Mark Curtis says Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain “giving up sovereignty” of illegally occupied land.
The Chagos Islands Were Never Britain’s to Give Away
Category: Militarism
Droning the Pentagon
An assortment of new firms, born in Silicon Valley or incorporating its disruptive ethos, are beginning to win lucrative military contracts, writes Michael T. Klare.
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Academic Gulag
“Putting dangerous technology in dangerous hands” — MIT PhD students Prahlad Iyengar and Richard Solomon discuss their school’s collaboration with Israel’s extermination campaign and how dissidents are being suppressed.
Killing the Constitution at Gitmo
Andrew P. Napolitano on the George W. Bush-crafted Devil’s Island at Guantanamo Bay and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s pending courtroom plea, which will take place before Biden leaves office.
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.
‘Cop City’ Leads US Buildup in Police-Training Bases
Elizabeth Vos reports on a vast law enforcement training facility in Atlanta that defies the defund-police movement and sets the stage for Israel-linked militarized policing across the U.S.
Can You Handle the Truth?
Consortium News is a publication for adults who are prepared to put away their adolescent notions of America’s exceptional goodness and are instead ready to face the ugly realities of the United States abroad.
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.
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Assad’s Legacy
As the former Syrian president settles into the luxury of exile in Moscow, John Wight says his country is left facing the challenge of a new sectarian disaster.