A popular version, with subtitles, suddenly was made unavailable on Wednesday. The tape provides the smoking gun of U.S. involvement in 2014 Kiev coup. (Read the transcript).By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium NewsThe smoking gun proving U.S. involvement in the 2014 coup in Kiev h … | Continue reading
The ability to manipulate public thought, not just within the U.S. but across vast swaths of nations, has allowed the U.S. to manufacture international consensus for whatever agendas it wishes to advance.By Caitlin JohnstoneCaitlinJohnstone.comIf you use Twitter and engage with t … | Continue reading
With Australia's vassaldom in mind, Caitlin Johnstone says the president-elect of Bolivia just voiced a brazen heresy against imperial U.S. doctrine. By Caitlin JohnstoneCaitlinJohnstone.comThe new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news age … | Continue reading
Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of "Putinism."Pity the NationPity the nation whose people are sheepAnd whose shepherds mi | Continue reading
While Western media deploys Zelensky’s heritage to refute accusations of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, the president now depends on them as front line fighters in the war with Russia, report Alex Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal. By Alex Rubinstein and Max BlumenthalThe GrayzoneBack in Octo … | Continue reading
Exclusive: Canada’s fiercely anti-Russian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland says her Ukrainian grandfather struggled “to return freedom and democracy to Ukraine,” but she leaves out that he was a Nazi propagandist justifying the slaughter of Jews, writes Arina Tsukanova.By Arina … | Continue reading
U.S. prosecutors have five times misled two British courts on key points about Julian Assange's health as it attempts to overturn a ruling against extraditing him to the United States, report Cathy Vogan and Joe Lauria. By Catherine Vogan and Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium NewsT … | Continue reading
Is society safer with Daniel Hale, who exposed U.S. drone civilian killings, being housed with some of the most dangerous prisoners in America?By John KiriakouSpecial to Consortium NewsDrone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sent on Sunday to the notorious Communications Management U … | Continue reading
More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed.By John PilgerAs a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the Unite … | Continue reading
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A House subcommittee on Thursday approved a large-scale funding bill that includes provisions protecting banks from being punished for working with marijuana businesses and allowing Washington, D.C. to legalize cannabis sales. The move by congressional Democrats to let the Distri … | Continue reading
In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance.By Diana Johnstonein Paris Special to Consortium NewsBy titling their recently published World Economic Forum treatise C … | Continue reading
Journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has watched Julian Assange’s extradition trial from the public gallery at London’s Old Bailey. He spoke with Timothy Erik Ström of Arena magazine, Australia.Q: Having watched Julian Assange’s trial firsthand, can you describe the prevailing at … | Continue reading
The fox is guarding the henhouse and Washington is prosecuting a publisher for exposing its own war crimes. Alexander Mercouris diagnoses the incoherence of the U.S. case for extradition. By Alexander Mercourisin LondonSpecial to Consortium NewsFollowing the Julian Assange case a | Continue reading
Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable find the institutions of power unite to crucify them.By Chris HedgesScheerPost.comThe persecution of the attorney Steven Donziger is a grim illustration of … | Continue reading
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.By John Pilgerin Sydney, AustraliaWhen I first we … | Continue reading
For two and a half years the House Intelligence Committee knew CrowdStrike didn't have the goods on Russia. Now the public knows too.Twin Pillars of Russiagate CrumbleBy Ray McGovernSpecial to Consortium NewsHouse Intelligence Committee documents released Thursday reveal that the … | Continue reading
Thanks to 25 years of generosity from our readers, Consortium News is one of the longest, continuously running websites in history, and arguably the world's first online news site on the internet. By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium NewsIn terms of the internet, November 1995 is a … | Continue reading
Diana Johnstone's newly-published memoir offers an incisive, gritty, politically alert, and expansive account of post-war Europe, reports Patrick Lawrence in this interview with the author. By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium NewsDiana Johnstone first sojourned in Paris duri … | Continue reading
If Julian Assange were to succumb to the cruelties heaped upon him, week after week, month after month, year upon year, as doctors warn, newspapers like The Guardian will share the responsibility, writes John Pilger.By John PilgerNewspapers and other media in the United States an … | Continue reading
Captain Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov spared humanity from extinction on what has been called “the most dangerous moment in human history.”By Ray McGovernSpecial to Consortium News Oct. 27, 1962, is the date on which we humans were spared extinction thanks to Soviet Navy submarin … | Continue reading
What we witnessed yesterday was a naked demonstration of the power of the state, and a naked dictation of proceedings by the Americans, writes Craig Murray.By Craig MurrayCraigMurray.org.ukI was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. E … | Continue reading
Like Team Mueller's indictment last July of Russian agents, the full report reveals questions about Wikileaks' role that much of the media has been ignoring, writes Daniel Lazare.By Daniel LazareSpecial to Consortium NewsAs official Washington pores over the Gospel According to S … | Continue reading
Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi has worked with WikiLeaks for nine years on the Podesta emails and other revelations. Here's an insider's view of the publisher, which has incensed rulers around the world, desperate to hide their corruption. By Stefania Mauriziin RomeSpecial t … | Continue reading
One year later, the VIPS memo contending that the DNC emails were leaked and not hacked has yet to be successfully challenged. Meanwhile, the country sinks deeper into the morass of the new McCarthyism, comments Patrick Lawrence.By Patrick LawrenceSpecial to Consortium NewsA year … | Continue reading
At the time it seemed that Paris had yet again become the center of a world revolution, but in time a quite diffferent legacy has emerged, recalls Diana Johnstone fifty years later.By Diana Johnstone Special to Consortium Newsin ParisNineteen Sixty-Eight began with the Têt offen … | Continue reading