Ex-C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern turned 87 Tuesday. From his Bronx days, to Fordham, the U.S. Army and C.I.A., McGovern grew close to power, then became one of its fiercest critics. Watch the replay!
Mary Kostakidis was known as “the face” of Australia’s SBS evening news. A former head of SBS TV told CN’s award ceremony that Kostakidis was the “conscience” of SBS, for among things, wanting to tell the Palestinians’ story.
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.
The prominent Australian journalist, in court accused of racial hatred for her reporting critical of Israel’s genocide, has won Consortium News’ 2026 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award, which she was given at a ceremony in Sydney on Sunday.
Consortium News is asking readers to become members of the first U.S. independent news site on the Web, founded by legendary investigative journalist Bob Parry 31 years ago in 1995.
Is the West still a democracy – or already a declining empire? German journalist Patrik Baab interviews CN Editor Joe Lauria about the U.S. roles in Ukraine, Gaza and the suppression of free speech in the West.