Vik Sohonie reflects on citizenship apartheid and the case of the American “digital nomad” deported from Bali.
A Black Traveler Carrying a ‘White’ Passport
Suspicion of Chinese-Born Researchers Threatens US Innovation
Caroline Wagner responds to the arrest of MIT engineering professor Gang Chen earlier this month.
Biden Executive Order Ends DOJ Private Prison Contracts
Joe Biden’s order directs the office of the attorney general to “not renew Department of Justice contracts with privately operated criminal detention facilities.”
Three Years Ago Today…
On this day in 2018 Consortium News lost its founder and editor Robert Parry, who succumbed to cancer at 68. We look back on his life in this video of his memorial service held on April 14, 2018.
American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, Syria, Trump Administration, U.S., Uncategorized
What Biden Wars Will Actually Look Like
Once you get beyond the partisan puppet show, Caitlin Johnstone says you see a single oligarchic empire continuing the same murderous agenda.
More US Lawmakers Urged to Speak Out Against ‘Vaccine Apartheid’ for Palestinians
The progressive Jewish organization IfNotNow questions why more Democrats aren’t decrying Israel’s exclusion of millions of people in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
A Test Case for Biden’s Commitment to Diplomacy
Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold say that Biden should pick one of the nation’s foremost experts on the Middle East to be his Iran envoy.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden is Already Breaking Promises
Tony Blinken will be secretary of state with the élan and faux sophistication the nakedly bankrupt foreign policy requires if the U.S. pantomime is to be sustained another four years.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Machinations in the Gulf
Trump was too busy nursing his grudge to bother with overseas matters, but both his son-in-law and secretary of state rushed through a package of foreign policy initiatives and policies, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
WATCH: ‘WikiLeaks on Trial’ Theater Piece Live!
CN Live! simulcasted a production by Hot Potato of ‘WikiLeaks on Trial’ where the public formed the jury.
The Political Immortality of Billionaires
The heirs of Sheldon Adelson may poison our democracy for decades to come, warns Sam Pizzigati.
Counter Trumpism By Ending the Conditions That Created It
People actually interested in ending Trumpism would be promoting an end to the corruption, opacity, a uniquely awful electoral system, and to neoliberal policies making Americans poorer and poorer, writes Caity Johnstone.
American Empire, Books, Censorship, Commentary, Cuba, History, Human Rights, International, Media, Militarism, Politics, Vietnam
WATCH: Hedges & Chomsky on the State of the Empire
On his program On Contact, Chris Hedges speaks to Noam Chomsky on terrorism, militarism, media & the state of America’s empire, at home and abroad.
The Making of US Empire at the Beginning of its End
Russiagate Ain’t Over
Even in victory the Democrats are rearing the ugly head of Russiagate to further vanquish the vanquished and protect their power, writes Joe Lauria.
The Future of War in Biden’s America
After Fast Start, Biden Urged to Go Further on Climate
Among its Day-One measures, the new administration revoked the presidential permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline and put a temporary moratorium on all fossil fuel activities in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
LEE CAMP: What Biden Can Do Without Congress (But Won’t)
The new president could take executive action on many of the largest problems within the United States, right away, on his own.
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Commentary, COVID-19, Economy, Environment, Foreign Policy, Immigration, International, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Somalia, Yemen
10 Worst Things Trump Did & 5 Things He Didn’t Do
Donald Trump has left the White House. We look back at his tumultuous four years in the Oval Office, judging the worst, and not so worst, things he did, and some things he didn’t do.
Pompeo Escapes Without a Scratch
The State Department was meant to be a counterpart to the U.S. War Department, writes Caitlin Johnstone. Instead it wound up as a cheering squad for starvation sanctions, proxy wars and war coalitions.