Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.
Chris Hedges: PEN America Uncoils Rope to Get Assange
Chris Hedges: CN’s ‘Courageous & Independent’ Assange Reporting
One of the leading journalists’ of our age expounds on the unique importance of Consortium News.
Jill Stein: CN Is a ‘Lifeline to the Democracy We Need’
“Consortium News is among a handful of media organizations doing real journalism, informing & inspiring us to the task of citizenship in a democracy on life-support. It is a lifeline to the democracy we need, and I urge you to…
JOHN PILGER: ‘What Newspapers Used to Be’
One of the world’s greatest journalists and documentary filmmakers says there is no finer journalism on the net than Consortium News: “Its up-to-the minute news and analysis are superb.”
American Empire, Analysis, Biden Administration, Commentary, Intelligence, Media, Militarism, Obama Administration, U.S., Ukraine
How Not to Explain the Ukraine Crisis
The PBS NewsHour invited on just about the worst person in the U.S. government to help Americans understand the crisis in Ukraine, writes Mike Madden.
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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Those Nasty Russians
Assange Applies For Appeal to UK Supreme Court
The imprisoned publisher must first ask the High Court that his appeal to the Supreme Court be approved as a point of law of general public importance.
2022 — Year of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine
Russia says Europe must think about the real prospect of turning their continent into a field of military confrontation like that which existed at the height of the Cold War, writes Scott Ritter.
Putin Says Ukraine Peace Up to US
Putin told his annual press conference today that the U.S. had “tricked” Russia over NATO expansion and that it had to end, reports Len Bracken.
Assange extradition, Biden Administration, Cold War, Commentary, International, Julian Assange, Racism, Russia, U.S., U.S. Congress, Ukraine, United Nations
US & Ukraine at UN Refuse to Condemn Nazism
The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.
ROBERT PARRY: Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Demand Respect
Thousands of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis surrounded parliament in Kiev demanding the government honor Ukrainian paramilitary forces who fought for Adolf Hitler, another embarrassing reminder of the extremism unleashed by the U.S.-backed coup, Robert Parry wrote on Oct. 15, 2014.
We Do A Lot More Than Our ‘Obsession’ With Assange
The Julian Assange story is not the only one being misreported. So is Russiagate, Ukraine, and the Middle East.
Corporate Donations Poured Into Manchin’s PAC Ahead of Final ‘No’
The same corporations that lobbied against the major social spending bill also donated into Manchin’s political action committee before he blocked its passage.
300 Doctors Implore Australia to Bring Assange Home
Over 300 doctors from around the world have today written to the Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, imploring him to seek Julian Assange’s immediate release from prison in the U.K. on medical grounds.
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American Empire, Commentary, Intelligence, Julian Assange, Media, Militarism, Military Industry, Pentagon, Politics, U.S., U.S. Congress, WikiLeaks
Pentagon’s 20-Year Killing Spree
U.S. government policies have treated civilians as expendable, writes Norman Solomon. Meanwhile truth tellers such as Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Nathan Hale get punished for what they expose.
Supply Chain Disruption Arrives ‘Just in Time’
Kim Moody says cost-cutting methods introduced to the Western auto industry in the 1980s have spread to every type of goods and service production, transport and retail.
New York Times Airstrikes Reporting Ignores Daniel Hale
The influential news organization should give the whistleblower proper credit and call for Biden to immediately pardon him, writes Sam Carliner.
Neoliberal Capitalism, Supply Chains & Inflation
Ending U.S. child care subsidies won’t restock store shelves, writes Sonali Kolhatkar. A fairer, more sustainable global economy might.