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WATCH: US Calls for Release of Australian Hostage in Iraq

April 11, 2025

The U.S. hostage envoy calls for the release an Australian engineer held hostage by Iraq’s Central Bank to get out of a debt to the hostage’s company. CN Live! talks to his wife & an Australian senator about the case.

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Gaza, Israel, Media, News Analysis, Palestine, Propaganda, United Nations, War Crimes

Israeli TV Network Spikes Story Exposing Oct 7 ‘Hero’

April 11, 2025

After public pressure, the network suppressed a report on a key voice in Israel’s Oct. 7 PR campaign whose lies about Hamas rapes and rescuing 750 hostages were cited by the U.N. and filmmaker Sheryl Sandberg. Wyatt Reed reports.

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Palestinian Armed Struggle & the Law

April 10, 2025

Palestinians know they need moral legitimacy in their methods of resistance, write Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo, which raises the subject of Oct. 7, 2023.

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Commentary, Constitution, Economy, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Congress, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Tariffs & the US Constitution

April 10, 2025

No emergency means there is no lawful basis for Trump’s imposition of the tariffs, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Nor is there any  constitutional basis for the underlying statute.

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Ancient World, Commentary, Europe, Immigration, Income Inequality, Trump Administration, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome

April 10, 2025

In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago.

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In the Remains of the Diocletian Baths

April 9, 2025

Flashback: Michael Brenner envisions a conversation among four pundits of the imperium during the calamitous sack of Rome by Alaric’s Visigoths with a veiled reference to Trump’s America.

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Inside US Detention-Center Brutality

April 9, 2025

An inside look at a Miami detention center where ICE sends immigrants targeted for detention and deportation under the Trump-Vance plan. Mark Dow reports.

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Africa, Analysis, Commentary, Economy, Human Rights

Vijay Prashad: Beyond a World of Debt

April 9, 2025

With the churning of the global order, there might now be an opportunity to create new financial strategies for development.

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Israeli Soldiers Expose War Crimes in Gaza ‘Death Zone’

April 9, 2025

IDF soldiers admit to committing war crimes in Gaza, with one officer revealing they not only kill military-age men, “we’re killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs …[and] pissing on their graves.”

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Analysis, Commentary, Germany, Militarism, Russia, U.S., Ukraine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Patrick Lawrence: The Lost Man of Europe

April 8, 2025

Germany demonstrates the Continent’s abandonment of its honorable social-democratic traditions and its embrace, with the zealotry of the convert, of the neoliberalism of the Anglosphere.

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Caitlin Johnstone: Trump’s Snuff Film on Collateral Murder Anniversary

April 8, 2025

Trump is bombing Yemen to defend Israel’s right to commit genocide.

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Craig Murray: This Hell

April 8, 2025

Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind.

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Argentina, History, Israel, Military, United Kingdon

How Israel Misled UK During Falklands War

April 7, 2025

Declassified files reveal how Tel Aviv deceived Britain about supplying Argentina’s anti-Semitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s, John McEvoy reports.

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WATCH: A Foreign Policy of the Absurd

April 7, 2025

CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.

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Africa, Books, Colonialism, Women

Vijay Prashad: Pan-African Revolutionaries

April 7, 2025

From Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa there is a rich tradition of female writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike.

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Advanced Technologies, Analysis, Australia, Commentary, Free Speech, Press Freedom, Social Media

X Made Me Dark

April 6, 2025

And Grok sheds light on the mysterious suspension from X of Consortium News’ CN Live! Executive Producer Cathy Vogan, as more than 5 million accounts were suspended by X in the first half of 2024.

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American Empire, Analysis, Colonialism, Commentary, Disinformation, History, Human Rights, Indigenous People, Racism

Chris Hedges: Reinforcing the Lies of US History

April 5, 2025

Lust for conquest and wealth — behind the enslavement of Africans and the Native American genocide — is sidelined to tell the story of the valiant struggle by European pioneers to build the greatest nation on earth.

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Commentary, Economy, Income Inequality, Trump Administration, U.S.

Trump Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More

April 4, 2025

Trump’s trade war is a class war designed to weaken progressive taxation, writes Omar Ocampo.

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Britain, Commentary, History, India, Intelligence, Secrecy, United Kingdon

Probing Thatcher’s Role in Golden Temple Massacre

April 4, 2025

Phil Miller reports on efforts to spur the Labour government to investigate British complicity in a massacre of Sikh pilgrims by Indian troops 40 years ago.

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Civil Rights, Commentary, Free Speech, History, Legal, Protest, Trump Administration, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Supreme Courrt, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News

Taking the US Constitution Seriously

April 4, 2025

Everyone should be free to speak their minds and live without fear of masked men grabbing them for deportation to a hell hole in Louisiana or El Salvador, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.

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