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Title: The Belmarsh Tribunals Demand Justice For Julian Assange
BYLINE: By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
"The first casualty when war comes is truth," U.S. Sen. Hiram W. Johnson of California said in 1929, debating ratification of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, a noble but ultimately failed attempt to ban war. Reflecting on World War I, which ended a decade earlier, he continued: "It begins what we were so ...Read more
Title: Lies, Damn Lies, And Climate Change
BYLINE: By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting carried away. Literally. She joined thousands in the village of Lützerath, Germany, to oppose the expansion of an open-pit lignite mine, one of the dirtiest forms of coal. Police in riot gear hauled her away as the mass arrests progressed. Greta wrote ...Read more