is straightforward: Any effort to characterize China as an existential threat to the United States necessarily implies...
Thaddeus Russell interviews James Carden (video)
From Unregistered Podcast: How many people in other countries has Trump killed? What will Biden do to the rest of the world? Do Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping want to conquer America? The journalist James Carden, who served as policy adviser to the Special...
Tommy Raskin, Antiwar Activist, Dead at 25
Tommy Raskin, former intern for Antiwar.com and a former staffer at the National Friends Committee on Legislation. He was 25. No cause of death was given. Tommy had been attending Harvard Law School. Tommy was the son of Rep. Jamie Raskin, (D-MD), who announced...
Stephen F. Cohen & Mikhail Gorbachev in Conversation
A documentary film by Rosemarie Reed featuring conversations between former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and Professor of Soviet Studies at NYU and Princeton Stephen F. Cohen. 1994. In three parts:
Cuba and Washington’s Absurd Overuse of Sanctions
From The American Conservative:Mike Pompeo is reportedly considering adding Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism in another last-minute move to box in the incoming administration:State Department officials have drawn up a proposal to designate Cuba as a...
Good News and Bad News for the Military Draft in 2021
Applicants for Federal financial aid for higher education will no longer be required to have registered with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft or answer questions about their Selective Service registration status or compliance.Among the...
‘A Blatant Violation’: Sahrawis Dismiss Pompeo’s Announcement of US Consulate in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
Sahrawi independence advocates defiantly dismissed an announcement Thursday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the United States would open a "virtual" diplomatic mission in Western Sahara as a first step toward establishing a permanent consulate in the...
Spooky Western Journalists Regurgitate CIA and Collaborate With Spy Agencies
From The Grayzone: Max Blumenthal, reporting from Venezuela, discusses with Aaron Maté and Ben Norton how Western corporate media outlets are full of stenographers for spy agencies, how the CIA and MI6 drive reporting on Russia, how the US and UK governments fund...


