Maybe you would prefer to believe a plucky band of heroic freedom fighters bravely overthrew an evil supervillain dictator all on their own like some Hollywood movie, says Caitlin Johnstone.
Syria Is Absorbed Into the Empire
Category: Media
WATCH: Ritter Lobbies at Capitol to Avert Nuclear War
Scott Ritter joined Medea Benjamin and Code Pink to urgently lobby members on Capitol Hill to do what they could to stop the U.S. from starting a nuclear war.
Caitlin Johnstone: Phony Anti-Establishment Schtick
It’s increasingly necessary to not just stand against the status quo but also against the fraudulent political factions pretending to oppose it.
The War on Consortium News
From PayPal to Global News to anonymous hackers, there are forces that prefer you don’t read Consortium News.
X Suspends CN Live! Producer; Facebook Blocks CN Pieces
The Guardian’s Anti-Semitism
The media constantly deploy an anti-Semitic trope of crucial use to the Western power elite — that on Gaza, it is Israel pulling the strings in Washington, writes Jonathan Cook.
McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
Tell the British State Journalism’s Not a Crime
Des Freedman on why national news outlets are not covering the crackdown on pro-Palestinian journalists in Britain.
Israel & the Evidence Gap
For the small segment of U.S. citizens looking beyond the mainstream media, Lawrence Davidson says the discrepancy between popular perceptions and evidentiary reality is relatively easy to spot.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionists in Amsterdam
What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Western powers blessed it, and Western media determined to hide it from view.