From Editor Robert Parry: We want to wrap up our spring fund drive soon, but we’re still not even halfway to our goal of $35,000. So let’s see if we can at least reach the two-thirds mark, raising about $25,000…
Did Money Seal Israeli-Saudi Alliance?
America’s Overuse of the Sanctions Option
Russia Impinges on Israeli ‘Right’ to Bomb Iran
Exclusive: American neocons are in a lather over Russia’s decision to go ahead with the sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. The apparent outrage is that Iran thinks it has a right to protect its citizens from Israel’s right to launch airstrikes into Iran’s…
Saudis Pour Oil on the Mideast Fire
Neocon ‘Chaos Promotion’ in the Mideast
How Washington Adds to Yemen’s Nightmare
The Nasty Blowback from America’s Wars
Neocons, R2Pers and Hypocrisy
Reasons for the Mideast’s Despair
Hyping the Iranian ‘Threat’
Iran hasn’t invaded another country for centuries and is helping the U.S. push back against the Islamic State in Iraq, but Israeli leaders and American neocons want to enlist the West in the Saudi cause of promoting Sunni Islam over…
Spring Fund Drive Coming Up Short
From Editor Robert Parry: At Consortiumnews, we only have a few special fund drives each year. So, it’s important that we meet or come close to meeting our goals. Sadly, that’s not been the case for our spring fund drive.…
Capitol Hill’s Golden Revolving Door
In the age of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision freeing billionaires to buy U.S. elections many politicians know who owns their allegiance in office, but that financial obeisance grows even more when they leave government, as BillMoyers.com’s Michael Winship describes.
Israel’s Unsavory New ‘Allies’
The American people, who still want to stop Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, are only dimly aware that longtime U.S. “allies” Israel and Saudi Arabia have shifted into an effective alliance with those Sunni jihadists as part of their regional war against…
When Journalists Join the Cover-ups
Judith Miller’s Blame-Shifting Memoir
Why America Needs Iran
Obama’s Fateful Indecision
The Iran Deal’s Big Upside
When Occupation Becomes Apartheid
Backers of right-wing Israeli policies bristle when the South African term “apartheid” is applied to the Jewish state’s isolation and persecution of Palestinians. But the near half century of West Bank occupation leaves little doubt the description fits, says Gil Maguire,…