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.



By…

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…

As Washington pushes Beirut to produce a disarmament plan, Hezbollah's leader vows to keep "the weapons that protected our dignity," Aseel Saleh reports.



By Aseel Saleh
Peoples Dispatch
Heated political debates over the the U.S. plan to disarm resistance…

The allegation against Ramzy Baroud rests not on proof, but on the word of a belligerent army, writes Mohamed El Mokhtar.



By Mohamed El Mokhtar
Common Dreams
The Palestine Chronicle is not a militant organization. It is a modest, independent publication…

Dozens of small civilian vessels carrying activists, parliamentarians, doctors and trade unionists, along with humanitarian cargo, are preparing for departure.  




By Peoples Dispatch
In July 2025, a new international maritime initiative was launched:…

Australia's diplomatic attack on Iran may have further eroded confidence in the country's spy agency and the Albanese government, Mick Hall reports.



By Mick Hall
Special to Consortium News
The expulsion of Iran’s ambassador to Australia over accusations…

News outlets are so busy chasing Israel’s latest crime in Gaza — currently its horrific attack on Nasser Hospital — they never pause to piece together the bigger story of genocide.



By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net



An investigation by CNN…

The political and media establishment has finally begun to acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but this shift remains hollow until those complicit in Israel’s genocide are truly exposed.




By Anthony Hayward
Declassified UK
Some 21 months into Israel’s…

Mara Kronenfeld, executive director of UNRWA USA exposes Israel's war on the U.N. and how the destruction of UNWRA infrastructure is an attack on all civilian life in Gaza.

By Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report
For millions of Palestinians, the United…

The controversial appointment of Josh Smith as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons has drawn ire from employees while many inmates are supportive.




By John Kiriakou
Special to Consortium News
President Donald Trump in early June did something…