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Consortiumnews.com, Intelligence, Media, Spring Fund Drive, VIPS

When the Intelligence is Questionable, Come to Where the Intelligence is Questioned

April 21, 2021

Corporate media unquestioningly regurgitates dubious intelligence that promotes U.S. interests abroad. Consortium News has a track record of questioning the “official story.”

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Commentary, Propaganda, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

The CIA Used to Infiltrate the Media

April 20, 2021

Now the CIA is the media. This isn’t Operation Mockingbird, writes Caitlin Johnstone. It’s  much worse.

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Commentary, Economy, Propaganda, United Kingdon

‘Power to the Platform:’ The Tactics of Airbnb & Uber

April 20, 2021

Luke Yates says they are  similar to traditional astroturfing, but with key differences.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Foreign Policy, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Trump Administration, U.S.

Vienna Talks Reveal Biden Team’s Attachment to Trump’s Illegal Sanctions

April 20, 2021

By enriching uranium at the 60 percent level of purity, Iran is applying its own strategy of diplomatic leverage, Gareth Porter reports. 

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, U.S.

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Banner Headlines on Afghanistan Obscure US Motives

April 19, 2021

Exceptionalism and universalism are the third rails in the U.S.: Any public figure who questions either will suffer a kind of political electrocution.

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Commentary, Economy, Foreign Policy, Gun Violence, Militarism, U.S.

Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire

April 19, 2021

U.S. leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.

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Race Relations, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Mobs Rioted in Washington 173 Years Ago Monday to Defend Slaveholders

April 19, 2021

The violence on April 18-19, 1848, which targeted the abolitionist press, followed one of the largest attempted escapes from slavery in U.S. history, Michael David Cohen recounts.

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Media, Spring Fund Drive, United Nations

When Media at Least Tried to Be Impartial

April 19, 2021

It was never easy, but part of the code of practicing journalism was to not favor one political party over the other in day-to-day political reporting.

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Commentary, Labor, U.S.

Amazon Union Vote Shows Why PRO Act Is Needed

April 19, 2021

Rebekah Entralgo says current federal labor law isn’t strong enough to thwart corporate union busting.

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Assange extradition, Biden Administration, CN Live!, International, Legal, WikiLeaks

WATCH: Worldwide Members of Parliament Back Assange

April 17, 2021

An international symposium of parliamentarians, including Jeremy Corbyn, spoke on Saturday in a Don’t Extradite Assange production simulcast by CN Live! Watch the replay here.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Iran, Nuclear Weapons

Hawks Who Want War with Iran Work Overtime

April 16, 2021

Opponents of the nuclear deal are trying to maintain draconian Trump-era sanctions, write Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin. 

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Media

What Biden Didn’t Say About US in Afghanistan

April 16, 2021

Troops on the ground aren’t the only measure of horrific warfare, writes Norman Solomon.  

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Help Us Help You Get the Real News

April 16, 2021

Consortium News on Friday launched its Spring Fund Drive to raise enough money to pay our writers, editors and staff to continue providing you with the Web’s best take on the news.

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Commentary, Human Rights, United Kingdon

Britain Must Learn from Burma Bloodbath

April 15, 2021

Diplomats should think hard about why their policy of aiding and trading with the regime went so wrong, write Phil Miller and Matt Kennard.

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Commentary, United Kingdon

Long Live the Monarchy! And So They Do

April 15, 2021

British royals outlive their subjects by three full decades, writes S. Jay Olshansky.

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Media, Militarism, Propaganda, Women

Media Once Again Trolling US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

April 15, 2021

As usual it comes in an outbreak of various “concerns,” which Caitlin Johnstone says are all designed to conceal the real agenda.

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Commentary, Health Reform, Militarism, U.S.

Arming US Cities With Military-Grade Healthcare

April 14, 2021

Instead of militarizing the police, Laura Flanders says the U.S. should have veterans’ care for all.  

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American Empire, China, Commentary, Intelligence, Militarism, Pentagon, Vietnam

Pentagon Tried to Recruit Vietnam as Ally Against China

April 14, 2021

Gareth Porter reports on a deluded U.S. war strategy.

