Palaver and Parable: Trump’s Babble
“All lies and jestsStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest” – “The Boxer,” Paul Simon Listening to Donald Trump is like staring at a record…
“All lies and jestsStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest” – “The Boxer,” Paul Simon Listening to Donald Trump is like staring at a record…
“We accept of course that it is draconian and deliberately so”— those chilling words were spoken during the second part of a proceeding that took a further step into authoritarianism.
The direct-action group’s request for temporary relief from the government’s high-profile terrorist designation drew the author to an all-too familiar London court earlier this month. Part 1 of 2 articles.
By Craig Murray / CraigMurray.org.uk Back in the “War on Terror” days, the UK security services fabricated multiple fake terror plots. There was, for example, the 2009 Easter Bomb Plot…
Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind.
What this potentially amounts to is the end of pluralism in the Levant and its replacement by supremacism: An ethno-supremacist Greater Israel and a religio-supremacist Salafist Greater Syria.
Those of us in the West must resist our own governing systems, or we are complicit.
By Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté / The Grayzone
In 1985, the U.K. backed apartheid South Africa and said the African National Congress were terrorists. Now they back apartheid Israel and say Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorists. The state…
We must fight the evil of empire in every way possible, especially given the genocide in Gaza. Win or lose. What matters is resistance.
The same powers who fund and arm Ukraine fund and arm genocide by a racial supremacist Israel. My belief in some kind of inherent decency in the Western political Establishment…
By Mohamed Elmaazi / The Dissenter On his way back home from Iceland, British whistleblower and former diplomat Craig Murray was stopped by police and interrogated at Scotland’s Glasgow Airport…
The former diplomat’s detention is just the latest example of British terror laws being used to harass and intimidate dissidents, while brazenly prying into their private affairs.
By Max Blumenthal / The Grayzone Craig Murray is the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, a whistleblower, journalist and one of the leading voices for the freedom of Julian Assange.…
By Chris Hedges / The Real News Network As Julian Assange continues to fight extradition to the United States to face prosecution under the Espionage Act, a growing chorus of…