Matters have become even more dangerous since Consortium News founder Robert Parry penned this analysis in February 2015, with President Biden threatening President Putin on Tuesday.
If the U.S. wins its appeal, Julian Assange will face prosecution under a severe espionage law with roots in the British Official Secrets Act that is part of a history of repression of press freedom, reports Joe Lauria.
At no point is it permissible to question if these nations might be reacting defensively to western aggressions and discuss the possibility of working toward detente, writes Caity Johnstone.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies say Americans should hope that the CIA director’s recent visit to Moscow helped Washington understand the stakes.
With the arrest of the principal source of the bogus dossier, The New York Times belatedly admits what the dossier was, a fact reported in Consortium News four years ago.
An article in the NYT Magazine tells us how the CIA helped cook the evidence to invade Iraq and why Colin Powell should have resigned rather than go along with it.