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.
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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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Thomas Jefferson and James Madison recognized the price for safety can include loss of personal freedom, expansion of presidential power, loss of local control of police and violation of the principle of subsidiarity, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.

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The extent to which Trump's démarche toward Moscow succeeds will be the extent to which the U.S. can transcend a long, regrettable history and finally embrace the 21st century. 





By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News

There is no saying…

Rollo Romig, author of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist book I Am On the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Ruse of Autocracy in India examines the historic and political context of the 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh and chronicles the rise of Hindu nationalist…

Based on an Australian intelligence "assessment," the Australian government on Tuesday expelled Iran's ambassador and three other embassy officials for allegedly planning an attack on a Melbourne synagogue last December.

By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium…

As speculation mounts about the possibility of Trump pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, Alan MacLeod unravels the intelligence ties of the Maxwell family. 




By Alan MacLeod
MintPress News
With speculation mounting that U.S. President Donald Trump could…

The razing of Gaza is not a crime only against the Palestinian people but against our cultural and historical heritage. We can't understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestine and Israel, if we don't understand the past.




By Chris…

A U.N. Security Council vote to grant Palestine permanent U.N. membership would end Israel’s zealous delusions of permanent control over Palestine, write Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares. But the U.S. stands in the way.




By Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil…

European elites, who have lived under U.S. shelter throughout the post-war period, are in no way capable of becoming independent. So-called EU strategic autonomy is an empty world. This is a new form of Stockholm Syndrome, writes Uroš Lipušcek.



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Tens of millions in China and the U.S.S.R. gave their lives to defeat fascism during World War II. As imperialist militarisation rises again, No Cold War reiterates a call for peace.




By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research…

It's hard to see how orchestrating anti-Semitic attacks in Australia would advance Iranian interests more than the interests of some other state, like, say, just for example, Israel.



By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
Listen to Tim Foley…

Trump's campaign to use federal force to enhance public safety lacks constitutional authority, writes Andrew Napolitano.




By Andrew P. Napolitano
“It is (my) intention to ... demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the…