Wealthy Latin American regime-change hitmen exploited immigrant rights, international food and a pliant media to rebrand themselves as social justice heroes, Alex Rubinstein reports.
Vijay Prashad reflects on neoliberal orthodoxy, the latest meeting of tired decision makers in Davos and a hybrid war in Latin America that is creating the conditions for chaos.
Leonardo Flores reports on a farcical scene that was just the latest chapter in an absurdly bungled coup attempt.
A monumentally destructive U.S. decade — symptomatic of imperial decline — exposed a shamefully pliant press. But we have at least one reason to resist incurable pessimism.
In 2020, Consortium News celebrates 25 years of journalism, considered the first independent online news site. Our founder, Robert Parry, wrote this short history of the site in 2011, explaining the principles that still guide us.
Land in Colombia has been militarized to secure the profits of the elite, writes Vijay Prashad.
To read the mainstream press on what just happened to Evo Morales is to enter a hall of mirrors.
The tactics used to fight against decolonization are what we call a “hybrid war,” writes Vijay Prashad. As the generals do the dirty work, the aims of international capital are eventually met.
Luis Fernando Camacho arose from far-right movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the U.S. has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil and the Venezuela coup regime, report Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton.
As usual, the mass media’s reporting on this story is in full alignment with the U.S. State Department, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
