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What I Got Wrong About Julian Assange
Those who revealed un-redacted cables have never been prosecuted nor requested to remove them from the internet, writes Dean Yates.
Censorship, American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Iran, Media, Propaganda, Trump Administration, U.S.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Obedient Censors at Meta
A monopolistic Silicon Valley mega-corporation deleting political speech about an important historical figure because Washington says he was a terrorist is a notably brazen act of censorship.
American Empire, Africa, Analysis, Biden Administration, Commentary, International, Middle East, Militarism, Pentagon, Terrorism, The Bush-43 Administration, Torture, U.S. Congress, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
The War on Terror Is a Success — for Terror
Nick Turse reports on the proliferation of U.S. military targets since U.S. Congress gave successive presidents an essentially free hand to make war around the world.
Craig Murray: Your Man in Saughton Jail
Murray recommends a spell there to any other middle-class person who, like himself, was foolish enough to believe that Scotland is a socially progressive country.
The Propaganda Engulfing Jamal Khashoggi
As’ad AbuKhalil writes this “friend” of Western journalists was close to the ruthless regime, even to the commander of his own eventual assassination squad. He’ll be remembered as the servant of Saudi princes and an early champion of bin Laden.
Secrecy, Argentina, Censorship, Intelligence, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, United Kingdon, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
UK Deployed 31 Nuclear Weapons During Falklands War
British warships in 1982 were armed with dozens of nuclear depth charges in a nuclear-free zone in Latin America, Richard Norton-Taylor reports.
Lowering the Throne of America’s Delusion
The U.S. will not face reality about its foreign policy disasters but rather retreats to fantasy worlds that exist only in its own imagination, writes Michael Brenner.
Schism in US Judaism Deepens
As the Ultra-Orthodox pack their bags for Israel, Lawrence Davidson says other American Jews remain in place and continue an increasingly heated debate over human rights versus Zionism.
Replacing the Pipes from Coast to Coast
Gabriel Filippelli welcomes the $15 billion in the recently enacted infrastructure bill but says it is still not enough for the de-leading work needed nationwide in the U.S.
New Year’s Day 2050
The international community will, by mid-century, need to find new forms of collaboration to contain the damage wrought by climate catastrophe, writes Alfred W. McCoy.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: My Resolution to Write
In 2022, I’m going to write more to people in prison and in Congress too, the author vows.
UN Official Also on the Board of Shell
If Jane Holl Lute’s many endeavors outside the U.N. passed the institution’s ethics test, her latest gig became more complicated, Stéphanie Fillion reports.
American Empire, Assange extradition, Brazil, Britain, Commentary, International, Latin America, Russia, Ukraine, WikiLeaks
WATCH: Galloway & Lauria on What to Expect in 2022
Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria spoke to George and Gayatri Galloway about what the year 2022 might bring.
WATCH: Assange: Can Exposure Bring Justice?
Join Fidel Narváez, former consul at the Ecuador embassy in London, and John Kiriakou, former C.I.A. officer and CN columnist, discussing Julian Assange’s case. Produced by the First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee, WI. Watch the replay.
HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM CONSORTIUM NEWS!
WATCH: Pilger, Parry, Hedges, Stein and Stone
John Pilger, Nat Parry, Chris Hedges, Jill Stein and Oliver Stone with a special year-end message.
New Year’s Eve 2017: Bob Parry’s Last Article–A Manifesto on the State of Journalism
On New Year’s Eve 2017, less than a month before he would die, CN founder Bob Parry wrote his last article, a manifesto on the remit of journalism and its threatened demise, a chilling forecast of what was to come.
Analysis, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Chile, Commentary, COVID-19, Cuba, Human Rights, Income Inequality, International, Venezuela
A Bittersweet 2021
Afghanistan, American Empire, Argentina, Biden Administration, China, Commentary, COVID-19, Environment, International, Iran, Labor, Latin America, Mexico, Militarism, Nuclear Weapons, U.S.
Yes, 10 Good Things About 2021
If gains can be made in a year as disastrous as this one, just think what might be accomplished in 2022, writes Medea Benjamin.
THE ANGRY ARAB: How Mossad Helps Arab Despots
Since its inception, the Israeli intelligence agency has been a terrorist organization, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
Caitlin Johnstone: Reading Both Sides
People who leap to embrace pro-Western arguments against imperial-targeted governments rarely consider anything that opposes the TV news.
NAT PARRY: ‘My Father Would Be Proud’
Nat Parry, the son of the late Robert Parry, founder of this site, says Consortium News is carrying on his father’s work with an independent and principled approach to journalism.
American Empire, Analysis, Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Censorship, Commentary, Intelligence, Iraq, Julian Assange, Media, Middle East, Militarism, Obama Administration, Propaganda, Trump Administration, U.S., United Nations, WikiLeaks
Throwing a Shoe at the Illegal US War on Iraq
Vijay Prashad explains why a group of international media organizations reject and denounce the U.S. government’s attack on Julian Assange and journalism.
American Empire, Analysis, Biden Administration, Cold War, Column, Commentary, Europe, Media, Russia
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin Speaks
As the Russian president’s year-end presser helped underscore, Europe will increasingly understand itself as the western end of Eurasia rather than the eastern shore of the Atlantic.
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‘Don’t Look Up’ Is No Laughing Matter
Chris Hedges: PEN America Uncoils Rope to Get Assange
Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.
Chris Hedges: CN’s ‘Courageous & Independent’ Assange Reporting
One of the leading journalists’ of our age expounds on the unique importance of Consortium News.
Jill Stein: CN Is a ‘Lifeline to the Democracy We Need’
“Consortium News is among a handful of media organizations doing real journalism, informing & inspiring us to the task of citizenship in a democracy on life-support. It is a lifeline to the democracy we need, and I urge you to…
JOHN PILGER: ‘What Newspapers Used to Be’
One of the world’s greatest journalists and documentary filmmakers says there is no finer journalism on the net than Consortium News: “Its up-to-the minute news and analysis are superb.”
American Empire, Analysis, Biden Administration, Commentary, Intelligence, Media, Militarism, Obama Administration, U.S., Ukraine
How Not to Explain the Ukraine Crisis
The PBS NewsHour invited on just about the worst person in the U.S. government to help Americans understand the crisis in Ukraine, writes Mike Madden.