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Economy, Legal

Life Inside the Weird World of Bernie Madoff, Who Died on Wednesday

April 14, 2021

Bernie Madoff, who ran the biggest ponzi scheme ever known, died in prison on Wednesday at age 82.  We republish here an interview with Madoff’s messenger by CN Editor Joe Lauria and written in 2009 for The Sunday Times.

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Column, Commentary, Middle East, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

THE ANGRY ARAB: Jordan’s Precarious Throne

April 14, 2021

As`ad AbuKhalil analyzes the crisis besetting a king whose country has lost strategic significance under his reign.   

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Africa, Books, Britain, Commentary, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Craig Murray: My Day With Prince Philip

April 13, 2021

Below is the story of a day touring Tema, Ghana, with Prince Philip, in this chapter from Murray’s book The Catholic Orangemen of Togo. The reader may be surprised.

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Brazil, Commentary, COVID-19, Health Reform, Human Rights

COVID-19: Brazil & the Need for a ‘New Solidarity’

April 13, 2021

Brazilian health expert Margareth Dalcolmo says Covid-19-induced mortality has a social component that cannot be ignored — people are dying because they are poor.

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Censorship, Commentary, Media, United Kingdon

We Only Notice When a Royal Dies

April 12, 2021

Jonathan Cook says the wall-to-wall propaganda surrounding the death of Prince Philip may look exceptional but is in fact entirely routine.   

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Assange extradition, Australia, Britain, CN Live!, Ecuador, Election 2016, Intelligence, International, Legal, WikiLeaks

WATCH: CN Live! — 2 Yrs After Arrest: ‘Lawmakers for Assange’; Exclusive: Labor Party Resolution of Support

April 12, 2021

On the 2nd anniversary of the arrest, Australian MPs joined CN Live! to tell PM Scott Morrison to pick up the phone and tell Joe Biden to release Julian Assange. Watch the replay here. 

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Commentary, COVID-19, United Kingdon

A Manchester United for a More Equal Metropolis

April 12, 2021

Sam Pizzigati says the British urban center has just delivered what egalitarians worldwide have sorely needed in the face of this pandemic. 

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COVID-19, Election 2020, Politics, U.S.

Auditing Absentee Ballot Deadlines in US 2020 Election

April 12, 2021

The results provide perspective on a controversy that sharply divided the Supreme Court, writes Richard Pildes. 

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Britain, Censorship, Civil Rights, Commentary, Germany, History, Intelligence, International, Legal, Media, Obama Administration, Politics, Propaganda, U.S., Vietnam, WikiLeaks

How America’s Official Secrets Act Ensnared Julian Assange

April 11, 2021

If the U.S. wins its appeal, Julian Assange will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria.

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American Empire, Censorship, Commentary, Media, Secrecy, U.S.

Bitcoin: Revolutionary Money in a Time of Universal Deceit

April 9, 2021

In the cryptocurrency’s decentralized network, Nozomi Hayase says those who seek to conspire in secret have no place to hide, as Bitcoin aids WikiLeaks’ mission to keep governments transparent and honest.

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American Empire, China, Intelligence, Propaganda, Right Wing, U.S.

US-Funded Uyghur Activists Train as Soldiers of Empire

April 8, 2021

Profoundly illiberal forces lie behind the veneer of a peaceful campaign for human rights, Ajit Singh reports.  

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American Empire, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

People-to-People Projects Build Israeli Impunity

April 8, 2021

Yara Hawari details how citizen-diplomacy legislation passed by U.S. Congress in December undermines Palestinian rights.

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American Empire, Commentary, International News Analysis, Militarism, Propaganda, Syria, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Imperialism of Foolery

April 7, 2021

Pro-Western Syrian exiles have issued a diatribe against the most informative critics of U.S. war policy at a time when Washington’s aggressiveness is reaching new levels of intensity.

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Civil Rights, Commentary, Police Brutality, Racism

Calling Chauvin a ‘Bad Apple’ Denies Systemic Nature of Racist Police Violence

April 7, 2021

Regardless of the trial outcome, Marjorie Cohn says the entire system must be indicted as racist and violent.

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Commentary, France, Right Wing

Emmanuel Macron’s Dangerous Election Gamble

April 7, 2021

Bruno Amable says the French president, in order to continue his neoliberal project, is wooing the country’s right-wing base.

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