ALASKA SUMMIT: CN Editor Joe Lauria joined Jackson Hinkle's Legitimate Targets to discuss the Putin-Trump meeting and the Middle East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qo1PNaeeNM
What was once Seward's Folly may become Trump's as the U.S. and Russian presidents…

Every American's inalienable right to be left alone is violated by the federal government so thoroughly, quietly and continuously that we don’t even notice it, writes Andrew P. Napolitano



By Andrew P. Napolitano
What if the federal government captures…

ALASKA SUMMIT: If Moscow wants to avoid its own Vietnam in Ukraine, Putin may accept a “negotiated solution” that applies copious lipstick to the pig of actual defeat for the U.S., NATO and Ukraine.




By Ray McGovern
Special to Consortium News
How…

Here is a little antiseptic daylight on Yvette Cooper's arguments that Palestine Action, a nonviolent, direct-action group, deserved the "terrorist" proscription that the home secretary slapped on it.



By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk
Yvette Cooper…

Alan MacLeod on Langley's sprawling network of hidden websites that served as global spy terminals disguised as harmless blogs, news hubs and fan pages.



By Alan MacLeod
MintPress News
The C.I.A. didn't just infiltrate governments; it infiltrated…

Natalyie Baldwin asks the British author about the Soviet collapse, the 1990s, Vladimir Putin's governance, the rise of a new cold war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.



By Natylie Baldwin
Special to Consortium News
Richard Sakwa is a British  academic…

The early deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon and other African revolutionary leaders underline the brutality of imperialism. If a radical appears to lead a people to sovereignty, the radical cannot be allowed to survive.



By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental:…

The presence of U.S. aircraft alongside RAF spy planes raises questions about whether British intelligence assisted Israel’s targeting of the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza.




By Iain Overton
Declassified UK

On the evening of Dec. 12, 2024, Israel…

From organizing an Amazon.com shop to be being arrested on an aid ship bound for Gaza, Chris Smalls has become a dynamic political figure speaking for a new generation of Americans dissidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08YBGH--f0&t=3s
Chris Smalls…

Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history – can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?



By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute…

The media are legitimising Israel's murder of journalists — and they are doing it because they are racist propagandists for a system of Western colonial control in the Middle East.



By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net
How is it possible for a BBC reporter…

Why are European countries shifting towards recognizing Palestinian statehood at this late stage of Israel's genocide in Gaza? Three Al Shabaka policy analysts weigh in.



By Inès Abdel Razek, Yara Hawari and Diana Buttu 
Al Shabaka
Since October…

The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply, wrote Joe Lauria.

As a U.N. observer state, Palestine became…

The Dwarfs had to slink away. Will they, at long last, tell Zelensky they cannot back up their rhetoric with the needed arms and financial support?





By Ray McGovern
Special to Consortium News

I shall not make the de-rigueur disclaimer lest anyone…

CN editor Joe Lauria tells RT News the significance of the recent flurry of high-level diplomatic activity on Ukraine may be overblown and that tangible progress depends on Donald Trump's shaky resolve.
https://youtu.be/CHb0MuyO5mo
RT: And let's discuss…

The Israeli security minister released a video of himself hectoring a barely recogniable Marwan Barghouti, the unifying Palestinian leader who has been imprisoned since 2002.



By Aseel Saleh
Peoples Dispatch
Once again Israeli Minister of National…

The Israelis bomb hungry people in Gaza and torture Palestinians for the same reason  — to crush resistance to the occupation.





By Vijay Prashad
Peoples Dispatch

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It was astonishing to read about the death of Ahmad Saeed…

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