The Pentagon and State Dept.-linked outfit, with an ex-N.S.A. and C.I.A. director on its board, is accusing Consortium News of publishing “false content” on Ukraine, reports Joe Lauria.
US State-Affiliated NewsGuard Targets Consortium News
Guarding Democracy from News
As Orwellian as the Disinformation Governance Board may be, it’s not even the most immediate threat to our freedom of speech, writes John Kiriakou.
Caitlin Johnstone: Ukraine ‘Solves’ Nazi Problem With New Logo
The change in insignia isn’t being made to correct a misperception, it’s being made to obscure a correct perception.
Analysis, Assange extradition, Britain, Commentary, Income Inequality, Media, Russiagate, U.S., WikiLeaks
Craig Murray: The Power of Lies
The press has been neither humiliated nor found out because most of the country still believes the lies they were told and have not seen corrected.
Slippery Slope: New U.S. Advanced Weapons for Ukraine
The U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, also known as HIMARS, will give Ukraine the capability to strike Russian targets roughly 50 miles away with powerful, satellite-guided missiles.
Caitlin Johnstone: Official Behind Media Reports of Russian Atrocities Fired By Ukrainian Parliament
Chris Hedges: How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Taiwan Talk
We are witnessing the gradual dismantling of strategic ambiguity in favor of the clarity urged by Trump’s belligerent secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.
WATCH: CN Live! — Assange: Remembering the Embassy
CN Live! is in London and looks back at the seven years that the WikiLeaks publisher was exiled in the Ecuador Embassy, with Fidel Narváez and Emmy Butlin.
SCOTT RITTER: Phase Three in Ukraine
No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins.
LISTEN: CN Editor on Assange, Ukraine & Censorship
CN Editor Joe Lauria joined the radio program By Any Means Necessary to discuss the latest on Julian Assange, censorship and the war in Ukraine.
Analysis, Column, Commentary, France, Gulf States, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Media, Middle East, Propaganda, Saudi Arabia, U.S., United Arab Emirates
THE ANGRY ARAB: Lebanon’s Hung Parliament
Did Hizbullah really receive a devastating blow in the elections? As`ad AbuKhalil says the answer is not as simple as Western coverage makes it seem.
Stella Assange Urges Support for Consortium News
Help Us Defeat the Establishment
We always knew elements of the Establishment didn’t like Consortium News. But now there are moves against us.
Caitlin Johnstone: WaPo’s Glimpse of the Battlefield
Contrary to widespread triumphant Western narratives, this reporting describes Ukrainian troops surviving on one potato per day and deserting their posts.
The New York Times’ Shift on Victory in Ukraine
As the war becomes less popular and it takes its toll, an electoral disaster looms ahead in 2022 and 2024 for Biden and the Democratic Party, for which the Times serves as a mouthpiece, writes John Walsh.
Nuland-Pyatt Video Restored to YouTube
The video, with more than 181,000 views, in which top U.S. officials in 2014 discuss changing the Ukrainian government, had been removed from YouTube after more than 8 years.
And Then There Was No Empire
Biden is to host the Summit of the Americas in June, where he hopes to deepen Washington’s hegemony over the region, writes Vijay Prashad.
G7 Downplays US Sanctions’ Role in Food Shortage
This propaganda does immense damage to the world’s understanding and capability of avoiding a looming global food disaster, writes John Ross.
Advanced Technologies, Civil Rights, Commentary, Constitution, Intelligence, Legal, Surveillance, U.S., Women
