On May Day, Americans were more aware of the plight of workers than at any time in decades, argues Peter Dreier.
UPDATED: The Morrison government will fall reluctantly into line with Beijing, says Tony Kevin, because China is where Australia’s bread is buttered.
With more than one million cases and 60,000 dead, the U.S. is the world’s Covid-19 epicenter with an economic, political & health care system unsuited for the unfolding disaster.
Consortium News this year is celebrating its 25th Anniversary as the first independent news site on the internet.
Nobody wants a traumatic experience turned into a weapon used to bludgeon them before jeering crowds, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Declassified British files show that Harold Wilson’s government secretly armed and backed Nigeria’s aggression against the secessionist region, Mark Curtis reports.
Pepe Escobar surveys a range of thinkers on the pandemic.
Michael T. Klare says a vast restructuring of the global energy enterprise is happening now.
Melanie Bateman says the crisis presents an opportunity for farmers to adjust their pest management practices.
During the outbreak, the diarist was very concerned with his frame of mind; he constantly mentioned that he was trying to be in good spirits, writes Ute Lotz-Heumann.
As`ad AbuKhalil reviews Fadi Bardawil’s new book, “Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation.”
Some in Europe are already calling for Hungary’s expulsion if Budapest doesn’t meet the EU’s membership requirements, writes Giorgio Cafiero.
Prison wardens and the federal Bureau of Prisons almost never use their compassionate release authorities, even though Congress recently made it easier for them to do so.
The bureau’s file on Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, was released last month, Joe Lauria reports.
Critics said the new data, coming in the middle of the pandemic, highlighted the need to prioritize real human needs, Jessica Corbett reports.
Watch, read, and listen as Washington and its media clerks manufacture our consent for a full-dress Cold War with China.
The judge will decide on May 4 whether to resume Assange’s hearing in July or as late as November, when the first court dates are open.
The U.S. is trying to extradite Julian Assange to stand trial for espionage, but even though sedition is no longer on the books, that’s what the U.S. is really charging him with, says Joe Lauria.
Kevin Gosztola reports on U.S. congressional legislation that would protect members of the press who solicit, obtain or publish government secrets.
