The run on the coronavirus vaccine is also about power and image. Dispatches from Argentina, Kenya and Serbia.
Who Gets it First?
Australia, China, Commentary, COVID-19, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, International News Analysis, Militarism
Australia Sabotaged Its Own Interests in China Relations
The destruction over the past five years of Australia’s mutually beneficial diplomatic and trade relationship with China was probably a successful “Five Eyes” information warfare operation, writes Tony Kevin.
American Empire, Books, Censorship, Commentary, History, Propaganda, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Democracy is Not a Fact, But an Enduring Struggle
Trump has been defeated, but Ursula Wolfe-Rocca warns that his commitment to institutionalize the teaching of American exceptionalism has not.
Afghanistan, American Empire, Commentary, Election 2020, Foreign Policy, Iran, Labor, Middle East, Militarism, Obama Administration, U.S.
Biden’s Young Hawk: The Case Against Jake Sullivan
Either the national security adviser-designate and other “exceptionalists” are true believers, or rank cynics driven by ambition and enough intelligence or charisma to say what’s needed to justify U.S. aggression, says Danny Sjursen.
American Empire, Commentary, International News Analysis, Middle East, Militarism, Propaganda, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Barack Obama & the Death of Idealism
The former president’s deception and warmongering killed the “hope and change” he promised on the campaign trail, writes James Bovard.
This CN Live! Documentary May Have Been Illegal Under Proposed Law
In March CN Live! was in Paris to film a documentary on the Yellow Vests movement that included footage of French police that under a proposed law, now being rewritten, could have incurred a €45,000 fine.
WATCH: Assange–The Right to a Fair Trial?
POSTPONED: Andy Worthington & Thomas Durkin, witnesses at Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, to discus his right to a fair trial in a CN Live! simulcast of a Don’t Extradite Assange production, which has been postponed.
American Empire, Foreign Policy, International News Analysis, Iran, Israel, Media, Nuclear Weapons, Propaganda, Secrecy, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
How Israel Deployed an Intelligence Deception to Justify Killing Scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
The Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics, Gareth Porter reports.
American Empire, Commentary, Election 2020, Foreign Policy, Iran, News Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Trump Administration, U.S.
Trump’s Dangerous Support for Israel’s Killing of Iranian Scientist
The current U.S. administration is taking actions — including aiding and abetting murder — to prevent Biden’s incoming team from pursuing diplomacy with Iran, writes Marjorie Cohn.
India’s One-Day General Strike Largest in History
If those who struck on Nov. 26 formed a country, it would be the fifth largest in the world after China, India, the United States and Indonesia, writes Vijay Prashad.
LETTER FROM INDIA: ‘Love Jihad’: India Is Further Dividing Hindus & Muslims
A new law in Uttar Pradesh adds to the attack on the country’s core values of secularism and pluralism, Betwa Sharma reports.
Thinktanklandia: A Washington Echo Chamber for a New Cold War
Cassandra Stimpson and Holly Zhang report on the world of constant military-buildup promotion led by those who would gain most from it.
Militarism & the Populist Playbook
Craig Murray says atavism and racism are the easiest way to political success, despite the demonstrably catastrophic consequences.
Commentary, History, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Media, Middle East, Middle East, Palestine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Robert Fisk: Courage in Covering Israel
As As’ad AbuKhalil pointed out in a piece earlier today, Fisk showed courage in his critical coverage of Israel, a taboo for Western reporters. James North reflects here on that coverage.
Nonviolent Guerrilla Cartographers
During the Sudanese uprising, Khartoum became a carefully re-mapped city where only the revolutionaries knew its paths, writes Amar Jamal.
WATCH: UN Secretary General on ‘The State of the Planet’
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers an address on “The State of the Planet” at Columbia University in New York.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Robert Fisk & the Decline of Western Reporting on the Middle East
Just because Fisk was brave against Israel and opposed Western intervention in the Middle East, it should not stop us from pointing out his incompetence, especially on things Lebanese, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
Consortium News Launches Winter Fund Drive
Please make a year-end, tax deductible donation to the first independent news site on the Web, to help us continue our coverage of Assange, Biden, the pandemic and more in our 25th year.
American Empire, Column, Commentary, Election 2020, Foreign Policy, Intelligence, International News Analysis, Iran, Israel, Media, Middle East, Mike Pompeo, Militarism, Saudi Arabia, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Assassins & Iran
Any thought of Biden and his people riding into town on white horses to save the nuclear deal is strictly naïve.
WATCH: ‘A Secret Australia: Revealed By WikiLeaks Exposés’
Watch the book launch of A Secret Australia: Revealed By WikiLeaks Exposés, essays written by 18 prominent Australians.