We have lost that connection between reason and morality .... We have decisively lost our idea of the commonweal as the anchor from which reason will make its case.



By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News
Remarks delivered in late August at…

Heads of state and government spoke at the U.N. assembly on the recognition of the state of Palestine and the Gaza war in a meeting chaired by France and Saudi Arabia.
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High-Level International Conference for Peaceful Settlement of Question of Palestine…

A Eurocentric perspective on the war dominates, while the conflict in Asia is little known in the West. Historical memory of WW II fades as generations of participants and witnesses pass away, says Uroš Lipušcek.










This year marks the 80th…

Donald Trump is among heads of government and state addressing the 80th general debate of the United Nations General Assembly as Gaza burns.
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Plenary Meetings for the General Debate of the Eightieth Session…

The admission that the U.K. government has provided aid to a proscribed terrorist group, while arresting citizens for the support of an anti-genocide group similarly proscribed is the height of hypocrisy.




By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
The…

A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions are suing the Trump administration for violating their free speech and academic freedom. 





By Marjorie Cohn
Truthout
Outrage flared last week about the University…

Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis, accused in court of antisemitism because of her reporting critical of Israel, was among the speakers at this rally in Melbourne covered by CN.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIep5hFApXU

The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.



By Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
Trump’s designation of the amorphous…

A government that can silence the speech you hate today can silence the speech you love tomorrow, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.



“It does me no injury for my neighbor
to say there are 20 gods or no God.
It neither picks my pocket nor
breaks my…

The AUKUS military alliance between Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. poses a threat of war with China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzKSKnqZ_og&t=10s
The NO AUKUS Coalition of Victoria, Australia argues that the AUKUS military alliance between Australia…

Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.




By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research…

As the Israeli government continues its horrific genocide of Palestinians and the destruction of housing and infrastructure in Gaza, in the third attack on the 42-ship Global Sumud flotilla, drones struck multiple boats in international waters.



By…

One million people across Italy, led by grassroots unions, took part in a general strike supporting Palestine and the Global Sumud Flotilla.




By Ana Vracar
Peoples Dispatch
Approximately one million people across Italy staged a general strike in…

The problem is the west established a state in the middle east which holds as its foundational ideology that the people who were living there before that state was created are less than human.




By Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin's Newsletter
Listen to…

Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House,” after blocking Declassified from holding a media pass, reports Martin Williams. 




By Martin Williams
Declassified UK
Parliament has been accused of an…

CODEPINK'S Medea Benjamin joins host Chris Hedges to discuss the current moment in American politics, which sees free speech sitting on a knife’s edge.


By Chris Hedges
ScheerPost 

This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble.…

Ray McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Gerald Celente, Garland Nixon, Roger Waters (video) and Joe Lauria addressed a rally in Kingston, NY Saturday in defense of sanity in a world gone mad. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT56YFvmje4…

Starmer is the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history, writes Craig Murray, and Blair being made effectively Governor of Gaza is so sickening as to be beyond belief.



By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
Friday saw two announcements: Keir…

In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, Sevim Dagdelen warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII.
The following is an address delivered by Sevim Dagdelen, foreign policy spokesperson for the Sahra…