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Asia, Australia, East Timor, Indonesia, Intelligence, Media, Propaganda, United Kingdon

Revealed: Australia’s Secret Propaganda Unit

June 18, 2022

Britain assisted Australia in setting up a team modeled on the U.K.’s notorious Information Research Department to run influence operations in the Asia-Pacific in the 1970s, John McEvoy and Peter Cronau report.

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Assange extradition, Britain, U.S., WikiLeaks

Stella Assange: ‘We Are Going to Fight This’

June 17, 2022

“We are going to use every appeal avenue,” Stella Assange told a London press conference on Friday after the home secretary signed the extradition order, reports Joe Lauria.

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Assange extradition, Britain, Legal, WikiLeaks

Home Secretary Signs Assange Extradition Order

June 17, 2022

The imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher can now appeal her decision to the High Court, as well as the points of law he lost when the magistrate’s court initially blocked the extradition. 

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American Empire, Analysis, Commentary

WATCH: ‘Are We Ruled by Idiots?’

June 16, 2022

That’s what George Galloway asked CN Editor Joe Lauria on the Mother of All Talk Shows. His response examines the need for a change in imperial thinking.

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, Pentagon, Russia, Ukraine

Last Tango in Washington?

June 16, 2022

Michael Brenner sizes up the scale of the West’s blunder in trying to use a crisis in Ukraine as the lever to bring down Putin and Russia along with him. 

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Politics, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

The US Left & War in Ukraine

June 16, 2022

Lawrence Davidson says Matthew Duss, Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy adviser, denies his own country’s role in bringing about Russia’s war in Ukraine.   

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American Empire, Commentary, Iran, Israel, Militarism, Propaganda, Russia, U.S., Ukraine

The Hierarchy of Tribalisms

June 15, 2022

Westerners should forget about liberating Ukraine, writes Jonathan Cook. First we need to liberate our own minds so we can acknowledge our threatening presence in the world.

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Final Hours to Donate to Spring Fund Drive

June 15, 2022

Thank you to all who have generously donated so far to our Spring drive.

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US Supreme Court Tacitly Approves Execution of Innocent People

June 15, 2022

Marjorie Cohn discusses the ramifications of a Supreme Court decision that flies in the face of recent precedents protecting the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

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Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Human Rights, Torture, U.S., WikiLeaks

JOHN KIRIAKOU: A Whistleblower’s Agony

June 15, 2022

Denying Joshua Schulte bail because of a fear that he might reveal classified information is one thing. Subjecting him to torture is another. 

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American Empire, Biden Administration, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cold War, Column, Commentary, Cuba

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Summit of No-Shows

June 14, 2022

This could prove an historic shift, reversing more than a century of usually coercive influence in Latin America.

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Analysis, Climate Change, Environment, International, Russia, Ukraine

Study Finds Fossil Fuel Gold Rush After War in Ukraine

June 14, 2022

Researchers warn that if governments’ current plans materialize, they will either end up as massive stranded assets or will lock the world into irreversible warming.

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Send Nina Jankowicz a Message: Donate to the ‘Useful Idiots’

June 14, 2022

The former head of the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board thinks Consortium News is a bunch of “useful idiots.” Show her what you think of this 27-year old, independent news site.

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Column, Commentary, Europe, Militarism, Russia, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

SCOTT RITTER: Turkey Rains on NATO’s Parade

June 13, 2022

In opposing the application of Finland and Sweden, Erdogan has disrupted the military alliance’s effort to further provoke Russia with even more expansion.  

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Nazism, Politics, Protests, Right Wing, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Congress

Chris Hedges: Society of Spectacle

June 13, 2022

The televised Jan. 6 hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. They are a desperate ploy by a doomed political class.

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Assange extradition, Britain, CN Live!, Julian Assange, Legal, WikiLeaks

WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Doctors’ Orders: Don’t Extradite Assange’

June 13, 2022

Jill Stein, Bill Hogan, Sue Wareham & Mary Kostakidis join CN Live! tonight 7pm EDT on Doctors for Assange’s letter telling Priti Patel it is medically and ethically “unacceptable” to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S.

