Three days after a massive attack on Consortium News we are back online after winning the battle. But this is a war.
Consortium News has defeated an attack on America’s oldest independent news site. For now.
After being completely taken over for nearly 72 hours, CN was able to wrest back control of our site from the attackers and resume our ability to publish again.
Our victory was just one battle in an escalating war against a free press, however, which has included recent arrests, interrogations and home raids against journalists both in Britain and the U.S.
Now that we are back online we are focusing on trying to uncover who did this to us. Unfortunately we think we know why. Someone was so upset with what we write and say that they committed a crime to try to stop us.
We thank all of our readers and viewers for their patience while we were taken over and for their continued support.
It’s a sign of the times I’m afraid. Glad you are back!
Great that you are back. Not having Consortiumnews certainly left a hole in my day.
Honest reporting and truth frighten the vermin that want to control the narrative for their own purposes. Wonderful that you prevailed!
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I am still not able to access CN from a Chrome or DuckDuckgo browser
I am able to go to your site from Firefox
If I send you an email to your email address, which I have done two times, the message does NOT show up in my Sent Mail file
If I go to your link from either of those other twp browsers I get the page below
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Fantastic news that you won the battle. A strike back on the evil ones trying to block CN means one has to be on guard all the time.
Please find out who did this and please find a way to hold them accountable for what they did and please keep us informed in whatever way we can to help you. God speed.
This may be the “October Surprise” that Hillary promised recently. Super critical to lose all contact with the voting public just days before the election. They can and will spew whatever false narratives they see fit to add to their vote total, while you, being disappeared, cannot refute their lies and wrest away any of the few undecided voters. Like their man said: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” Great model for the world we make!
It’s nearing midnight Thursday, 31 Oct, in South Florida and this turf seems to be still controlled by the Ukies, the Israelis or Hillary Clinton, because only that bullshit about “Etudes” and WordPutz appears on my screen.
My thoughts go out to you , Joe Lauria and co-editors. @Consortiumnews should not be subjected to such politically motivated harassment by online bullies and cowards. Stay strong. @caitoz @johnmenadue @abcnews. By @tonykevin
So glad CN got its website back! I missed yall. I hope you are able to take legal action against whoever did this and win damages. Important!
“… don’t it always seem to go
that you don’t know what you’ve got
til it’s gone?”
kudos to your IT cracks!
i’m so glad you won this fight,
so glad to have you back.
i missed CN from the minute
i realized that sth was amiss.
but honestly,
i’m surprised the hack happened ‘only’ now.
i expected it to happen when i discovered CN years ago.
“how come they leave this source of reliable information
alone these days?”, i asked myself. “is it a kind of fig leaf
operation, with them deciding to leave a few progressive news
outlets untouched so they can brag: ‘look, we ARE democratic!’?”
be safe!
Thanks to all who aided the quick recovery of control over your domain and host services.
I an appalled at this apparent political attack, but not surprised.
The hackers were likely cutouts aligned with secret agencies or a political party.
The FBI is well known to harass those who observe their abuses of public office.
The zionists are among the most likely suspects in motive and practices.
It would be a top story to identify the hackers!
Just wait. They’re gonna blame it all on the Russians. (Might even be their excuse to nuke Russia.) Even though they lost the Russiagate case in the courts, they still include it in their standing stock of lies for desperately needed support.
No assumptions from my end, but looking forward to the reveal when you find out and let us know. The once proud WP line, “Truth dies in the darkness.” certainly applies. Keep fighting for the light.
Really glad to see you back. Hope it is for good. Not necessarily connected ofc, but CN went down, and a journalist from Electronic Intifada got the police “visiting” and stealing his electronics at almost the same time. Bad news all around.
So glad you’re back. We’re mad as hell at the low life who did this to you and us. Need for us all to unite so it doesn’t happen again.
I don’t expect Russia to be behind this attack……..
Grad
Glad you are back. You are in good company. Wikileaks has been under attack for years. Many of us are in some way or another, fighting to stay on top of the vast cloud of bull-shit that hangs over everything these days.
Very pleased to see you back ^^ Be prudent ;)
Welcome back. Consortium News’ website with its informative reporting was missed.
Best of luck with your investigation.
I tried eliminating all open tabs on my iPhone and it took everything away except for the bogus website….still cannot open consortiumnew.com…any thoughts?
It’s consortiumnews.com with an s. News, not new.
Same here. The official link is taking me to some website selling web services or something. I’m talking about the link that is the updated CN site intro. I got here by following a link for this specific article, after having scrolled down to it, bypassing the “official” link.
Excellent! Great job and congrats for prevailing against the backstabbing lizards who tried to kill you. HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE!!! :^))))))
Curious to know who did it !!
Its really so obvious.
When I searched on Bing and Google for “what happened to Consortium News” the response made it look like it had never existed.
When I searched on Yandex for the same it responded with all CN’s internet archive.
So who can control Bing and Google?
We need a free speech movement as well as a peace movement, I’m surprised there are any alternative news sites given the power of AIPAC and the imperial warmongers.
All your readers will be interested to find out the reason for the disruption to your news, CN
There are few sources of news that one can rely on in this day and age. CN would have a following that is very appreciative of their service and who rely on this source of TRUTH to keep them informed, hoping that sooner or later others will join the ranks of truthful news reporting. as well. Can’t see any pointers in this direction at the moment so the world needs you . Continued success.
You have more than earned your place in history, led since day one by a fine man who I have had the privilege to communicate with on many occasions.
