From Jeremy Corbyn, WikiLeaks, Afshin Rattansi, Max Blumenthal, Jonathan Cook, Scott Ritter, Vijay Prashad, Glenn Greenwald, Tariq Ali, Matt Kennard, Roger Waters and more.
Tributes Pour in For John Pilger
Author: Consortiumnews.com
The World Has Lost John Pilger
One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of any generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday.
Last Day to Make 2023 Tax-Deductible Donation
New Year’s Eve is the last day of the U.S. tax year and the last day to deduct a contribution to Consortium News from your 2023 returns.
WATCH: New Year’s Eve Concert for Julian Assange
British rock group Alabama 3, famed for the Sopranos theme, performs a concert dedicated to imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange at one minute to midnight GMT, 6:59 pm EST. Watch it here.
Israel: SA Is Anti-Semitic to Invoke Genocide Convention
False accusations of anti-semitism are all Israel and its defenders have left. Once the “But Hamas!” and “But Oct. 7!” excuses are spent, false accusations of hating Jews is all that remains, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Empiricism vs. Ideology
If you examine evidence without pre-conceived notions your conclusions won’t fall neatly into camps but will be all over the political map.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Mess They Made of 2023
Craig Murray: What We’ve Learned in 2023
The author has no doubt we are in for a period of more propaganda, fake terrorist plots, false flag actual terrorism and agent provocateur-led terrorism.
The Origins of Christmas
Today’s holiday culture wars continue an ancient struggle, as Nat Parry explores in this adaptation from his book, How Christmas Became Christmas: The Pagan and Christian Origins of the Beloved Holiday.
When The New Yorker Tried to Preempt a Future Biden Impeachment
In 2019, The New Yorker‘s partisan Jane Mayer tried to blame Republicans for “conspiracy theories” that now make up substantial evidence in Joe Biden’s impeachment inquiry, wrote Joe Lauria.