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Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is where you’re destined for. — C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1975), trans. Edmund Keeley https://youtu.be/Gs0cKFeRko0 John Shipton, despite his size, glides with insect-like grace across surfaces. He moves with a hovering sense, a holy man with message and meaning. As Julian Assange’s father, he

No doubt the Pentagon is aware that the propaganda value of “Top Gun: Maverick” would be greatly diminished if moviegoers realized that this was an hours-long propaganda film produced by the military itself.

A few weeks ago, Boris Johnson posted an extraordinary video on social media. He addressed himself to the people of Russia – in their own language. “Look at what is being done in your name”, he demanded. Images from Ukraine followed: civilians left dead in the street, women raped in front of their children, and mass graves filled with burned corpses. All were horrific.

Consortium News has asked the National Press Club in Washington to join other leading press freedom organizations in calling for Julian Assange's release. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News As part of its mission, the U.S. National Press Club defends the rights of persecuted journal

May 4, 2001 marks the day when the US was voted off the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The decision should have provided the superpower with a much-needed wakeup call. Instead, it just became more reckless on the global stage.

May 4, 2001 marks the day when the US was voted off the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The decision should have provided the superpower with a much-needed wakeup call. Instead, it just became more reckless on the global stage. With...

The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the...

Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq on the false pretext of destroying the country’s weapons of mass destruction.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘put lives of US informants at risk’ by publishing unredacted documents, lawyers for the US argued at the first day of a week-long extradition hearing.

Ahmed Rabbani (Pakistan), Untitled (Grape Arbor), 2016. Rabbani endured 545 days of torture at the hands of the CIA before he was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004. He has been in the prison without charge since then. Twenty years ago, on 11 January 2002, the United States government brought its first ‘detainees’ abducted during the