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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.
CN’s Most Read List of 2024
From Julian Assange, to the deindustrialized north of England, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, here are Consortium News‘ most read articles of 2024.
John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful
John Pilger died a year ago on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his job as a reporter, writes Joe Lauria.
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Six Scenarios for Syria
The situation of Syria is like the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors (local and external) operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen.
Putin Thinks Al-Qaeda in Syria Is Reformed Too
The Russian president has said Russia actually won in Syria because the jihadist threat is apparently ended, which was Moscow’s goal all along. But he ignored what he’d previously said was the West’s role in that conflict, writes Joe Lauria.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria
Decades after deploying mass violence and rendering citizens grotesquely ignorant of the world, U.S.-led powers appear willing to risk world war, while reinventing a terrorist to lead what was a secular nation until last week.
LISTEN: The Two Puppets
There are parallels between their roles in Syria and Ukraine. But can Abu Mohammad Jolani be as easily controlled by the U.S., Israel and Turkey (who may have conflicting interests) as Volodymyr Zelensky?
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Craig Murray: The End of Pluralism in the Middle East
What this potentially amounts to is the end of pluralism in the Levant and its replacement by supremacism: An ethno-supremacist Greater Israel and a religio-supremacist Salafist Greater Syria.