Getting to the bottom of the Jamal Khashoggi disappearance is a bit like peeling an onion. By Philip Giraldi.

Speaking truth to power has ruined Darin Jones, a former FBI contract specialist who reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties. He should be the last federal whistleblower victimized, writes John Kiriakou.

Despite its best efforts, neoliberalism is increasingly discredited in the eyes of large sections of the electorate in the US and UK. Its attempts at concealment have grown jaded, its strategy exhausted. It has reached the end-game, and that is why politics now looks so unstable. By Jonathan Cook.

The Coup

With her insatiable fighting spirit, Kathleen Cleaver went from being a bookish child to a front-lines protester with the Black Panthers. By Gina Dimuro.

Germany now sees the current trans-Atlantic antipathy as a historic opportunity to redefine the EU's role, writes Germany's foreign minister. By Heiko Maas.

By “dangling the carrot” to improve worker productivity, businesses are taking a page from slavery’s playbook. By Caitlin C. Rosenthal.

Despite mass killings and newly authoritarian laws, a diverse opposition says the movement to oust Ortega is far from over. By Maia Hibbett.

A peerless chronicler of clerical sex and 'culture of deceit.' By Rod Dreher.

Lawmakers push for ‘constitutional convention’ to restrict federal government – and it’s not as far fetched as it sounds. By Jamiles Lartey.

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and investigative reporter John Pilger takes the gloves off on the continuing attempts to upend WikiLeaks and arrest its founding publisher, Julian Assange, in this interview with Dennis Bernstein and Randy Credico.

Trump may be paranoid, but he has real enemies among the emeriti of the intelligence establishment, and among them are the authors of three new books that collectively have sold up to a million copies: James Clapper, Michael Hayden, and James Comey. By Tim Weiner.

When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution. By Matt Taibbi.

The increasingly direct road to ruin. By Andrew Cockburn.

G.J. Meyer, author of The World Remade, joins Signature to discuss a time in American history, during WWI, when censorship was the rule of the land.

BBC

Stephen Greenblatt’s ardent and involving new book is concerned with rulers and aspirants in Shakespeare who abuse their power. By John Stubbs.

Hour upon hour, day upon day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China’s new indoctrination camps had to disavow their Islamic beliefs, criticize themselves and their loved ones and give thanks to the ruling Communist Party. By Gerry Shih.

All of Michigan, D.C., and a large chunk of Pennsylvania are part of the area where Border Patrol has expanded search and seizure rights. Here’s what it means to live or travel there. By Tanvi Misra,

After refusing to directly answer questions about her history as an alleged torturer, Ray McGovern decided to ask Gina Haspel a question or two of his own and he wound up in jail for it, reports Joe Lauria.