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JOHN KIRIAKOU: Cellphone Seizures & the Courts

corinna barnard — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:27:47 +0000

We cannot trust that federal agents will just be looking for child pornographers or international drug traffickers when they demand access to our electronics at the border. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News After years of conflicting decisions by…

JOHN KIRIAKOU: The FBI Deserves Kash Patel

corinna barnard — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:05:29 +0000

After all the bureau’s crimes, Americans need somebody who is willing to tear this organization down to its bare studs. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News On the surface of things, Kash Patel is the kind of person most…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria

Consortiumnews.com — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:12:47 +0000

Decades after deploying mass violence and rendering citizens grotesquely ignorant of the world, U.S.-led powers appear willing to risk world war, while reinventing a terrorist to lead what was a secular nation until last week. By Patrick Lawrence Special to…

PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Biden Family of Liars

corinna barnard — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:00:20 +0000

Given Joe Biden’s apparently intimate involvement in Hunter’s dealings, it follows that his intent in pardoning his son is effectively to secure a pardon for himself. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News This is the sixth in Consortium News’s…

SCOTT RITTER: Congress Must Prevent Nuclear War

Consortiumnews.com — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:30:31 +0000

Today is the gravest danger of nuclear war than at any time in the nuclear era. This is a reality so stark and intimidating that many people feel powerless to do anything about it. But something can be done. A Call…

RAY McGOVERN: Neocons Try Again in Syria

corinna barnard — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:01:02 +0000

Events during the Obama administration probably point to the way things will work out again, if the attack on Syrian forces continues for more than a few weeks. A day after Israel agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon last week…

AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Trump II & the Middle East

corinna barnard — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:34:23 +0000

There are always hopes — so far proven unfounded — that in a second term an American president will be kinder to the Arabs. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News It is too early to draw an outline of…

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Sebastian Gorka Is Back

corinna barnard — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:00:36 +0000

This time around, Trump has elected to ignore the F.B.I. security clearance vetting process for the sworn member of Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group that served under the Nazis. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Sebastian Gorka is back. …

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s ‘Samson Option’

corinna barnard — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:06:37 +0000

It wasn’t hard to foresee that those planning and executing U.S. foreign policy, lacking all imagination and anything remotely resembling courage, would prove incapable of an orderly transition to a multipolar world order. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News…

JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Pro-Trump Mood in Greece

corinna barnard — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:00:00 +0000

The Greeks don’t know anything about American domestic policy; nor do they care. But they do care about war and immigration. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News I spent the past two weeks on my ancestral island of Rhodes,…