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Volume 24, Number 223—–Independent Investigative Journalism Since 1995—–August 11, 2018

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Commentary, Foreign Policy, International

Election Results Could be Good for Pakistan, Bad for US

August 10, 2018 • 0 Comments

The election of Imran Khan as Pakistan’s new president further underscores America’s futile military strategy in the region, argues Graham Fuller.

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Commentary, Media, Politics

In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship

August 10, 2018 • 20 Comments

In a corporatist system of government, wherein there is no meaningful separation between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship, argues Caitlin Johnstone in this commentary.

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International, Middle East, Palestine

The Faulty Logic Behind the Attack on BDS

August 9, 2018 • 30 Comments

Defenders of Israel are using flawed logic in trying to tar supporters of the age-old tactic of boycotts as anti-semitic, argues Lawrence Davidson.

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Consortium News Radio, International, Iraq, Media

Consortium News Radio— Episode 1: Peter Van Buren

August 9, 2018 • 41 Comments

INTRODUCING Consortium News Radio, an ongoing series of radio interviews with newsmakers and Consortium News writers intended to delve deeper into stories published on Consortium News.

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Human Rights, International, Middle East, Palestine

Flotilla Passengers Released by Israel; Many Battered and Bruised; USS Liberty Survivor Held For Days

August 9, 2018 • 47 Comments

Defending their illegal blockade of Gaza against what they see as infiltrators rather than activists bringing aid and making a point, Israeli soldiers physically assaulted a number of delegates and arrested them, including a USS Liberty survivor. 

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International, Politics

Giving Trump Carte Blanche for War

August 8, 2018 • 59 Comments

A little-noticed Senate bill would give Donald Trump blanket permission to launch wars in violation of the Constitution, says John Kiriakou.

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Media, Middle East, Politics, VIPS Memos

VIPS Asks Twitter to Restore Van Buren’s Account

August 7, 2018 • 90 Comments

The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity in a memo to the Twitter board of directors questions its decision to suspend the account of one of its members without due process.

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Intelligence, Media, Secrecy

Pilger Excoriates Media on Assange Silence

August 7, 2018 • 42 Comments

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.

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Britain, Intelligence, International, Media, Secrecy, VIPS Memos

VIPS Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange

August 6, 2018 • 65 Comments

Memorandum for: The US Embassies of Ecuador and the United Kingdom, and the U.S. State Department From: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Subject: Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange

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China, International, Russia, Trump Administration

Winning an Arms Race in Space Remains a Futile Fight

August 5, 2018 • 42 Comments

Donald Trump is not the first U.S. president to want to militarize life beyond Earth. But that is a bankrupt approach, believes Jonathan Marshall.

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Intelligence, Media, Secrecy

Journalists Are All Julian Assange

August 4, 2018 • 18 Comments

As Ecuador threatens to expel Julian Assange, CN Ed. Joe Lauria will speak in a 50-hr. online vigil for Assange on Sat., 8pm EDT. In 2010, Bob Parry, late CN founder & editor, wrote this incisive essay on Assange’s vital work. 

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International, Middle East, Syria

The Mystery Fixer Who is Negotiating an End to the Syrian War

August 4, 2018 • 41 Comments

A nearly unknown businessman named Khaled al Ahmad became Damascus’ secret liaison to the West and has quietly been dealing Syria’s grinding war to a close, reports Rhania Khalek.

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International, Russia

Hidden in Plain View in Belgrade

August 3, 2018 • 67 Comments

Why did NATO attack Yugoslavia in 1999, killing perhaps as many as 2,500 civilians? Here are some possible answers as Vladimir Golstein reflects back on that ugly episode.

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Intelligence, International, Iran, VIPS Memos

VIPS to Trump:  Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC

August 1, 2018 • 172 Comments

As drums beat again for war — this time on Iran—-the VIPS’ warning is again being disregarded as it was before the Iraq debacle and this time VIPS fear the consequences will be all-caps CATASTROPHIC. 

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Intelligence, International, Secrecy

Virginia State Senator in Rare Support by Politician for Assange

July 31, 2018 • 133 Comments

Julian Assange’s lawyers fear his extradition to the U.S. where they believe a sealed indictment in Virginia is awaiting him.  In a rare move by a U.S. politician, a state senator in Virginia has come out in support of Assange.

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Constitution, International, Legal

In Shielding US from Legal Obligations, Kavanaugh Conflates International Law with Foreign Laws

July 31, 2018 • 32 Comments

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has nothing but contempt for international law. But he has shown uncritical deference to executive power, particularly in the so-called war on terror cases, argues Marjorie Cohn.

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International, Middle East, Palestine

Gaza Flotilla Ship Al Awda Violently Seized by Israelis; USS Liberty Survivor Amongst Those Captured

July 30, 2018 • 142 Comments

UPDATED: Israeli forces have violently boarded a ship, being followed by Consortium News, that was headed to Gaza bringing humanitarian aid. A survivor of the USS Liberty is now in Israeli custody.

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International, Middle East, Palestine

Ahed Tamimi and Her Mother are Freed from Jail

July 29, 2018 • 47 Comments

Ahed Tamimi and her mother were freed from prison on Sunday. Ray McGovern looks back on when he met the Tamimi family last year in their West Bank village and reflects on the spirit that drives them.

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Britain, Intelligence, International

Living in a World Bereft of Privacy

July 27, 2018

As Edward Snowden confirmed beyond doubt, we live in a world where our most intimate moments can be seen by would-be extortioners and, more alarmingly, by our governments, says Annie Machon.

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Britain, International, Letter from Britain

Letter from Britain—Lost in a Brexit Maze: a Baffled Political Class Dreads the Prospect of Jeremy Corbyn

July 26, 2018

The British Establishment wants to protect the expanded privileges it inherited from Margaret Thatcher’s neoliberal legacy but appears clueless about how to deal with an increasingly rebellious British public, as Alexander Mercouris explains.

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International, Media, Politics, Russia, Russiagate

GOP and Corporate Dems Gain When Democrats Run Against Putin

July 26, 2018

Hammering on Russia is a losing strategy for progressives as most Americans care about economic issues and it is the Republicans and corporate Democrats who stand to gain, argues Norman Solomon.

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Intelligence, International, Media, Secrecy

The Gray Lady Thinks Twice About Assange’s Prosecution

July 25, 2018

Though The New York Times itself has not reported it, it’s No. 2 lawyer told a group of judges that the prosecution of Julian Assange could have dire consequences for the Times itself, explains Ray McGovern.

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Commentary, Intelligence, Russiagate

The Case for Stripping Former Officials of their Security Clearances

July 25, 2018

COMMENTARY: Former CIA agent John Kiriakou argues that no former intelligence official should be allowed to keep their security clearances when they leave government, especially if they work in the media.

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Europe, Germany, International, Spain

Catalonian Quest for Independence is Undeterred

July 25, 2018

In an interview with Consortium News, an independence leader and member of the Spanish parliament tells Attilio Moro that Catalonians are not finished seeking separation from Madrid.

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