Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.
Craig Murray: Twisting the Terrorism Narrative
Afghanistan, Biden Administration, Commentary, Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Syria, Trump Administration, U.S. State Department, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Chris Hedges: Genocide — The New Normal
This will be a Hobbesian world where nations that have the most advanced industrial weapons make the rules. Those who are poor and vulnerable will kneel in subjugation.
Top 15 CN Live! Webcasts of 2024
BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated With CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod reports on the connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and an Israeli intelligence agency.
American Empire, Analysis, Britain, CN Live!, Commentary, Consortium News, Gaza, Israel, Julian Assange, Lebanon, Legal, Media, Middle East, NATO, Palestine, Press Freedom, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, United Kingdon, WikiLeaks
CN’s Most Read List of 2024
From Julian Assange, to the deindustrialized north of England, the ongoing war in Ukraine and the genocide in Gaza, here are Consortium News‘ most read articles of 2024.
American Empire, China, Commentary, NATO, Syria, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Patrick Lawrence: Our World of Wars, Our War of Worlds
The U.S. imperium is effectively spoiling for decisive confrontations with any power that threatens its crumbling primacy.
Biden Administration, Civil Rights, Column, Commentary, Legal, Prisons, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Justice Dept.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: US System of Prison Injustice
As we bump up against the end of the Biden administration, here’s a look at this president’s final year in office and his criminal-justice legacy.
Acclaimed Australian Journalist Accused of ‘Anti-Semitism’ Awaits Zionist Federation’s Next Move
Mary Kostakidis has tried to end the dispute with the Zionist Federation by issuing a statement on X but it has led to a new round of contentiousness, reports Joe Lauria.
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Donate and Get a Copy of ‘Den of Spies’
Author Craig Unger built off the reporting and archives of Consortium News founder Robert Parry to nail down the October Surprise scandal in his new book available to you for supporting CN.
Biden & Make-Believe Democracy
If a large chunk of the public can be persuaded that a man who is incapable of finding the door is “sharp as a tack,” they can be made to believe a lot of other things too, writes Jonathan Cook.
Afghanistan, Argentina, Cambodia, Commentary, East Timor, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Palestine, Soviet Union, Timor Leste, U.S., Venezuela
Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
The late U.S. president may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
Vijay Prashad: Tears of Our Children
From Palestine to Sudan, imperialist wars are destroying the lives of innocent children, leaving long-term physical and psychological wounds on those who survive.
Office Pool 2025
Andrew P. Napolitano offers 20 multiple-choice predictions concerning the Trump team, the U.S. government, the Supreme Court, popular culture, an array of politicians — and more.
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Chris Hedges Report: Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide
Saima Akhter, Hossam Nasr, Tariq Ra’ouf — formerly of Meta, Microsoft and Apple, respectively — recount their in-house struggles over the genocide, which ultimately led to each of their dismissals.
Russia, Soviet Union, U.S., U.S. State Department, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
An Ignored US Diplomat’s Warning on Russia
In an interview with Natylie Baldwin, E. Wayne Merry reflects on his 1994 State Department telegram concerning Western relations with post-Soviet Russia.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: American-Century Flight
“American history is the history of the counterrevolution” — a discussion with author Joel Whitney about his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run.
Caitlin Johnstone: Empire & Homelessness
The U.S. empire is up to its elbows manipulating events in the Middle East while homelessness among its own citizens has taken another record-shattering leap.
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John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful
John Pilger died a year ago on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his job as a reporter, writes Joe Lauria.
Analysis, Column, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, Palestine, Qatar, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, U.S., United Arab Emirates
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Six Scenarios for Syria
The situation of Syria is like the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors (local and external) operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen.