The cancellation has made it easier for the pope to duck the moral imperative to condemn outright the enabling of genocide in Gaza by “practicing Catholic” Joe Biden.
RAY McGOVERN: Biden Cancels Trip; Pope Off the Hook
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Why Jimmy Carter Pardoned Draft Resisters
Gerry Condon recalls the years of determined resistance and organizing that led the late president to pardon draft resisters.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Says It’s Genocide … in Sudan
While indirectly backing the genocidal atrocities it now denounces in Sudan, the Biden administration pushes through an $8 billion weapons shipment to Israel as a blood-soaked punctuation mark on the U.S. president’s far-too-long political career.
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.
NYT Rejects Quakers’ Ad Calling Gaza a ‘Genocide’
“An outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth” — that’s how an American Friends Service Committee spokesperson responded to the paper’s refusal to run paid digital ads that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Taxpayers Suing US Reps for Funding Genocide
Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally behind and a renewed sense of hope.” writes Marjorie Cohn.
Craig Murray: Twisting the Terrorism Narrative
Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.
CN’s Most Read List of 2024
From Julian Assange, to the deindustrialized north of England, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, here are Consortium News‘ most read articles of 2024.
Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds
The U.S. imperium is effectively spoiling for decisive confrontations with any power that threatens its crumbling primacy.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: US System of Prison Injustice
As we bump up against the end of the Biden administration, here’s a look at this president’s final year in office and his criminal-justice legacy.