Thursday, January 31, 2019
Netanyahu’s Tolerance for Anti-Semitism Goes Back 120 Years
The Israeli prime minister’s ease with neo-Nazism and revisionist Holocaust history are not as surprising as they might seem, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare Special to Consortium News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a soft spot for rightwing…
Liberal Elite Still Luring Us Towards the Abyss
We have so little time, but still the old guard wants to block any possible path to salvation, writes Jonathan Cook. By JonathanCook Jonathan-Cook.net A group of 30 respected intellectuals, writers and historians has published a manifesto bewailing the imminent…
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Judge Denies Request to Unseal Assange Criminal Complaint
Judge Leonie Brinkema has denied an application from the Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press to unseal the U.S. government’s complaint against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News A U.S. federal judgement has ruled…
Malcolm X Warned About These Bourgeois Hustlers
Barack Obama was not an outlier but the norm when it comes to the tokens who are paraded by Democrats to represent faux-progress and counterfeit diversity and Kamala Harris is the next in line, says Teodrose Fikre of the Ghion Journal. By Teodrose…
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
The Making of Juan Guaidó: US Regime-Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader
Juan Guaidó has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization, write Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal of Grayzone. By Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal Grayzone Before the fateful date of Jan. 22, fewer than 1-in-5 Venezuelans had heard…
Mike Pompeo’s Foreign Policy Fantasy
The U.S. secretary of state is a Christian zealot who sees the U.S. as incapable of doing ill, writes Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson TothePointAnalysis.com U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo started out the new year—the date was Jan. 10—preaching…
Monday, January 28, 2019
How Russia-gate Rationalized Censorship
From the Archives: Russia-gate mania spread beyond a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reported Joe Lauria on Dec. 4, 2017. By Joe Lauria…
Israel’s Drive to Become a Modern-Day Sparta
A former army chief may present a challenge to Benjamin Netanyahu, but his campaign’s exultation of destruction and oppression is chilling, reports Jonathan Cook. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net With April’s elections looming, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has good reason to…
Sunday, January 27, 2019
The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
Written in 2014 during the Obama adminstration, this article by Eva Golinger gives insightful background to the current crisis in Venezuela and Washington’s role in stirring it up. By Eva Golinger Chavezcode.com Anti-government protests in Venezuela that seek regime change…
ROBERT PARRY: With the US Meddling Again in Latin America, a Look Back at How Washington Promoted Genocide in Guatemala
As the U.S. declares a new government in Venezuela, we look back at how the Reagan administration promoted human rights violations in Guatemala, including genocide inflicted on Indian villages, as the late Robert Parry wrote on Feb. 21, 2013. By…
Saturday, January 26, 2019
One Year Ago Today…
On this day last year Consortium News lost its founder and editor Robert Parry, who succumbed to cancer at the age of 68. We look back on his life with this video of his memorial service held in Arlington, VA…
Friday, January 25, 2019
Venezuela’s US-Backed Coup Leader Immediately Targets State Oil Company and Requests IMF Money
Unelected U.S.-backed coup leader Juan Guaidó immediately moved to try to restructure Venezuela’s state-owned oil company and seek financing from the neoliberal IMF, reports Ben Norton of The Gray Zone. US Annoited ‘President’ Moves to Seize National Petroleum Company By…
The Radicalization of US Policy on Venezuela
Never since the Cuban revolution, has the U.S. government played such an overtly activist role, writes Steve Ellner. By Steve Ellner Special to Consortium News Washington’s recognition of the shadow government headed by Venezuelan National Assembly president Juan Guaidó is one…
Watch 14th Vigil for Assange Here at 4PM EST Today
As Julian Assange’s lawyers filed a petition with the Inter-American Court for Human Rights and WikiLeaks is mentioned in a new Mueller indictment unveiled Friday, join us live for an online discussion starting at 4pm. Tune in at 4 pm.…
Senate Energy Democrats Hire Former Industry Lobbyist to Lead Staff
A contradiction is unfolding inside the party as it pushes for a Green New Deal, writes Steve Horn. By Steve Horn The Real News Network The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has hired a former fracking lobbyist to lead…
Thursday, January 24, 2019
The Democrats’ Fear of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Primaries are a way to replace passive liberals with progressive boat-rockers, writes Norman Solomon. By Norman Solomon NormanSolomon.com Earlier this month, both Politico and The New York Times reported that freshman Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was ruffling the feathers of fellow congressional Democrats.…
Second-Round Stakes Higher for Trump and Kim
The North Korea leader obviously wants a deal, writes Patrick Lawrence, which gives the U.S. a historic opportunity next month. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News President Donald Trump’s announcement late last week that he will meet North Korea’s…
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Assange Lawyers File Petition to Get US to Reveal Charges and Stop Ecuador From Extraditing Him
Lawyers for the WikiLeaks publisher want the OAS independent body to keep Assange from being sent to a courtroom in the U.S. and to end his isolation. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Julian Assange’s lawyers have filed an…
The Unwritten Rule Between the US and Hizbullah
The two sides have long agreed to keep their hostilities covert, writes As`ad AbuKhalil, but Israel would like that to change. By As`ad AbuKhalil in Beirut Special to Consortium News David Hale, the U.S. under secretary for political affairs, went…
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
A ‘Tick Tock’ Incident in the Land of the Piscataway
As each timeline emerged in the story, it seemed to offer a correction to an earlier version that muddied the moral of the story in its rush to judgement, says Corinna Barnard. By Corinna Barnard Special to Consortium News Consumers…
Mainstream Media Is Literally Making People Sick
