A monopolistic Silicon Valley mega-corporation deleting political speech about an important historical figure because Washington says he was a terrorist is a notably brazen act of censorship.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Obedient Censors at Meta
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The Propaganda Engulfing Jamal Khashoggi
As’ad AbuKhalil writes this “friend” of Western journalists was close to the ruthless regime, even to the commander of his own eventual assassination squad. He’ll be remembered as the servant of Saudi princes and an early champion of bin Laden.
New Year’s Eve 2017: Bob Parry’s Last Article–A Manifesto on the State of Journalism
On New Year’s Eve 2017, less than a month before he would die, CN founder Bob Parry wrote his last article, a manifesto on the remit of journalism and its threatened demise, a chilling forecast of what was to come.
Caitlin Johnstone: Reading Both Sides
People who leap to embrace pro-Western arguments against imperial-targeted governments rarely consider anything that opposes the TV news.
Throwing a Shoe at the Illegal US War on Iraq
Vijay Prashad explains why a group of international media organizations reject and denounce the U.S. government’s attack on Julian Assange and journalism.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin Speaks
As the Russian president’s year-end presser helped underscore, Europe will increasingly understand itself as the western end of Eurasia rather than the eastern shore of the Atlantic.
Chris Hedges: CN’s ‘Courageous & Independent’ Assange Reporting
One of the leading journalists’ of our age expounds on the unique importance of Consortium News.
Jill Stein: CN Is a ‘Lifeline to the Democracy We Need’
“Consortium News is among a handful of media organizations doing real journalism, informing & inspiring us to the task of citizenship in a democracy on life-support. It is a lifeline to the democracy we need, and I urge you to…
JOHN PILGER: ‘What Newspapers Used to Be’
One of the world’s greatest journalists and documentary filmmakers says there is no finer journalism on the net than Consortium News: “Its up-to-the minute news and analysis are superb.”
How Not to Explain the Ukraine Crisis
The PBS NewsHour invited on just about the worst person in the U.S. government to help Americans understand the crisis in Ukraine, writes Mike Madden.