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  • | Ellsberg | MR Online

    Losing 1st Amendment reverses War of Independence

    Originally published: Consortium News on January 22, 2023 by Daniel Ellsberg (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jan 28, 2023)

    Daniel Ellsberg says using the Espionage Act against journalist Julian Assange in blatant violation of the First Amendment means the First Amendment is essentially gone.

  • | Torchlight parade behind portrait of Bandera on his birthday Jan 1 2015 Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    On the influence of neo-Nazism in Ukraine

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 29, 2022 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jan 04, 2023)

    A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.

  • | US Capitol US National Archives Public domain | MR Online

    A war of rhetoric & reality

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 27, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Washington put us all on notice when Zelensky got to town: It has no intention of seeking a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis and every intention of recommitting indefinitely to its ideological war.

  • | Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signing the INF Treaty in the East Room at the White House in 1987 Public DomainWikimedia Commons | MR Online

    A Lexicon for disaster

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 19, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Russia seeks arms control agreements to prevent dangerous escalation. But the U.S. seeks only unilateral advantage. This risks all out conflict unless this changes.

  • | Russian President Vladimir Putin with then German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 10 2015 at the Kremlin Russian Government | MR Online

    Merkel reveals West’s duplicity

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 5, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    War, it seems, was the only option Russia’s opponents had ever considered.

  • | Exit the Energy Charter Treaty action in Brussels by Friends of the Earth Europe July 6 2021 Friends of the Earth Europe Flickr CC BY NC SA 20 | MR Online

    COP27: Corporate courts versus developing world

    Originally published: Consortium News on November 17, 2022 by Manuel Pérez-Rocha (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Nov 19, 2022)

    As rich countries move away from dispute-settlement mechanisms that give corporations power to block environmental protections, Manuel Pérez-Rocha says they keep imposing them on developing countries through trade pacts.

  • | Lula da Silva speaking at the national congress of the PT Party in 2017 Lula MarquesAgência PT CC BY 20 | MR Online

    What worries the U.S. most about Lula

    Originally published: Consortium News on November 3, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Steve Ellner says opposition to NATO’s stance on Ukraine has created fertile ground for the expansion of a bloc of non-aligned nations, now with a progressive possibly at the helm.

  • | President of Russia Vladimir Putin with Defense Minister of Russia Sergey Shoigu after a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Kremlinru CC BY 40 Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Russia’s ‘dirty bomb’ scare

    Originally published: Consortium News on October 25, 2022 by Scott Ritter (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Oct 30, 2022)

    Russia appears to be legitimately concerned about the possibility of Ukraine building and using a “dirty bomb,” so much so that it has taken the unprecedented step of reaching out to multiple senior Western defense authorities.

  • | Leni Riefenstahl center filming with two assistants 1936 Bundesarchiv CC BY SA 30 Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Silencing the Lambs — How propaganda works

    Originally published: Consortium News on September 7, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.

  • | The Historic Collapse of Journalism | MR Online

    The historic collapse of journalism

    Originally published: Consortium News on September 6, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters, writes Patrick Lawrence.

  • | US President Joe Biden after delivering remarks on the Russian invasion of Ukraine Feb 24 White House Adam Schultz | MR Online

    The imaginary war

    Originally published: Consortium News on July 13, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    What were the policy cliques, “the intelligence community” and the press that serves both going to do when the kind of war in Ukraine they talked incessantly about turned out to be imaginary, a Marvel Comics of a conflict with little grounding in reality? I have wondered about this since the Russian intervention began on Feb. 24. I knew the answer would be interesting when finally we had one.

  • | Lithuanian government building in Vilnius Pofka CC BY SA 40 Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Lithuania’s Brinkmanship

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 30, 2022 by Scott Ritter (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jul 09, 2022)

    The restoration of Russia’s rail connection with Kaliningrad is urgently needed to avoid a conflict in the Baltics that has worried NATO for a long time.

  • | Former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Declassified UK | MR Online

    Corbyn on the Establishment’s campaign against him

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 24, 2022 by Matt Kennard (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2022)

    In an interview with Matt Kennard, the former Labour Party leader speaks candidly about British media, the U.K. military and intelligence services, Israel, Keir Starmer, Julian Assange and Saudi Arabia.

  • | Pro Ukraine demonstration in Washington Feb 25 John Brighenti Flickr CC BY 20 | MR Online

    The great acquiescence — Glory to Ukraine

    Originally published: Consortium News on April 16, 2022 by Patrick Lawrence (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted May 13, 2022)

    Americans don’t merely acquiesce to the imperium’s wars, interventions, collective punishments and assorted other deprivations. They actively embrace them.

  • | Ukrainian government photo of soldiers during battle in Mariupol on March 15 | MR Online

    The U.S. bubble of pretend

    Originally published: Consortium News on April 5, 2022 by Patrick Lawrence (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2022)

    The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans.

  • | Victims in Bucha Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Development Mikhail FedorovWikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Questions abound about Bucha massacre [Warning Graphic Images]

    Originally published: Consortium News on April 4, 2022 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2022)

    The West has made a snap judgment about who is responsible for the massacre at the Ukrainian town of Bucha with calls for more stringent sanctions on Russia, but the question of guilt is far from decided, writes Joe Lauria.

  • | Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 2012 Cmichel67 Own work CC BY SA 40 Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Pity the Nation

    Originally published: Consortium News on March 7, 2022 by Scott Ritter (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2022)

    Fact-based arguments Scott Ritter made challenging the case for war against Iraq were effectively silenced. Today he sees the same template in play towards anyone challenging the dogma of “Putinism.”

  • | NATO | MR Online

    For Washington, war never ends

    Originally published: Consortium News on March 16, 2022 by Diana Johnstone (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2022)

    The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the rearmament of Germany confirmed that for the United States, the war in Europe was not entirely over. It still isn’t.

  • | US troops arrive at Nuremberg International Airport on Feb 28 to join the NATO Response Force which was activated for the first time in history in a collective defence context NATO | MR Online

    Ukraine & Nukes

    Originally published: Consortium News on March 3, 2022 by Steven Starr (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Mar 05, 2022)

    After a New York Times reporter grossly distorted what Putin and Zelensky have said and done about nuclear weapons, Steven Starr corrects the record and deplores Western media, in general, for misinforming and leading the entire world in a dangerous direction.

  • | Putin explaining his reasons for going to war | MR Online

    What Putin says are the causes & aims of Russia’s military action

    Originally published: Consortium News on February 24, 2022 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Feb 25, 2022)

    Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” Ukraine in an action taken after 30 years of the U.S. pushing Russia too far, writes Joe Lauria.

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