This is Kabir’s America. It is our America. And our shame.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Galveston’s BioLab Amid Global Warming’ — Oct. 2, 2017
As the U.S. hurricane season begins in the midst of a pandemic, we republish this article about a Bio-Safety Level 4 lab built on sand and seashells in a major storm zone while containing the world’s most dangerous microbes.
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OPINION: Bellicose anti-China and anti-Russian Rhetoric is Meant for Us, Not Them
As in the dystopian novel 1984, Western propaganda that seems aimed at Moscow and Beijing is really intended for the citizens of the so-called Free World, writes retired Australian diplomat Tony Kevin.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Hold the Halos
There is one big reason I’m not attending the National Whistleblower Center’s annual gathering this year
How a Police Spy’s Stunning Testimony Threatens the Official Buenos Aires Bombing Story
Revelations by a former police spy upend the official story blaming Iran for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and suggest a cover-up, reports Gareth Porter.
Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy
A rant by Mike Pompeo regarding what the U.S. should do with China led to a fruitful exchange between an old China, and an old Soviet hand, writes Ray McGovern.
The Narrative Is Crumbling
Caitlin Johnstone asks how far humanity’s relationship with propaganda can be stretched before it snaps and forces a completely new way of being.
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Killing Democracy in America
As the leading purveyor of violence and terror, the U.S. inevitably becomes its own opponent, writes William J. Astore.
EU Reluctantly Aids Southern Europe—With Strings Attached
During the pandemic it has been every EU nation for themselves until this very late and reluctant deal from the rich North, writes Diana Johnstone.
WATCH: The Tolpuddle ‘Martyrs’ & Julian Assange
Through the lenses of economics, politics, law and history, an examination of the case of Julian Assange and lessons learned from the Tolpuddle ‘martyrs’.
UFO Hype Is Probably Just the US Military Lying Again
The U.S. military has for years been using mass media to inflame public interest in alleged UFOs, and it’s entirely possible it is a domestic ploy to get more Space Force funding, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
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25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Iraq & the Nuremberg Precedent’ — March 16, 2006
This is the 11th story in our series looking back on a quarter century of journalism by Consortium News.
COVID-19: Time to Cancel Foreign Debt is Overdue
In the face of “three pandemics” — coronavirus, unemployment and famine — Vijay Prashad says meager debt-suspension programs are not enough.
37 Senate Dems Join GOP to Approve $740 Billion War Budget
Progressives reacted with disgust at the misplaced priorities made evident by the Senate’s approval of the Pentagon budget and the GOP’s proposal on Covid-19 relief.
Israel Demolishes Covid-19 Clinic in Epicenter of West Bank Outbreak
“There is no humanity in destroying grassroots attempts to support an already deprived health system suffocated by occupation.”
What Will Lula Do?
Pepe Escobar says revelations of major money laundering in Brazil give the former president an opening to go for broke.
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THE ANGRY ARAB: War & Peace in the Middle East
The pandemic hasn’t spread a ceasefire, but prospects of a major regional war during Coronavirus appear slim, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
Biden’s Vision for Venezuela Indistinguishable from Trump’s
Influential DC-Based Ukrainian Think Tank Hosts Neo-Nazi Activist Convicted for Racist Violence
Diana Vynohradova’s webinar appearance shows the mainstreaming of neo-Nazism in Ukrainian politics and the tolerance for pro-NATO fascists in Washington, Moss Robeson reports.
CIA ‘Obsessed’ With Former UK Envoy Who Will Testify in Spying-on-Assange Case
Craig Murray says he’s been asked to testify in the case of illegal spying against Julian Assange.