Much of the political establishment continues to treat Trump’s rise as though it emerged from nowhere, when in reality it was built upon decades of accumulated economic betrayal, writes political scientist Marie Gottschalk.
The founder of Consortium News in 2015 foresaw Benjamin Netanyahu, despite leveling false charges of antisemitism, turning Americans against Israel by going too far with the Palestinians and Iran.
Binary thinking in the argument over whether the U.S. or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The truth is the dog and the tail are wagging each other.
Consortium News founder Robert Parry wrote this short history of the site in 2011, explaining the principles that still guide CN after 30 years of continuous publication.
Dick Cheney died the day before Zohran Mamdani was elected NYC mayor. His funeral was the day before Mamdani met Trump. Are the two linked in a symbolic changing of the guard of U.S. politics? asks Joe Lauria.
Donald Trump’s twenty-point plan offers nothing political for the Palestinians. It creates a joint U.S.-Israel occupation.
Information uncovered by plaintiffs undermined F.B.I.’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaeda hijackers.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target — China.
RUSSIAGATE UPDATE: A newly released 29-page secret Appendix to the Durham report reveals even more damning evidence that the Russiagate affair was a stitch-up from the get-go.
