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Archives for January 2023

Saving Julian Assange, with John Shipton and Kevin Gosztola

Lee Camp is joined by Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton and investigative journalist Kevin Gosztola to discuss the ongoing campaign to save Julian Assange from the clutches of the US national security state.

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
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In this episode of Behind The Headlines, Lee Camp focuses on the campaign to save Julian Assange from the clutches of the U.S. national security state. He first shares a stage with Assange’s father, John Shipton, then speaks with investigative journalist Kevin Gosztola. Shipton has been on a mission to secure his son's freedom for many years

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Weapons Contractors Kill 11,000 Children While Reading Fairy Tales

BAE Systems doesn’t want us to only think of them as serial murderers. According to their PR department, they are also interested in reading fairy tales to children. 

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
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A UN report recently revealed that at least 11,000 children have been killed or maimed in the US-backed War in Yemen. At the same time, the weapons contractors that helped create this massacre are reading fairy tales to British children! You probably already know that, as reported by Alex Kane for In These Times in 2019, “Saudi Arabia, one of

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What Will Happen After the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel’s Occupation of Palestine?

The ICJ’s opinion is an essential first step, but without meaningful action, it will not reverse the sinister reality on the ground in Palestine.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
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Once more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will offer a legal opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine. A historic United Nations vote on December 31 called on the ICJ to look at the Israeli Occupation in terms of legal consequences, the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the

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Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd

The internecine warfare in the House is not between those who respect democratic institutions and those who do not. McCarthy, backed by Trump and far-right conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene, is as morally bankrupt as those trying to bring him down.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
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PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them out. The Squad and the Progressive Caucus have no more intention of fighting for universal health care, workers’ rights or defying the war machine than

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Why is the West Lamenting the End of ‘Liberal’ Israel?

Israel’s new extremist government maybe coming under fire now, but it is only a matter of time before it is whitewashed as more proof that Israel can strike a balance between being Jewish and democratic.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Liberal Israel

Even before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern governments but also among Israel’s historic allies in the West. As early as November 2, top US officials conveyed to Axios that the Joe Biden Administration is “unlikely to engage

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Uranium Water Contamination in US Far More Prevalent Than Believed

Providing clean water is the most basic responsibility of a government. The US government – the richest in the world – can’t do that, which puts this country at the level of a failed state.

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
Uranium Water Contamination

A new investigation looks into the extent to which U.S. water supplies are contaminated with uranium. Maybe it’s the good kind of uranium that turns you into Spider-Man or the Incredible Hulk and not the bad kind of uranium that turns you into Thyroid Cancer Man – one of the lesser-known Marvel superheroes. ProPublica has come out with an

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