Flashback: Michael Brenner envisions a conversation among four pundits of the imperium during the calamitous sack of Rome by Alaric’s Visigoths.
An inside look at a Miami detention center where ICE sends immigrants targeted for detention and deportation under the Trump-Vance plan. Mark Dow reports.
With the churning of the global order, there might now be an opportunity to create new financial strategies for development.
IDF soldiers admit to committing war crimes in Gaza, with one officer revealing they not only kill military-age men, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs …[and] pissing on their graves.”
Germany demonstrates the Continent’s abandonment of its honorable social-democratic traditions and its embrace, with the zealotry of the convert, of the neoliberalism of the Anglosphere.
Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind.
Declassified files reveal how Tel Aviv deceived Britain about supplying Argentina’s anti-Semitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s, John McEvoy reports.
CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.
From Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa there is a rich tradition of female writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike.
And Grok sheds light on the mysterious suspension from X of Consortium News’ CN Live! Executive Producer Cathy Vogan, as more than 5 million accounts were suspended by X in the first half of 2024.
Lust for conquest and wealth — behind the enslavement of Africans and the Native American genocide — is sidelined to tell the story of the valiant struggle by European pioneers to build the greatest nation on earth.
Trump’s trade war is a class war designed to weaken progressive taxation, writes Omar Ocampo.
Phil Miller reports on efforts to spur the Labour government to investigate British complicity in a massacre of Sikh pilgrims by Indian troops 40 years ago.
Everyone should be free to speak their minds and live without fear of masked men grabbing them for deportation to a hell hole in Louisiana or El Salvador, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
A legally-acceptable peacekeeping force can only be set up through the auspices of the United Nations Security Council and that would mean both sides of the war agreeing, writes Joe Lauria.
On his visit to Hungary Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu was protected from the ICC’s arrest warrant as Hungary said it was withdrawing from the court.
The rest of the world isn’t ripping off the U.S. The American trade deficit is the result of chronically large budget deficits resulting from tax cuts for the rich combined with trillions of dollars wasted on useless wars.
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.
For the latest examples, look at where two of the most disastrous foreign policy officials from the Biden administration just landed, write Edward Ahmed Mitchell and Ismail Allison.