The most obvious and significant culprit in ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ is the mass media, which has been fanning the flames of panic, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com A new, updated data set is now available on a psychological phenomenon that…
Death Penalty in US Not Dead Yet, But in Decline
Elected officials are not having a collective epiphany about capital punishment, writes John Kiriakou. But for other reasons executions are still going down. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Will 2019 be the year that the death penalty is…
Sunday, January 20, 2019
A Call to Reinvestigate American Assassinations
To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day a group of academics, journalists, lawyers, Hollywood artists, activists and intellectuals, including two of Robert F. Kennedy’s children, are calling for new investigations into four assassinations of the 1960s. On the occasion of…
MSM Begs For Trust After BuzzFeedNews Debacle
On Thursday BuzzFeedNews delivered the latest “bombshell” Russia-gate report to fizzle within 24 hours of its publication, one in a long series of wrong Russia-gate stories that have the media begging for forgiveness but does not seem to deter them…
BuzzFeed Writer Fails Again
Chalk up another failure for a rabid media desperately trying to prove the Russia-gate story, this time a piece by a reporter with a history of failure, as Joe Lauria reports. In their haste to prove they are right after…
Friday, January 18, 2019
Exclusive: They Spy With Their Little Eye
The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network,” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist and activist Suzie Dawson. NZ Spy Scandal: Elephants In The Room;…
CN to Broadcast 13th Vigil for Assange Today at 4 pm EST
Join us for the live broadcast here on Consortium News this afternoon starting at 4 pm EST until 7 pm to discuss the latest news on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks publisher continues to resist pressure to leave the Ecuador…
Narrative Control Firm Targeting Alternative Media
NewsGuard is led by some of the most virulently pro-imperialist individuals in America and its agenda to shore up narrative control for the ruling power establishment is clear, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative…
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Will China’s Moon Landing Launch a New Space Race?
Even if China’s rise heralds a new space race, not all consequences will be negative, writes Wendy Whitman Cobb. What will China discover on the far side of the moon? (BeeBright/Shutterstock.com) By Wendy Whitman Cobb, Cameron University The Conversation China became…
With Beto O’Rourke as Lightning Rod, Corporate Democrats Aim to Stifle Criticism
When a legitimate review of a politician’s voting record draws charges of “doing Trump’s bidding” that’s demagogic, writes Norman Solomon. By Norman Solomon NormanSolomon.com Well-informed public discussion is a major hazard for Democratic Party elites now eager to prevent Bernie…
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Bases, Bases, Everywhere … Except in Pentagon’s Report
These installations exist somewhere between light and shadow, writes Nick Turse. While acknowledged as foreign military outposts, they are excluded from the official inventory. By Nick Turse TomDispatch Within hours of President Trump’s announcement of a withdrawal of U.S. forces from…
Triumph of Conventional Wisdom: AP Expunges Iran/Contra Pardons from Barr’s Record
Sam Husseini writes that the news agency ignored the nominee’s link to a major U.S. scandal broken by its own investigative reporter at the time, the late Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News. By SamHusseini FAIR A president facing a…
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Israeli Politics Enter Grubby Realm of Reality TV
Netanyahu demands a TV showdown with his corruption accusers and Roseanne Barr prepares to address the Knesset. The poverty of public discourse has never been more apparent, writes Jonathan Cook. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu commandeered…
How Not to Build a ‘Great, Great Wall’
Trump’s promise of an insurmountable barrier between the U.S. and Mexico is an exercise in proven futility, writes Greg Grandin in this guided tour of fortification efforts over several decades. By Greg Grandin TomDispatch The point was less to actually build…
Ray McGovern: Russia-gate Evidence, Please
Was former FBI Director James Comey pulling a Hoover on Trump to keep him in line? asks Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern Special to Consortium News For those interested in evidence — or the lack of it— regarding collusion between…
Monday, January 14, 2019
A Workers’ Struggle in India to ‘Make the Land Proud’
This has been one of the largest general strikes in the world, writes Vijay Prasad from Kerala, in a roundup that also includes observations on Brazil and Palestine. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Over two days—Jan. 8 and…
Sunday, January 13, 2019
The Twitter Smearing of Corbyn and Assange
Historian and U.K. analyst Mark Curtis checks out the Twitter accounts of journalists whose names have been associated with the Integrity Initiative, a British “counter disinformation” program. By Mark Curtis British Foreign Policy Declassified The U.K.-financed Integrity Initiative, managed by…
The Memo That Helped Kill a Half Million People in Syria
The memo shows the advice Hillary Clinton was getting to plunge the U.S. deeper into the Syrian war. As Trump seeks to extricate the U.S. the memo has again become relevant, writes Daniel Lazare By Daniel Lazare Special to Consortium…
Saturday, January 12, 2019
CN Blows Past Fund Raising Goal; Top 10 Stories Revealed
Thank you readers. Consortium News far surpassed its Winter Fundraising goal. Thank you also for voting on the top 10 stories of 2018. Here are the results. Thanks to the generosity of our readers Consortium News blew past our $5o,000 Winter Fund Drive…
Friday, January 11, 2019
Watch the 12th Vigil for Assange Here Live at 4 pm Today
Consortium News will broadcast today at 4 pm the 12th online vigil for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, hosted by CN Editor Joe Lauria. Julian Assange is a wanted man because he published classified information that revealed the crimes and corruption…
Thursday, January 10, 2019
A Clinton Memo That Killed Half a Million People
A cockeyed analysis from 2012 publicized by Wikileaks—which has been overlooked due to apparent errors of dating—unleashed a catastrophe, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare Special to Consortium News A Hillary Clinton memo that Wikileaks made public in 2016 has…
Liberté, Égalité, Impérialisme! Vive la France in Black Africa!
