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.”
Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation. Iranians are Hô Chi Minh’s grasshoppers taking on a colonial elephant.
Neither of the two previous quagmires was revealed in its calamitous stupidity as swiftly as Trump’s war on Iran, writes Mitchell Zimmerman.
The U.S. president has lost the war he started with Iran — or at the very least he has no chance of winning it — but accepting defeat and repairing the damage of the error is simply beyond his reach.
Live from Berkeley, California at 2 pm PDT, 5 pm EDT Saturday, a memorial service for Michael Parenti, the great historian, social critic, author and lecturer. Speakers include Dennis Kucinich, Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Christian Parenti and Marcie Smith.
Trump’s ICE agents have resurrected the Ace of Spades death cards inserted into the mouths of dead Vietnamese by U.S. troops in Vietnam more than 50 years ago, writes Nick Turse.
In the end, with weary citizens yearning for extinction, empires light their own funeral pyre.
While industrialisation remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.
Greg Grandin provides a short history of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.
Consortium News looked back at the career of Richard Falk, a former U.N. special rapporteur on Palestine, and outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, who joined CN Live! on March 17, 2021.