Mary Kostakidis was known as “the face” of Australia’s SBS evening news. A former head of SBS TV told CN’s award ceremony that Kostakidis was the “conscience” of SBS, for among things, wanting to tell the Palestinians’ story.
The prominent Australian journalist, in court accused of racial hatred for her reporting critical of Israel’s genocide, has won Consortium News’ 2026 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award, which she was given at a ceremony in Sydney on Sunday.
The DNC’s decision to scrap the autopsy on the 2024 defeat to Donald Trump is a political gift to the former vice president as she gears up for 2028, writes Norman Solomon.
From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Keir Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted.
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the U.S. or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other.
Iranians and Saudis see historic opportunity from the war to remake the region. Iran wants the U.S. and Gulf monarchies out, while Saudis want control. Israel has its own ideas, writes Joe Lauria.
The WikiLeaks founder filed a criminal complaint arguing the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to pro-war Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela violates Swedish law, reports Joe Lauria.
A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power.
Project Censored marked its 50th anniversary Friday night in Washington with Ryan Grim, John Kiriakou, Lauren Harper, Joe Lauria, Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff.