The world is in deep crisis: genocides in Gaza and Sudan; nuclear war lurking over Ukraine; civil rights eviscerated across the West and a disinforming media obscuring it all to shield the responsible. CN is here to help.
The Venezuelan tanker seizure and Denmark’s anxiety about Greenland both show the White House’s bullying 2025 National Security Strategy in brazen action.
Mahmoud Khalil and Michael T. Workman discuss the new film documenting the student encampments at Columbia University and the brutal crackdown that eradicated them.
Israel has created a false death toll debate that relates only to those who were killed directly by its bombs and gunfire — not the genocide it is waging by other means.
In a spy flight documentary released Thursday by Declassified UK, the father of a former Royal Marine killed in Gaza says footage captured by an opaque U.K. surveillance program could clarify what happened to his son.
The Lemkin Institute this week denounced the former secretary of state for trivializing young Americans’ opposition to Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
Mary Kostakidis, a national TV news presenter in Australia for two decades, has asked a federal judge to throw out the Zionist Federation’s charge against her of racially vilifying Jews, reports Joe Lauria.
Trump is undermining the Constitution and the value of laws in the U.S. with his illegal strikes on boats off the coast of Venezuela, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Consortium News’ reporting has stood out since the 2012 arbitrary detention and later imprisonment of Julian Assange; the U.S. using social media firms to curb speech after 2016; and the vast crackdown against criticism of Israel in Gaza.
Here are some key extracts to give you an idea of what has been going on in the U.K. trial of six peace activists accused of the attack inside Elbit Systems’ Filton factory on Aug. 6, 2024.
With this prosecution, the British government hopes to legitimize its proscription of Palestine Action and deflect attention from its own sustained support for Israel’s genocide.
The U.S. secretary of state has consistently undercut Trump’s professed goals of diplomacy, negotiated settlements and “America First” priorities, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Eric Ross on Washington’s longstanding project to shape the hemisphere in ways that would entrench U.S. power further and protect the profits of Western multinationals.
Robert Parry wrote: Dec. 9 has a grim meaning for the U.S. Republic, the date in 2004 when Gary Webb was driven to ruin by vindictive colleagues, demarcating when the U.S. press went from protecting people to shielding corruption.
Consortium News founder Robert Parry wrote this short history of the site in 2011, explaining the principles that still guide CN after 30 years of continuous publication.
Author and journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler chronicles the disturbing history of chess’ greatest players and those obsessed with the game.
Alastair Crooke on the Trump administration’s most recent National Security Strategy, which critiques U.S. pursuit of global primacy as a failure.
Speakers from four affected countries — Cuba, Nicaragua, Palestine and Venezuela — describe the deadly toll of blockades and sanctions, particularly on children under 5.
A look at the complicated process that has evolved to choose the next U.N. secretary general who will assume office in 2027. Ben Donaldson reports.
Mona Ali Khalil says the U.N. chief has a duty to take further measures to restrain Israel as it escalates and expands its violations of international humanitarian and rights law.
