When a president has failed as miserably as Joe Biden, you have to change the subject. You have to distract the public.
Patrick Lawrence: Exeunt, the Man from Scranton
Caitlin Johnstone: Trump Is the Empire Unmasked
The U.S. presidential returnee either doesn’t understand or doesn’t care about the importance of keeping a polite face on the imperial machine.
Commentary, Military Industry, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Union, U.S., U.S. Congress, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Angling Toward Armageddon
William Hartung reports on a resurgent network of nuclear hawks who want to build more kinds of nuclear weapons and ever more of them.
Analysis, Biden Administration, Censorship, Commentary, Constitution, Disinformation, Legal, Social Media
Trump Issues Order to End Censorship
On Monday President Donald Trump signed an executive order that ensures no federal government official facilitates conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen, reports Joe Lauria.
Commentary, Israel, NATO, Russia, The Bush-43 Administration, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Justice Dept., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Trump Is No Traitor to His Class
Arrayed around him in the Capitol’s rotunda for his inauguration were people with more blood on their hands than every serial killer in U.S. history, says John Wight.
Biden Commutes Sentence of Leonard Peltier
Biden’s last-minute move allows the American Indian Movement activist, imprisoned for nearly half a century, to “spend his remaining days in home confinement.”
American Empire, Analysis, Censorship, China, Colonialism, Commentary, Gaza, History, Immigration, Indigenous People, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Panama, Politics, Trump Administration, U.S., Ukraine
The Imperial Presidency Marches On
As he was sworn in for a second time, Donald Trump openly declared America to be a territorial empire that would expand, even to Mars, reports Joe Lauria.
Caity Johnstone: Biden Was Just That Bad
Trump will do many evil things but none will reverse the fact that Biden just spent four years advancing genocide, nuclear brinkmanship and authoritarianism.
Still Time to Get a Copy of ‘Den of Spies’
We are extending until Jan. 31 your chance to make a donation to Consortium News and get Craig Unger’s new book on the October Surprise.
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Starmer’s Support for Gaza Ceasefire Riddled With Lies
Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. How is a “sovereign and viable Palestinian state,” or a “better future,” going to emerge out of ruins on that scale?
LA Fire Cuts … Billions for Israel & Ukraine
At a time when U.S. domestic crises demand urgent attention, Robert Inlakesh highlights unwavering governmental foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine.
Vijay Prashad: Ending the War in Ukraine
As NATO fails in its attempt to expand into Ukraine, popular support has shifted significantly in favour of a path to peace.
Chris Hedges: The Ceasefire Charade
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
Craig Murray: Ceasefire Not an End
What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the genocide. The author saw Israel break the ceasefire in Lebanon every day, and expects the same in Gaza.
Stealing Credit for the Gaza Ceasefire
There’s little doubt Donald Trump’s intervention was the main reason for the Gaza ceasefire but predictably Joe Biden, who facilitated genocide until the bitter end, is saying it was him on his way out the door, says Joe Lauria.
Commentary, Election 2024, Intelligence, Legal, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept., U.S. Supreme Courrt, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
A Switch in Time?
Andrew P. Napolitano on Tulsi Gabbard’s abandonment of the people’s constitutional protection from spying under the Fourth Amendment.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Cuba, Obama Administration, Politics, Trump Administration, U.S., United Nations
Biden Leaves Cuba’s Terror De-Listing to Bitter End
Critics say it should not have taken the president four years to take Cuba off the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
‘National Scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza Cover-Up
Britain’s “public service broadcaster” has kept the public in the dark about U.K. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, writes Mark Curtis.
Biden Administration, China, Commentary, Israel, Media, Palestine, Press Freedom, Russia, U.S. State Department, Ukraine
Patrick Lawrence: The Nihilism of Antony Blinken
In a send-off interview with The New York Times, Biden’s secretary of state renders a sober-sounding account of the world as the retiring regime now leaves it that is so shockingly far from reality as to be frightening.