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Land in South Africa & Those Who Work It

June 13, 2022

The process of colonialism dispossessed African farmers and converted them into either landless workers, unpaid labor tenants or the rural unemployed, writes Vijay Prashad.

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Assange extradition, Australia, Britain, International, Julian Assange, Legal, WikiLeaks

Doctors’ Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’

June 12, 2022

More than 300 Doctors For Assange have written to Home Secretary Priti Patel to not make the U.K. “complicit in the slow-motion execution” of Julian Assange.

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Censorship, Commentary, Intelligence, Propaganda, The Bush-43 Administration, U.S., United Kingdon

Caitlin Johnstone: Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information for Western Intelligence

June 9, 2022

The best propaganda is generally a mixture of truth with half-truth, distortion, lies by omission and the removal of context and perspective. 

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Climate Change, Commentary, Environment

Global Warming After Emissions End

June 9, 2022

Climate scientist Julien Emile-Geay discusses the implications of “committed warming.”

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Income Inequality, Labor

US Taxpayers Spent Billions Inflating CEO Pay

June 9, 2022

Sarah Anderson says Biden has the power to crack down on executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal contractors.

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Analysis, Britain, Commentary, Consortiumnews.com, Intelligence, Media, Russia, Ukraine

The Plot Against GrayZone & Suspicions About Consortium News

June 9, 2022

The GrayZone has revealed leaked emails that show the British government’s involvement with private actors plotting to take down GrayZone and asking who is behind Consortium News, writes Joe Lauria.

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, Pentagon, Russia, Turkey, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon

Craig Murray: US Prolongs Ukraine War

June 8, 2022

With no hope of a ceasefire soon, Turkey has turned to the more limited goal of ensuring that grain supplies can be shipped out from the Black Sea through the Bosphorus.

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Biden Administration, Commentary, Militarism, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon

Faced With Donbass Defeat, US & UK Up the Ante in Ukraine

June 8, 2022

As Russia presses victory in the Donbass, U.S. and U.K. missiles threaten a new stage in the conflict, writes Christopher Nineham.

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Censorship, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Environment, United Kingdon

Sweeping Threat to Free Speech in UK

June 8, 2022

Journalists and civil-society staffers could be sentenced to life imprisonment for offences committed under a bill championed by Home Secretary Prit Patel, Richard Norton-Taylor reports. 

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Censorship, Commentary, Joe Lauria

NewsGuard’s Scarlet Letter

June 8, 2022

The spirit if not the letter of the First Amendment prohibits both sophisticated and simple-minded violations of free speech, writes Bruce Fein.

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Censorship, China, Commentary, Joe Lauria, Propaganda, Russia, Soviet Union, U.S., Ukraine

Caitlin Johnstone: Silicon Valley Taking Control of History

June 7, 2022

The idea that government-tied corporations should act as arbiters of history and accuracy is steadily gaining acceptance in the echo chamber of mainstream public opinion.

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Analysis, Column, Intelligence, News Analysis, Politics, Russiagate

John Kiriakou: The Setback in Russiagate Probe

June 7, 2022

The jury foreperson said politics wasn’t a factor.  But was any prosecution of a senior Clinton campaign official possible in a jurisdiction where Clinton beat  Trump 91-4?

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Commentary, Gun Violence, Guns, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Chris Hedges: America’s Gun Fetish

June 7, 2022

There will be no gun control, not only because of the gun lobby and a corrupt political class, but because for many white Americans the idea of the gun is the only power they have left.

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Commentary, Militarism, Saudi Arabia, U.S.

Caitlin Johnstone: Teaching MbS Manners

June 6, 2022

When the U.S. wants to reform certain murderous foreign leaders it can simply provide them with private seminars, according to an addled imperialist think tanker quoted by Politico. 

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Media, Spring Fund Drive

Help Us Withstand Moves to Weaken Us

June 6, 2022

Consortium News is in the crosshairs of Establishment actors questioning our 27 years of fiercely independent journalism. You can help us overcome it. 

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Afghanistan, American Empire, Commentary, Militarism, Military, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News, Vietnam

Destroying the Town Does Not Save It

June 5, 2022

In an imaginary graduation speech to the U.S. Air Force Academy, graduate William J. Astore introduces cadets to the real history of U.S. air power. 

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