More strength to you.
Qui bono? Especially, qui bono this close to an election? People post your articles to educate friends about horrible things the parties that are trying to get re-elected or elected have done in the Mideast, Ukraine and elsewhere.
Also, who has the sophistication to carry it out?
It’s your government. One way, or another, it’s your vicious, cowardly, criminal government.
Agree with your comment. As much as I dislike Trump and have some huge doubts, I fear the party now in the White House even more for all the lies and disinformation and their attack on free speech and the integrity media/press along with the wars and their obvious lack of concern for their own nation. It is truly their own fault that people are voting for Trump. X is looking into some shenanigans because Harris is not being fact-checked on many of her comments in Community Notes in which you can do that. X kicked me off some time ago permanently and glad to know I’m in good company with the likes of Nathan Robinson. Did not vote for either of these pretenders.
I’m still getting the fake site when I try to go to the home page. If I type in the URL the fake site comes up. So there’s still a problem. I can access individual reports posted by CN that arrive in my email. But that’s all.
Please flush your cache and refresh the page.
This old guy needs help with “flush your cache and refresh..” I have MacBook Pro.
Btw, it the rumor true that, through the good offices of Rep Adam Schiff, you got Crowdstrike to get you back up and running? :-)
Yes, this old guy needs to know how to do that on an Android phone. I keep getting sent to “Etude” or something like that.
Thank goodness you’re back! Thank you so much for all your hard work. No question, we’re in 1984 territory. This attack was retaliation for telling the truth and fighting the censors.
Glad to see you successfully wrested your site back. These Mossad/CIA goons will never stop truth (I hope they’re reading all these comments btw, and if they are – my message to them is Go fuck yourselves you Fascist murderous scum),
I also noticed this morning my Rumble App (used to watch RT) was having difficulty loading content. Seems you’re not alone
Keep up the great work! We journalists and supporters of a free press are always behind you!! Chins up, fight on!
Mossad or CIA? Is there a difference? Does it matter? The barbarism in the Middle East is at a level not seen since the genocide in Eastern Europe. Prior to Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the invasion of the Soviet Union, it was explicit policy to starve THIRTY MILLION Russians to death. The Soviet Union suffered between TWENTY AND TWENTY SEVEN MILLION victims. IDF or WAFFEN SS, EINSATZ GRUPPEN or ISRAELI AIRFORCE. What’s the difference? CN is crucial to talk about this reality. I hope that readers are reading Al Jazeera daily to keep up with the level of daily massacres largely ignored by the entire Western Press.
Hang in there guys – you’re the best there ever was, and I’ve missed you. BUT I knew I’d see you again soon, Whew!
My guess is AIPAC!
Thank goodness! well done, and congratulations for ‘winning the battle’ on this occasion. Obviously the credibility of your reporting has drawn the ire of those managing the ‘mind-space’, and you are over too many targets!
CN is a primary trusted news source for me.
So pleased you are back online… And very curious to know who was the culprit! This attack on your excellent journalism was doomed to backfire: So why go ahead with the plan and risk being uncovered?
Is the rot in the Empire so deep that they don’t care anymore about appearances and are into naked intimidation?
Holy Cow! I didn’t know what was going on only that I couldn’t get into CN – I just kept getting some stupid blog page set up which wouldn’t let me go any farther. I’m so glad you are back up and running! CN is definitely my go to source for truth, honesty and integrity. I’m sure the US government and western cronies were responsible – who else would be capable of doing this dastardly deed? I’m so glad you are back up and running – I’m amazed at how much I missed you these past few days!
USGov & Western Cronies? Hell, they’ve got full support from the guy who created Google, hangs around Silicon Valley, hates Putin and has the initials “SB.” Don’t know if he keeps a special list like Zelensky does.
If there were water
And no rock
If there were rock
And also water
And water
A spring
A pool among the rock
If there were the sound of water only
Not the cicada
And dry grass singing
But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
Waste Land//Eliot
Beautiful…..thank you. Brings me back to my youth when I had all of Waste Land and half of Four Quartets memorized. Elliot’s lines have enriched my mind all these decades, but I never run into them in the mind space I live in now.
I sincerely hope you are able to track down the culprit(s). They need to be exposed and face legal consequences. I also wouldn’t be surprised to learn it was our own government which is eager to shut down any and all independent thought. This is not only a fight to retain the right to speak and publish, but the right to think for ourselves.
Cowards & LIARS , the whole fucking lot of the sniveling under rock crawling fascists.
Welcome Back CN! You are my number one news source.
At the same time as CN went off line DW News (Germany) reported that both political campaigns had their telecom services hacked. The FBI report suggested that China was responsible….. Yeah, sure.
Congratulations!!!
While you’re looking for the culprits, keep in mind that very often, timing is everything.
Hmmm….
“There are no great men. There are only great challenges, which ordinary people such as you and I are forced to meet by circumstance.” – Wm F. Halsey
When cats are startled, they pick up there head, faster than you can see, and look around. That is the natual reponse to fear: curiosity and inventory.
How much of the Apollo XIII successfull failure, had to do with choosing lesser evill???
Homo sapiens can do better than this.
I would not be the least bit surprised to learn that your own government did this to CN
At this stage Washington and Israel are one single entity under AIPAC. That would be my guess.
Yes…it is obviously the NSA et al.
Hence the party in power is probably responsible.
The Republicans would not be able to pull this off.
Keep up the fight! You know you’re over the target when you start taking flack.