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Julian Assange and the Agenda for Global War
By Prof. James Petras
Never has the mass media been so thoroughly discredited by official documents which directly contradict the official propaganda, mouthed by political leaders and parroted by ‘leading’ journalists. Read more...

The Price of Participating in Society Is the Sacrifice of Privacy and Self
By John Stanton
In what is arguably one of the most craven opportunistic moves by a business/media group to increase its circulation/profitability, on 10 April the New York Times (NYT) embarked on what it describes as its Privacy Project. Read more...

Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning

By Edward Curtin
For a writer to fight injustice to the exclusion of creating beauty and living passionately contradicts the deepest desires of the human heart. Albert Camus taught us this. Read more...

Preventing the Sale of Venezuelan Oil to Cuba: Killing Two Birds with a Stone
By Nino Pagliccia
Recent US sanctions have been directed at the heart of Venezuela’s economy: the oil industry, an industry that has also been crippled by the continued sabotages on the electric power grid of the country. Read more...

A Cathedral and a Mosque Engulfed in Fire; One Ravages the Past, the Other Threatens the Future
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
World leaders were quick to react to the tragedy of this fire. News headlines around the world brought this disastrous incident to every living room around the globe and nations commiserated with the French. The inaudible sigh of relief was palpable when the structure was saved and with it, the history that laid within the walls. The past was not lost. Read more...

Annexation of West Bank May Provide Key to Unlocking Netanyahu’s Legal Troubles
By Jonathan Cook
The culmination of his dirty tricks campaign was an election-day stunt in which his Likud party broke regulations – and possibly the law – by arming 1,200 activists with hidden cameras, to film polling stations in communities belonging to Israel’s large Palestinian minority. Read more...

Permissible Influences: Israel and the Australian Elections
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
In Australia, anybody who either defends Palestinians against Israeli policy during their political career, especially prior or during an electoral campaign, or insists that Israeli policy falls well short of humanitarian standards, is deemed a rabid anti-Semite frothing with manifest hatred. Read more...