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Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines. By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News Circumstantial evidence, just like

Marjorie Cohn warns that the rightward-veering Supreme Court may continue  demolishing the Voting Rights Act. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout Former President Donald Trump’s installation of three radical right-wingers on the Supreme Court is already yielding frightening victories for religious ze

This is peak crazy. A thinking species that regards as outrageous heresy any opposition to nuclear-war brinkmanship that can cause its extinction cannot get any more crazy. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com Listen to a reading of this article. It’s really too bad that anyone who thinks

M.K. Bhadrakumar says the OPEC+ decision could change the security picture in West Asia more than anything since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. By M.K. Bhadrakumar Peoples Dispatch The Biden administration is swiftly establishing a narrative that the recent OPEC decision to cut oil producti

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold say the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize missed a chance to help end a war so dangerous that Biden is warning of "nuclear Armageddon.”  By Medea Benjamin  and Ariel Gold Common Dreams In what was described as a harsh rebuke of Russia, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awa

As the membership of a maintenance-and-construction union reset the countdown to a potential work stoppage, negotiators return to the bargaining table. By Julia Conley Common Dreams A union representing railroad maintenance and construction workers on Monday announced that its members ha

Calls for peace must be as powerful as calls to save the planet from the climate catastrophe, writes Vijay Prashad. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a human-made catastrophe, namely to warn the wor

The judicial proceedings against Julian Assange give a faux legality to the state persecution of the most important and courageous journalist of our generation. This is the speech given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 8, at a rally that call

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