On this day last year Consortium News lost its founder and editor Robert Parry, who succumbed to cancer at 68. We look back on his life in this video of his memorial service in Arlington, VA on April 14, 2018.
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Month: January 2019
Venezuela’s US-Backed Coup Leader Immediately Targets State Oil Company and Requests IMF Money
Unelected U.S.-backed coup leader Juan Guaidó immediately moved to try to restructure Venezuela’s state-owned oil company and seek financing from the neoliberal IMF, reports Ben Norton of The Gray Zone.
The Radicalization of US Policy on Venezuela
Not since the Cuban revolution, has the U.S. government played such an overtly activist role in Latin America, writes Steve Ellner.
Watch the 14th Vigil for Assange
Julian Assange’s lawyers filed a petition with the Inter-American Court for Human Rights and WikiLeaks is mentioned in a new Mueller indictment unveiled Friday, two of the topics that were discussed on the 14th Vigil on Friday.
Senate Energy Democrats Hire Former Industry Lobbyist to Lead Staff
A contradiction is unfolding inside the party as it pushes for a Green New Deal, writes Steve Horn.
The Democrats’ Fear of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Primaries are a way to replace passive liberals with progressive boat-rockers, writes Norman Solomon.
Second-Round Stakes Higher for Trump and Kim
The North Korea leader obviously wants a deal, writes Patrick Lawrence, which gives the U.S. a historic opportunity next month.
Assange Lawyers File Petition to Get US to Reveal Charges and Stop Ecuador From Extraditing Him
Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher want the OAS independent body to keep Assange from being sent to a courtroom in the U.S. and to end his isolation.
The Unwritten Rule Between the US and Hizbullah
The two sides have long agreed to keep their hostilities covert, writes As`ad AbuKhalil, but Israel would like that to change.
A ‘Tick Tock’ Incident in the Land of the Piscataway
As each timeline emerged in the story, it seemed to offer a correction to an earlier version that muddied the moral of the story in its rush to judgement, says Corinna Barnard.