foreign affairs

Chris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism

Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.
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False Witnesses and Sinister Plots: Exposing the CIA Connection in the ‘Chinese Police Station’ Narrative

Kit Klarenberg reveals how much of the hysteria surrounding 'Chinese police stations' in the West is being fueled by a shadowy CIA-linked organization called Safeguard Defenders.
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Permanent Apartheid in Palestine: Why Israel Wants to Reactivate The E1 Plan

The price of Israel's major plans in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank is not just humanitarian. It is essentially political, aimed at cutting off Palestinian communities from one another, isolating Jerusalem completely, and ensuring a Jewish demographic majority for generations to come.
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China and Palestine: No To ‘Piecemeal Crisis Management’

"The United States should realize that the lives of Palestinian Muslims are equally precious," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying. "The international community should work together to find a comprehensive and just solution to the Palestinian question."
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Exporting Occupation: Israeli Business is Booming in Morocco-Occupied Western Sahara

“Before the normalization happened, the Israelis would collaborate with the Moroccans, but also wouldn’t feel comfortable going beyond this covert intelligence or military or ad hoc cooperation, but with normalization, this has now reached a whole new level that is unprecedented.” -- Riccardo Fabiani, International Crisis Group