As America’s new Enemy No. 1, China is now the frontrunner in the “bad guy” sweepstakes, writes Michael Brenner.
COVID-19: China Rises in Ranks of US-Accused Hackers
Advanced Technologies, China, Commentary, Foreign Policy, Media, Propaganda, Russia, Trump Administration, U.S.
Do You Consent to the New Cold War?
This insane situation is only possible because people are sedated by mass media propaganda and endless diversions from reality, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
China, Commentary, Intelligence, International, Propaganda, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US, China & Hong Kong’s Betrayal
The territory’s likely loss of autonomy is a tragedy made worse because it could have been avoided.
Campaign 2016, Campaign 2020, CN Live!, Intelligence, Legal, Media, Politics, Russia, Russiagate, Trump Administration, VIPS, WikiLeaks
CN LIVE! New Episode—‘Russiagate: Who Was Guccifer 2.0?’–Watch the Replay
We were joined by Bill Binney, a former NSA technical director, and ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern, to discuss Consortium News‘ publication Thursday of “Guccifer 2.0’s Hidden Agenda,” as well as the latest Russiagate developments.
China, Commentary, COVID-19, Cuba, Egypt, Foreign Policy, India, Korea Peninsula, Middle East, Military, Palestine, Trump Administration, U.S., Venezuela, Vietnam
COVID-19: A New Appeal Against Preparations for War
In response to the atmosphere of war that the U.S. is creating during the Great Lockdown, Vijay Prashad and Abdallah El Harif are issuing a fresh appeal for peace.
25 YEARS OF CN: Memorial Day—‘Tragic Valor of Marines at Con Thien’—May 29, 2016
On Memorial Day in the U.S. Monday, we look back at an article written by the late Don North, a former ABC Vietnam War correspondent, on a little remembered incident in that war.
COVID-19: How Trustworthy and Humane is Sweden’s Pandemic Strategy?
Sweden’s Covid-19 strategy has been lauded by anti-lockdown activists who favor herd immunity, but a prominent Swedish professor of epidemiology questions just how humane and trustworthy that strategy has been.
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Biden Should Be Named in Criminal Probe in Ukraine, Judge Rules
Former U.S. vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden should be named as an alleged perpetrator in a criminal investigation in Ukraine over the firing of the country’s prosecutor general, a judge has ruled, reports Joe Lauria.
WATCH: Elizabeth Vos on Consortium News
Foreign Policy, Intelligence, International, Iran, Middle East, Military, Trump Administration, Venezuela, VIPS, VIPS Memos
VIPS MEMO: To the President—Avoid Hostilities Over Iranian Fuel Shipment to Venezuela
The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) urges Donald Trump to avoid the slippery slope toward armed conflict as an Iranian oil tanker nears Venezuela on Sunday.
COVID-19: Richest Americans Added $434 Billion in Wealth Since Pandemic Hit
Jake Johnson reports on an analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies.
Biden Can’t Return US to Normal, Because Trump is a Normal President
Wanting America to go back to how it was before Trump is like rewinding the same horror movie, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Consortium News Has Been on the Web Longer Than Salon by 5 Days & NYT, LAT, WSJ and WP By Months, Making it Tied for 10th Longest Active Website Thanks to Our Readers’ Generosity
Thanks to 25 years of generosity from our readers, Consortium News is one of the longest, continuously running websites in history, and arguably the world’s first online news site on the internet.
Guccifer 2.0’s Hidden Agenda
Why would an alleged GRU officer supposedly part of an operation to deflect Russian culpability suggest that Assange “may be connected with Russians?”, asks Tim Leonard.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: UK Minister Who Approved Trump’s Request to Extradite Assange Spoke at Secretive US Conferences with People Calling for Him to be ‘Neutralized’
Britain’s former home secretary attended “starlight chats” and “after-dinner cocktails” in off-the-record conferences involving high-level U.S. military and intelligence figures, report Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard.
COVID-19: FDR’s Polio Crusade & Leadership Amid Crisis
Thomas Doherty offers a reminder of the lesser-known battle that FDR waged, in public and in private.
COVID-19: Trump Lets Big Corporations Get Away with Whatever They Want
During the pandemic, Ralph Nader says the president has allowed a corporate crime epidemic.
Don’t Expect to See Trump’s Tax Returns Before the Election
Even if the Supreme Court were to order Trump to release his tax returns, they would be transmitted confidentially to the grand jury, writes Marjorie Cohn.
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LEE CAMP: Trump Will Win Reelection Unless We Do One Thing
We — the American people — have a right to participate in the last vestiges of this tattered democracy.
COVID-19: China Updates its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’
Chinese General Qiao Liang argues, “If we have to dance with the wolves, we should not dance to the rhythm of the United States,” reports Pepe Escobar.
CN Live! is Going Strong, For Now
CN Live! was launched last July and in less than a year it has made its mark on independent video journalism with 26 episodes and two full-length documentaries challenging mainstream thought.
COVID-19: Global Lawmakers Call on IMF, World Bank to Cancel Debt of Poor Nations
Bernie Sanders said the pandemic shows “that we have got to act as a global community — we truly are all in this together,” Jake Johnson reports.
COVID-19: Hunger Gnaws at the Edges of the World
Agricultural workers, farmers and social movements can teach us how the food system should be reorganized during this crisis, write Vijay Prashad and Richard Pithouse.
RAY McGOVERN: Turn Out the Lights, Russiagate is Over
The possibility that Trump will not chicken out this time, and rather will challenge the Security State looms large since he felt personally under attack.
Commentary, Intelligence, Politics, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Partisanship Aside, Trump Had Reason to Fire Michael Atkinson, Say Two Former CIA Whistleblowers
The inspector general violated the law by protecting the “Ukraine whistleblower” and proved to be the enemy of real whistleblowers, say John Kiriakou and Pedro Israel Orta.
COVID-19: Trump Calls Legally Protected Whistleblowing a ‘Racket’ as Fired Scientist Rips President
Dr. Rick Bright — who was fired from his post at Department of Health and Human Services last month — condemned the White House’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic as fatally slow, disjointed and inadequate, reports Jake Johnson.
COVID-19: Virus Blows Away Myth of ‘First’ & ‘Third’ Worlds
Star performers during the pandemic are not in the historical “First World,” writes Steven Friedman.
Just Like Our Readers, Consortium News is Not Afraid to Challenge the Orthodoxy
Since it was founded by Robert Parry in 1995 Consortium News has been challenging the Washington and Western conventional wisdom for an audience just as bold about daring to think for themselves.
Ghost of J. Edgar Haunts Flynn Investigation
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A Circle in the Darkness: Post-War Europe
Diana Johnstone’s newly-published memoir offers an incisive, gritty, politically alert, and expansive account of post-war Europe, reports Patrick Lawrence in this interview with the author.