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Close That Facility: The Pine Gap Protests consortiumnews.com/2026/07/27/c... Pine Gap is a garrison outpost dominated by the U.S. imperium that defiles sacred native land and aids Israel in its cleansing conflict against Palestinians, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Trump Was the Symptom, Corporate Impunity the Disease consortiumnews.com/2026/07/27/t... 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 Marie Gottschalk.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Phantom Leftwing Enemies consortiumnews.com/2026/07/24/c... The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.
Michael Brenner: Reifying Stupidity consortiumnews.com/2026/07/22/m... We are experiencing a global outbreak of stupidity that afflicts political elites disproportionally.
Vijay Prashad: Imagining a New Way consortiumnews.com/2026/07/22/v... Across much of the Global South the old certainties of the IMF’s dogma of austerity models have evaporated. What replaces it must come from the people of Global South.
Gulf Arabs & Subsidized Occupation consortiumnews.com/2026/07/22/g... The pivot of Arab Gulf states away from historical Arab nationalism to Western alignment has sacrificed the Palestinian cause to transactional diplomacy and dynastic preservation, writes M. Reza Behnam.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Enduring US War on Russia consortiumnews.com/2026/07/21/j... Eisenhower’s warning that U.S. policy would be captured by a scientific-technological elite explains why Washington sustains the war in Ukraine as a unique, live-fire laboratory for AI warfare at scale.
Vijay Prashad: Profiting Off Food Kills Children consortiumnews.com/2026/07/21/v... Every year in the for-profit food system, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of food-borne disease.
Nyerere’s Grandson: Why I Support Palestine Action consortiumnews.com/2026/07/20/n... A descendant of Tanzania’s first president, Julius Nyerere, tells Old Bailey why he supports Palestine Action and wants to stop Gaza genocide, Phil Miller reports.
Hedges Report: Weaponizing ‘Civil Death’ to Crush Dissent consortiumnews.com/2026/07/07/h... Hüseyin Dogru, a German citizen who founded Red Media, discusses the sanctions the E.U. imposed on him, what his case means for journalism and the precedent it sets in the West’s repression of speech.
Nietzsche’s Demon in Nazi & Zionist Education consortiumnews.com/2026/07/06/n... Lawrence Davidson on the practical application of Nietzsche’s notion of eternal recurrence in the perverted Nazi and Zionist educational processes.
ROBERT PARRY: Netanyahu Unmasks Israel consortiumnews.com/2026/06/16/r... 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.
Craig Murray: The UK Joins the Pirates consortiumnews.com/2026/06/16/c... This attempt to enforce Western sanctions in areas where Western powers have no jurisdiction is a classic example of the current aggressive resurgence of imperialism replacing international law.
Israel’s ‘Intolerable’ Abuse of Gaza Flotilla Abductees consortiumnews.com/2026/05/21/i... More than 15 nations, including Italy, France and Canada, have summoned Israeli ambassadors over the “unacceptable” treatment of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants, Brett Wilkins reports.
Killing & Indifference consortiumnews.com/2026/04/10/k... Andrew P. Napolitano has questions about the violations of the U.S. Constitution and established jurisprudence and the conduct of Congress and the Trump administration.
Craig Murray: The Strait of Hormuz & the Law consortiumnews.com/2026/04/09/c... Tehran has every right under international law to close the Strait of Hormuz to nations with which it is in armed conflict.
Top BBC Iran Reporter Revealed as Opposition Activist consortiumnewts.com/2026/04/09/t... A senior BBC reporter is a dedicated regime change activist whose career was launched by a C.I.A.-founded propaganda network, raising serious questions about the BBC. Wyatt Reed reports.
Iran War Exposes Cracks in BRICS Wall consortiumnews.com/2026/03/26/i... Fissures have opened in the bloc over the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, writes Betwa Sharma. India has perhaps been most divisive. Let alone as a global power, India isn’t even projecting itself as an independent, regional one.
Judge Slams Trump Admin for Orwellian History consortiumnews.com/2026/02/19/j...
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Unabated US Prisoner Abuse consortiumnews.com/2026/01/16/j... Guards are leaving federal inmates in restraints for hours and even, in dozens of cases, as long as a week. That’s just the latest finding on abuses pervading the system.
Minnesota Should Charge ICE Agent With Murder consortiumnews.com/2026/01/13/m... Marjorie Cohn sizes up the legal considerations surrounding Jonathan Ross’ fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful consortiumnews.com/.../john-pil... UPDATED: John Pilger died two years ago today on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his job as a reporter, writes Joe Lauria.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: After the First 70,669 Deaths December 19, 2025 consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/p... I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143.
Among the Unalienable Rights consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/a... Nothing will chill Tucker Carlson’s exercise of the freedom of speech, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. But that does not absolve Chuck Schumer and the U.S. Senate.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: What, Peace in Our Time? consortiumnews.com/.../patrick-... The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West.
Hedges Report: Inside America’s Academic Gulags consortiumnews.com/2025/10/10/h...
India Disavows 'Taijin Spirit," Turns to EU consortiumnews.com/2025/09/10/i... President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping, at the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Summit in Tianjin, China. (Wikimedia/CC BY 4.0)
Australian Journalist in Court Accused of ‘Anti-Semitism’ consortiumnews.com/2025/07/29/a... Mary Kostakidis was in federal court in Adelaide on Tuesday defending herself against racial discrimination charges for her reporting and commentary on Gaza, reports Joe Lauria.