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Patrick Lawrence: The Center the Centrists Can’t Hold

corinna barnard — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:10:03 +0000

What is unfolding now in France and Germany is happening one or another way across the Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress. By Patrick Lawrence in London ScheerPost “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The…

WATCH: Ritter Lobbies at Capitol to Avert Nuclear War

Consortiumnews.com — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 18:05:55 +0000

Scott Ritter joined Medea Benjamin and Code Pink to urgently lobby members on Capitol Hill to do what they could to stop the U.S. from starting a nuclear war. By Joe Lauria on Capitol Hill, Washington Special to Consortium News…

WATCH: No Nuclear War — A Call to Reason

Consortiumnews.com — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:54:39 +0000

Live from the National Press Club in Washington three panels, moderated by Scott Ritter and Medea Benjamin, examined the danger of nuclear conflict and ways to resist it. Watch the replay. Watch the panel discussions moderated by Scott Ritter and…

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…

Vijay Prashad: Swimming in Mud in 5th Circle of Hell

corinna barnard — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:00:48 +0000

Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the “far right of a special type” — a right that is intimately tied to liberalism — cultivates a politics of anger. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research When Dante Alighieri…

On Way Out, Reckless Biden Allows Deep Russia Strikes

Consortiumnews.com — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 03:47:10 +0000

With his party decisively beat at the polls, the rejected president is gambling with regional security to preserve his ‘legacy’ and to saddle the incoming president, who wants to end the war, with a major new crisis, writes Joe Lauria.…

Caitlin Johnstone: Suppressing Speech to Aid Israel

Consortiumnews.com — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:08:19 +0000

Trump literally standing before an Israeli flag and vowing to kill free speech for Israeli interests makes a lie of everything the “MAGA movement” says it stands for, exposing it for the scam it’s always been. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au…

Deliberate Lies About Amsterdam Violence

corinna barnard — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 09:19:25 +0000

News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news, writes Jonathan Cook. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net The media’s role in peddling disinformation over last week’s violence in Amsterdam just keeps getting darker. Owen Jones has…

Trump’s Return to the White House

corinna barnard — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:00:47 +0000

Trump is clearly not the change required, says John Wight, but he understands far better the America that for Washington has become enemy territory. By John Wight Special to Consortium News Despite Jan. 6, 2021. Despite all of his legal…