Now that we have proved to be too defiant and rebellious, Keir Starmer’s government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel.



By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net
In interviews and a comment article over the weekend, the U.K. Education…

Hamas is urging international mediators to help enforce the ceasefire agreement, warning that Israel’s continued violations risked blowing up the tenuous truce.




By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams
Israeli occupation forces have killed numerous Palestinian…

We know from Lebanon that in Gaza, the Israelis will break any agreement and the American “guarantors” will support their continued violence as “counter-terrorism.”



By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal…

Greta Thunberg reveals her mistreatment and Flotilla members , kidnapped on the high seas by Israel as 40 boats carrying aid attempted to break the blockade, spoke at a rally in Sydney, Australia. CN was there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hW4rOUGQT4&t=2s…

What we’re now seeing is Israel’s version of air-power colonialism, writes Juan Cole.



By Juan Cole
TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the…

Marjorie Cohn previews some of the cases the U.S. high court will use to establish the limits of executive power.




By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
The Supreme Court’s new term, which began last week, presents the court with a monumental opportunity to…

Chip Gibbons says the Trump administration should not be using the Espionage Act against Bolton, who himself used the overly broad, archaic law as a tool for political persecution. 




By Chip Gibbons
Defending Rights & Dissent 
John Bolton is an…

Nick Turse covers the U.S. president's push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a "war from within."




By Nick Turse
TomDispatch.com
Earlier this month, President Donald…

In his speech to the Knesset, Trump told Netanyahu: "We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel ... [And] you used them well," writes Marjorie Cohn.



By Marjorie Cohn
Special to Consortium News…

Journalist Chris Hedges delivers the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, "Requiem for Gaza" in Adelaide, Australia.

https://youtu.be/MGqtPIR8rFU
Chris Hedges gives the second talk of his 2025 Australian tour, the Edward SaidMemorial Lecture, at the University…

Donald Trump's twenty-point plan offers nothing political for the Palestinians. It creates a joint U.S.-Israel occupation. 




By As`ad AbuKhalil
Special to Consortium News

The highly touted picture of “Middle East peace” is quite deceptive.
Nobody…

Dave DeCamp reports on the deadliest day of Israeli attacks in the Strip since the ceasefire went into effect on Oct. 10.



By Dave DeCamp
Antiwar.com
The Israeli military launched heavy airstrikes across Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 45 Palestinians…

The National Press Club of Australia in Canberra canceled an engagement with journalist Chris Hedges after it was announced on its website. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney.
https://youtu.be/3UvRayuc-PM
This is the speech Chris Hedges…

Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House.




By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News

What a big game…

The campaign comes after officials blocked Declassified UK from holding a press pass, citing its Gaza "standpoint."



By Martin Williams
Declassified UK
More than 100 politicians, journalists and campaigners have condemned a “flagrant and partisan…

Watching 2,000 upstanding citizens, most of them elderly and many infirm, hustled through this mass-injustice process will be a defining moment in the U.K.’s headlong slide into fascism.



By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
Those charged with terrorism…