“Hotel Rwanda” is a touchstone of interventionist ideology, writes Ann Garrison. Debunking that script helps show why the closure of the assassination case against Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame serves Western interests. By Ann Garrison Black Agenda Report Most Westerners believe…
For Hollywood, ‘Vice’ Remarkably Astute about Politics
Adam McKay’s movie may be flawed, but it’s still must-see for his depiction of how Cheney amassed power by exploiting Watergate, an inexperienced president and 9/11, writes James DiEugenio. By James DiEugenio Special to Consortium News In 2015, director Adam…
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Covert British Military-Smear Machine Moving into US
After mobilizing a disinformation campaign across Europe, documents show that the Integrity Initiative is now infiltrating the U.S., report Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames. By Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames Grayzone A bombshell domestic spy scandal has been unfolding in Britain, after…
Doing Business with Tyrants
How can people enjoy a corporate retreat knowing they are near a vast indoctrination camp for ethnic Uighurs? Lawrence Davidson analyzes capitalist conditioning in response to a New York Times article about McKinsey & Co. By Lawrence Davidson TothePointAnalysis.com On…
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Why China Tiptoed onto the Far Side of the Moon
Xi Jinping’s state media was strangely quiet about its historic lunar landing, writes Patrick Lawrence in this look at the U.S. effort to maintain primacy over advanced technologies. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News When China landed a space…
Alger Hiss and Russia-gate
Jeremy Kuzmarov argues the Cold War case has enduring relevance to American political culture and provides clues to the motives and machinations underlying the new Russophobia. By Jeremy Kuzmarov In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a former State Department employee and…
Monday, January 7, 2019
A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on Russia-gate
On the 2nd anniversary of the “assessment” blaming Russia for “collusion” with Trump there is still no evidence other than showing the media “colluded” with the spooks, says Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern Special to Consortium News The banner headline…
Yellow-Vest Women Stake Their Claim to the Movement
Hundreds of women gathered in Paris to confirm their commitment to the populist movement and women’s place in the country’s revolutionary history, reports Léa Bouchoucha from Paris for Consortium News. By Léa Bouchoucha in Paris Special to Consortium News “I‘m…
Everything That is Wrong with Mainstream Feminism
Women controlling the military-industrial complex is not feminism, it’s toxic masculinity. The fruit of a sick valuing system that is poisoning our environment and risking nuclear annihilation, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com Outlets like MSNBC and Politico have been excitedly…
Friday, January 4, 2019
Elizabeth Warren Nails Economy, Muddles Foreign Policy
It’s imperative to criticize presumable progressive politicians and parse their words carefully. It might open the door to actual improvements in policy, writes Sam Husseini. By Sam Hussein Post Haven In her New Year’s Eve announcement about forming an…
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Watch the 11th Online Vigil for Julian Assange Live on Friday Night
Consortium News will broadcast live the 11th Unity4J vigil for WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on Friday night from 8 pm to 11 pm EST. You can watch it here. Guests on past vigils have included Dan Ellsberg, John Pilger, former…
Has Trump Been Outmaneuvered on Syria Troop Withdrawal?
Trump’s possible backtracking on withdrawal from Syria means he may have been once again outmaneuvered by the Deep State, says Virginia State Senator Dick Black. Following the outcry after President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was pulling U.S. troops from Syria,…
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Fired School Employee Sues Over Israel Loyalty Oath
A Texas school employee has sued her school district because it fired her after she refused to sign a loyalty oath to Israel, as Marjorie Cohn reports. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout In a return to the bad old days of…
STRATCOM Wishes You a Very Scary New Year
The U.S. Strategic Command has deleted a New Year’s tweet that revealed its true values, as Caitlin Johnstone explains. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com U.S. Strategic Command (or “Stratcom” if you’re trying to make a nuclear-capable arm of the U.S. Defense…
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