The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Phantom Leftwing Enemies
Category: Free Press
Chris Hedges: PEN America Sells Out — Again
PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and U.S. empire.
Hedges Report: Weaponizing ‘Civil Death’ to Crush Dissent
Hüseyin Dogru, a German citizen who founded Red. Media, discusses the sanctions the E.U. has imposed on him, what his case means for journalism and the precedent it sets in the West’s repression of anti-imperialist speech.
Britain Detains US Human Rights Lawyer
Britain continues on its authoritarian road by targeting pro-Palestine journalists, activists, academics, doctors, musicians, former MPs and lawyers, seizing property and using “the process as punishment.”
Inside ‘Labour Together’s’ Campaign Against Jeremy Corbyn
Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer’s former chief of staff to combat the British left.
WATCH: ‘The Conscience’ of the SBS TV Network
Mary Kostakidis was known as “the face” of Australia’s SBS evening news. A former head of SBS TV told CN’s award ceremony that Kostakidis was the “conscience” of SBS, for among things, wanting to tell the Palestinians’ story.
Mary Kostakidis Wins CN’s Gary Webb Award
The prominent Australian journalist, in court accused of racial hatred for her reporting critical of Israel’s genocide, has won Consortium News’ 2026 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award, which she was given at a ceremony in Sydney on Sunday.
Who Is the Aggressor? Turning Obstacles into Threats
Obstacles to the aggressors’ expansion and occupation in the Middle East are Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Shia militia in Iraq. They are presented as “threats” rather than defenders of their dignity, sovereignty and land.
Pilger Scholarship Established at University in Melbourne
The scholarship will be awarded to “the student of journalism who has demonstrated an understanding of journalism as a humane profession independent of all vested interests to serve the public, not media proprietors.”
Starmer’s ‘Incredible’ Rise to Power
The system is rigged, writes Jonathan Cook. Everything about Starmer’s rise to power – and the media’s permanent incuriosity about how that rise was engineered – is incredible.