Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion of Julian Assange

British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
Jules Feature photo

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees that Julian Assange would be afforded First Amendment rights and would be spared the death penalty if extradited to the U.S. The inability to give

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Complicit in Genocide: Where Israel Gets Its Weapons

Almost every time a Western country announces its suspension of arms exports to Israel, a headline appears shortly afterward indicating the opposite. Indeed, this has happened repeatedly.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Israeli weapons Feature photo

Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, with an average of 37 mothers per day since October 7. The numbers above, from the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza and the Red Crescent Society, respectively, only convey part of the

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Cognitive Dissonance: Perplexed US Foreign Policy is Prolonging Gaza Genocide

Amidst escalating violence and humanitarian catastrophe, the United States’ contradictory actions in Gaza raise serious questions about its moral obligations and geopolitical interests.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Gaza Editorial Feature

When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive dissonance, terrible things happen. These terrible things are, in fact, already taking place in the Gaza Strip, where well over 100,000 people have been killed, wounded or are missing, and an outright famine is currently ravaging

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Chris Hedges: Israel’s Trojan Horse

The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.

Chris Hedges
By Chris Hedges
Israel’s Trojan Horse by Mr. Fish

Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the 2.3 million Palestinians. If the Arab world will not take them, as

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Study Finds Media Giants New York Times, CNN, and Fox News Pushing for US War in Yemen

A new study of major media outlets’ coverage of the Red Sea blockade found overwhelming bias in the press, which put forward pro-war talking points and portrayed the US as a good faith actor “dragged” into another Middle Eastern conflict against its will

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Media Yemen Bias Feature photo

A MintPress study of major U.S. media outlets’ coverage of the Yemeni Red Sea blockade has found an overwhelming bias in the press, which presented the event as an aggressive, hostile act of terrorism by Ansar Allah (a.k.a. the Houthis), who were presented as pawns of the Iranian government. While constantly putting forward pro-war talking points,

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The IDF’s Failing Gaza War, with ex-U.S. Special Forces’ Greg Stoker

Greg Stoker is a former U.S. Army Special Operations member who left the military and became a committed anti-imperialist. Today, he joins MintCast to discuss Israel, Yemen, and the US role in the chaos.

Mnar Adley
Alan Macleod
By Mnar Adley
And Alan Macleod
Greg Stoker Feature photo

The death and destruction caused in Gaza is almost beyond comprehension. Over 25,000 people have died at the hands of the Israeli air and ground assault, and virtually the entire population of the densely populated strip has been forced to flee their homes. Few governments have been willing to put up meaningful resistance to Israeli aggression.

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