If the war machine is alone responsible for placing checks on its nuclear brinkmanship, then there are no real checks on the nuclear brinkmanship of the war machine.
Timothy A. Wise says the dispute over GM corn in Mexico may test the extent to which a trade agreement can be used against a country’s public health and environmental efforts.
UPDATED: Recollections of significant interactions with one of America’s most courageous men.
A new World Bank report says hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies to energy producers need to be used instead to “ensure a green and just transition.”
From Bolivia to Sri Lanka, countries fed up with the IMF-driven debt-austerity cycle and bullying by the U.S.-led bloc are beginning to assert their own agendas, writes Vijay Prashad.
Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted, reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime.
The High Court judge who rejected Julian Assange’s appeal to stop his extradition to the U.S., is the U.K. government’s former top lawyer, reports Mark Curtis.
Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified, Jennifer Berry Hawes reports.
One of America’s most courageous men, who took on the most powerful government in the world to expose its lies about the Vietnam war, has died at 92.
The ruling restores an understanding that workplace grievances are by nature hot-button disputes where the normal job rules of civility and respect cannot be applied, writes Robert M. Schwartz.
Trust in establishment media is at an all-time low as independent media, like Consortium News, the oldest, is more crucial than ever. Why? Because it’s the people’s media, supported by the people.
Brian Becker interviews CN Editor Joe Lauria about the latest developments in the Julian Assange case.
Julian Assange’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state, writes Craig Murray.
The role of the former senior U.S. foreign policy adviser — who just turned 100 — has been overstated in the Arab world. But that is not to exonerate his crimes.
Countries in the Global South are taking disproportionate responsibility for resettling the record numbers of displaced people, finds the U.N. refugee agency’s annual report.
With Abbas’ state visit to China this week, M.K. Bhadrakumar says Beijing’s mediation on the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement lends credibility to a Chinese initiative on the Palestine issue.
Forty eight ceasefires between 1946 and 1997 — while often ignored — offer guidance on how to end the killing. Since history shows it takes a long time to end a war, Ann Wright says the process must start now.…
The potentially far-reaching case is based on the state constitution, which enshrines the right to a clean and healthful environment, writes Marjorie Cohn.
An editor at Radio New Zealand has been suspended and is under investigation for the time-honored practices of providing balanced and factual reporting, writes Tony Kevin.
Israel uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology they then export around the world to despots and democracies, says journalist Antony Lowenstein.