The vice president’s recent episode at George Mason University is based on a dispute over what is real, writes Lawrence Davidson.
The Groundwork Collaborative finds that a handful of companies now exert an ever-greater degree of market control.
The same judge that overturned an earlier High Court decision to exclude Assange’s health from the U.S. appeal will preside over the substantive appeal hearing next week.
Kingpins like Kravis and Roberts have been hollowing out the hopes of average working people and the communities they call home, writes Sam Pizzigati.
Francine Townsend loved where she lived until a corporation entwined with a Toronto-based private equity firm took ownership of it.
This excerpt is from the author’s newest book, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee told Yahoo! News that the committee has asked Langley to explain reports of plans to kill or kidnap the WikiLeaks publisher.
Any narrative about an empire-targeted nation backed by U.S. officials must be presumed false until it’s been backed by mountains of independently verifiable evidence, Caity Johnstone writes.
Is society safer with Daniel Hale, who exposed U.S. drone civilian killings, being housed with some of the most dangerous prisoners in America?
After decades of wage stagnation, Dean Baker is glad to see real progress for at least some at the bottom of the wage ladder.
The Jewish Chronicle warns that the dismissal of Professor David Miller by the University of Bristol is “just the beginning,” writes Jonathan Cook.
Praise from the legendary filmmaker for Consortium News and our founder Bob Parry: “I love their writers. I have contributed in the past and continue to do so.”
From the Archive: Colin Powell’s role as a military adviser in Vietnam during the My Lai massacre has continued to elude scrutiny, Robert Parry and Norman Solomon said in 1996.
An article in the NYT Magazine tells us how the CIA helped cook the evidence to invade Iraq and why Colin Powell should have resigned rather than go along with it.
Regime change, not disarmament, was always the driving factor behind U.S. policy towards Saddam Hussein. Powell knew this because he helped craft the original policy.
Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, wrote this profile in 2004 of Colin Powell, who died at 84 of Covid-19 on Monday.
In her ruling in January against extraditing the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser expressed a high degree of understanding for the CIA wanting to rub out Assange, writes Joe Lauria.
Matt Kennard and Phil Miller’s new film about a BAE factory town features an ex-government adviser on Saudi arms sales speaking on camera with a journalist for the first time.
It is generally easier for countries that offer development finance for energy projects to make low-carbon rules for others, not for themselves, write Benjamin Attia and Morgan Bazilian.
The U.K. embassy in Bogotá has launched an environmentally-focused public relations project while Britain trains the country’s repressive security forces, Matt Kennard reports.
Caitlin Johnstone responds to Netflix’s revival of a 2013 documentary that WikiLeaks, at the time, refuted as irresponsible libel.
In 2013, Jonathan Cook encountered a master class in propaganda when he watched We Steal Secrets, Alex Gibney’s documentary about WikiLeaks and its founder.
Longtime residents find themselves forced to compete against the “urban food machine,” writes Pascale Joassart-Marcelli.
Three anthropologists explain why land acknowledgments and the related welcoming ritual can help erase history.
Caitlin Johnstone warns of a not-too-distant future in which unmanned weapons systems are sought out by wealthy civilians.
Consortium News is offering special benefits to members of the first independent news site on the Web, founded by legendary investigative journalist Bob Parry in 1995.
NATO is spinning out an entirely new kind of combat it has branded cognitive warfare, Ben Norton reports.
The regime’s mouthpiece, Al-Watan, simply said that the president forgave him for “all that he had done,” writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
The first U.S. president to officially commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day is facing backlash for supporting the Line 3 tar sands pipeline and other fossil-fuel expansion projects.
