In an audio leak, the leader of Israel’s main U.S. lobby detailed his organization’s grooming of Trump’s top national security officials.
Max Blumenthal: AIPAC CEO Brags of US Clout
Category: Foreign Policy
WATCH: A Foreign Policy of the Absurd
CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.
The ‘Disappearing’ War Chat
Had the war plans been discussed on a secure government channel a record would have been kept, but Signal offered a way to make it disappear unless someone from outside took screenshots, writes Joe Lauria.
It’s Up to Europe’s Citizens
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak about ending the Ukraine war on Tuesday, European leaders are talking war and only their citizens can stop them, says Edward Lozansky.
Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But Why Not in Gaza?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies on the contradiction of Trump pursuing an end to the war in Ukraine while supporting the genocide in Palestine.
LISTEN: The Imperial Presidency
Scott Harris of WPKN 89.5 FM Radio in Bridgeport, Connecticut, interviewed Consortium News’ Editor Joe Lauria about the U.S. Imperial Presidency and Donald Trump.
WATCH: A History of Expansion
CN Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria joined the Rachel Blevins Show to discuss the incoming Trump regime in the context of a history of U.S. territorial expansion in a world that increasingly opposes it.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
The late U.S. president may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
WATCH: Ritter Lobbies at Capitol to Avert Nuclear War
Scott Ritter joined Medea Benjamin and Code Pink to urgently lobby members on Capitol Hill to do what they could to stop the U.S. from starting a nuclear war.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Gabbard Could Help Change US Foreign Policy
We need someone in the post willing to rein in the neocon intelligence and foreign policy establishments when they urge the president to double down on military action based on phony or incomplete intelligence.