In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Great Pretext … for Dystopia
ELECTION 2020: What President Biden Won’t Touch
Considering the think-tank imperialists in the bunch Biden is naming to direct U.S. foreign policy, Danny Sjursen expects little to change in the essence of the war-state.
Commentary, Economy, Election 2020, Politics, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
ELECTION 2020: The Other America
Liz Theoharis says a vast social movement is needed to break the predictable statement facing the next administration.
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires.
CNN Follows CN by 8 Days on Russiagate Payback Story
A week after CN, Cable News Network reported that Donald Trump knows he lost but is holding out to get back at the Democrats for undermining his legitimacy with Russiagate.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Biden & Hope for Whistleblowers
I’m thinking in particular about Darin Jones. And something a friend said about the president elect back in 2017 has stuck in my mind.
LEE CAMP: Keep Calm & Just Die
The government of Great Britain doesn’t want English students studying how capitalism is killing us.
Assange extradition, Australia, Britain, CN Live!, Intelligence, International, Legal, Media, Sweden, Trump Administration, WikiLeaks
WATCH: Free Press = Free Assange
ELECTION 2020: Biden Will Fail to Bring Back ‘Normal’ Politics
There’s no going back to the neoliberal consensus, writes Jonathan Cook. We have entered the age of political populism – a natural response to burgeoning inequality.
COVID-19: Tyson Managers Accused of Betting on How Many Workers Would Get Virus
A lawsuit alleges that a boss at one facility “organized a cash-buy-in, winner-take-all, betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many plant employees would test positive.”
ELECTION 2020: War Profiteers, Chickenhawks & Consultants
The members of the incoming president’s agency review teams are a rebuke to the idea of a Biden administration getting pushed left, writes Kevin Gosztola.
American Empire, Commentary, Korea Peninsula, Militarism, Propaganda, Secrecy, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
The Korean War’s Forgotten Lessons on the Evil of Intervention
The secrecy and deceit surrounding U.S. war crimes has had catastrophic consequences in this century, writes James Bovard.
Afghanistan, American Empire, Australia, Commentary, Foreign Policy, International, Iraq, Korea Peninsula, Militarism, Military, Philippines, Spain, The Bush-43 Administration, Torture, U.S., Vietnam, WikiLeaks
It’s Time for the US to Face Up to Its War Crimes
Australia had to reveal heinous crimes its troops committed in Afghanistan, even after it prosecuted a whistleblower and raided a TV station. It’s time for the U.S. to launch serious investigations of its own conduct in war, writes Joe Lauria.
Afghanistan, American Empire, International, International Criminal Court (ICC), Legal, Mike Pompeo, Militarism, Military
Did the US Commit War Crimes in Afghanistan?
U.S. forces and the CIA are alleged to have carried out unlawful killings and torture, both in Afghanistan and through the secret “rendition” of terrorist suspects, but the U.S. has taken measures to frustrate any prosecution of its troops.
Australian War Crimes Report Means Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan
These are unforgivable atrocities which cry out to the heavens for vengeance. Nothing can undo them. Nothing can set them right, writes Caitlin Johnston.
ELECTION 2020: Biden Appointee Advocated Using Propaganda Against Americans
Richard Stengel signals the Biden administration’s coming escalation of suppression of online media that are seen to threaten U.S. imperatives abroad, writes Ben Norton.
ELECTION 2020: More Humane Cages?
Afghanistan, American Empire, Commentary, Iraq, Militarism, News Analysis, Trump Administration, U.S.
On War, Trump Has Largely Been an Appeaser
William J. Astore says the president isn’t ending these wars. He’s merely reducing the number of boots on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A Typical Democratic Official on the Pentagon & War–as DOD Confirms Iraq, Afghanistan Withdrawal
William J. Astore takes on Jeh Johnson’s opposition to any haste in bringing troops home from the nearly two-decade-long war in Afghanistan, before Pentagon confirmed Wednesday Iraq and Afghan withdrawals.
Imperialism in Pumps
Mainstream feminism has abandoned women’s interests so thoroughly that it has largely become only superficially distinct from the patriarchy it purports to oppose, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
ELECTION 2020: Establishment Dems Can’t Say ‘No’ to Billionaires
Despite the party’s progressive platform, campaigns up and down the ticket ran away from anything that might discomfort the most comfortable, writes Sam Pizzigati.
American Empire, Climate Change, Economy, Election 2020, Environment, Indigenous People, Trump Administration, U.S.
Trump Rushes to Auction Off Arctic Drilling Rights
The pristine reserve is home to the Gwich’in people, who call it “Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit,” or, “the sacred place where life begins.”
American Empire, Campaign 2020, Column, Commentary, Election 2020, Foreign Policy, International, Militarism, U.S.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Hillary Clinton at the UN?
Whether or not Biden appoints her, things are getting very brazen and very bitter, very fast.
Passing as a Refugee
For those who are stateless, “fraud” can allow for the smuggling of truths into administrative lies, writes Keren Weitzberg.
A Convergence of Calamities
Nick Turse reports on a humanitarian catastrophe that has only begun to unfold and has already uprooted more people than during all of World War II.
Consortium News at 25, Consortiumnews.com, Intelligence, Iran-Contra, Media, October Surprise, Politics, WikiLeaks
25 YEARS: The Meaning of Consortium News
Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavored to continue, writes Joe Lauria.
Campaign 2016, Commentary, Consortium News at 25, Consortiumnews.com, Intelligence, Media, Russiagate, The Bush-43 Administration
25 YEARS: Bob Parry’s Last Article–A Manifesto on the State of Journalism
On New Year’s Eve 2017, less than a month before he would die, CN founder Bob Parry wrote his last article, a manifesto on the remit of journalism and its threatened demise, a chilling forecast of what was to come.
25 YEARS: A Brief History of Consortium News by Robert Parry
As we celebrate Consortium News‘ 25th Anniversary on Sunday, we republish this history of the site written by the founding editor, Bob Parry, on Dec. 21, 2014.
Only Kooks Believe In The Deep State
Mainstream, liberal U.S. discourse has accomplished an amazing feat of Orwellian doublethink with regard to the notion that unelected power structures are running things without the consent of the nation’s official elected government, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
WATCH: CN’s 25th Anniversary Show With Oliver Stone, John Pilger, Nat Parry, Diane Duston, Spencer Oliver, Gareth Porter, Ray McGovern and Peter Kuznick
Consortium News celebrated its 25th birthday on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020 with guests Oliver Stone, Diane Duston, John Pilger, Nat Parry, Ray McGovern, Spencer Oliver, Gareth Porter and Peter Kuznick.
Climate: Point of No Return
Even an immediate reduction to zero greenhouse emissions would still result in a 3°C rise in global temperatures by 2500, find the authors of a new study.
Campaign 2016, Campaign 2020, Column, Commentary, Intelligence, Media, News Analysis, Opinion, Russiagate
RAY McGOVERN: What is John Brennan So Worried About?
Given the uncertainties of Donald Trump’s actions as he faces a White House exit, the possible declassification of certain documents has the former CIA director sweating.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Depressing State of US Politics
There’s a lot wrong, including the hypocrisy of the Republican Party and the members of Biden’s national security transition team. The sole hope involves the Office of the Pardon Attorney.