SHARE        Sunday, November 17, 2013
Peace Options on Iran For decades, the default ideology of Official Washington's foreign policy has been "tough-guy-ism," wielding sticks and mocking those who offer carrots, a pattern that could start a disastrous war with Iran, say Tom H. Hastings and Erin E. Niemela.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 4, 2014
Needed: Obama-Putin Summit on Ukraine As the death toll mounts in an incipient civil war between east and west Ukraine, a group of retired U.S. intelligence professionals urges President Obama to hold a summit with Russia's President Putin to defuse the crisis.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 22, 2021
LETTER FROM LONDON: On the Matter of Assange's Lawyers Considering a Cross Appeal Julian Assange's lawyers are considering bringing a cross appeal to the High Court in London disputing parts of District Judge Vanessa Baraitser's Jan. 4 judgment not to extradite Assange to the United States.

SHARE        Sunday, August 30, 2020
The War on Journalism: The Case of Julian Assange Journalists are under attack globally for doing their jobs. Julian Assange is facing a 175 year sentence for publishing if extradited to the United States.

SHARE        Saturday, December 7, 2013
Why Saudi-Israeli Team Hates Iran Deal The Saudi-Israeli alliance opposes a diplomatic settlement with Iran over its nuclear program because the deal could kill hopes for enlisting the U.S. military in one more violent regime change in the Middle East, as the Independent Institute's Ivan Eland explains.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Snowden Honored by Ex-Intel Officials Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, an organization of former national security officials, has honored NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, praising his decision to reveal the extent of U.S. government electronic surveillance of people in the United States and around the world.

SHARE        Monday, August 31, 2015
Schumer's Troubling Mideast Record In trying to torpedo the Iran nuclear deal, Sen. Charles Schumer is continuing his longstanding role as a front man for U.S. neocons and Israeli hardliners who favor a Mideast strategy of violent "regime change" over negotiated solutions, as Jonathan Marshall describes.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 1, 2019
VIPS: Extradition of Julian Assange Threatens Us All Retaliation against Julian Assange over the past decade plus replicates a pattern of ruthless political retaliation against whistleblowers, in particular those who reveal truths hidden by illegal secrecy, VIPS says.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 17, 2019
VIPS Fault Mueller Probe, Criticize Refusal To Interview Assange The bug in Mueller's report to be released Thursday is that he accepts that the Russian government interfered in the election. Trump should challenge that, says VIPS.

SHARE        Saturday, September 26, 2020
FINAL REPORT: ASSANGE HEARING DAY 14--Baraitser Grants Defense 4 Weeks to Prepare for Final Argument, Citing US Election Consortium News is virtually "inside" the courtroom at Old Bailey, viewing the proceedings by video-link and has filed this report on Day Fourteen of Julian Assange's resumed extradition hearing.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 30, 2014
Still Trying to Sink an Iran Deal President Obama has vowed to veto a Senate bill pushed on behalf of the Israeli government that could sink negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program by weighing them down with even more sanctions, a move that could put the region on course for another war, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.

SHARE        Monday, November 23, 2020
WATCH: Free Press = Free Assange Watch Daniel Ellsberg, Marjorie Cohn and Joe Lauria discuss the Julian Assange Affair.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 6, 2013
How to Curb the Doomsday Club On Aug. 6, 1945, the world changed. Though war had plagued humankind for millennia, the U.S. atomic bomb on Hiroshima showed how all life might end, a threat that remains as nuclear-armed states keep their arsenals, thus creating incentives for non-nuclear states to join the doomsday club, as Peter G. Cohen notes.

SHARE        Thursday, January 23, 2014
The Why Behind Egypt's Coup Egypt’s military coup meshed with the geopolitical interests of Saudi Arabia and Israel, but the toppling of the country’s first democratically elected government was driven by other factors, including the history of a politically powerful military, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes.

SHARE        Thursday, September 10, 2020
ASSANGE HEARING DAY FOUR: Hearing Adjourned to Monday While Lawyer Who Was in Court is Tested for Covid-19 Judge Vanessa Baraitser has adjourned the hearing of Julian Assange until next Monday while a COVID-19 test result is awaited for a lawyer who appeared in the courtroom on Wednesday.

SHARE        Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Time for Proof on Syrian CW Attack World attention has moved to the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, but the evidence on the Aug. 21 attack near Damascus remains hidden and in dispute, causing a group of former U.S. intelligence professionals to ask Moscow and Washington to present what they have.

SHARE        Friday, May 2, 2014
Could the Fans Own the Clippers? Even before Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling became known for his racism, he was recognized as one of basketball's most inept executives with his team rarely making the playoffs. Now, with him banished from the NBA, Bob Katz wonders if there's a way for the public to own the team.

SHARE        Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The Fragile Process for Engaging Iran The diplomatic fracas over inviting and disinviting Iran to the Syrian peace talks only makes sense if you factor in President Obama’s fragile consensus for engaging Iran over its nuclear program – while influential neocons keep pressing for confrontation. That mix has made for a messy process on Syria, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.