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  •  | Simón Bolívar Statue in Toluca Mexico Rodolfo Mendoza  Flickr  CC BY NC 20 | MR Online

    Latin America’s long fight against the U.S. for sovereignty

    Originally published: Consortium News on May 13, 2025 (more by Consortium News)  |

    John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin.

  •  | Craig Murray in rubble in Baalbek Lebanon Nov 22 2024 Niels Ladefoged via craigmurrayorguk | MR Online

    Twisting the terrorism narrative

    Originally published: Consortium News on January 8, 2025 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.

  •  | Anti Nuclear War Movement | MR Online

    Rally to revive anti-nuclear war movement

    Originally published: Consortium News on September 25, 2024 by consortium News Staff (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Sep 27, 2024)

    Saturday in Kingston, New York an impassioned plea to mobilize an anti-nuclear war and pro-peace movement will be launched with Scott Ritter, Max Blumenthal and Judge Andrew Napolitano among the speakers.

  •  | Apollo making a heart symbol against violence 9Now Screenshot | MR Online

    Lost in translation: Outcry over the ‘Last Supper’

    Originally published: Consortium News on July 29, 2024 by Cathy Vogan (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2024)

    A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.

  •  | Blinken at the NATO public policy forum at the NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday NATOYouTube | MR Online

    NATO SUMMIT: Collectively losing their minds

    Originally published: Consortium News on July 11, 2024 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jul 13, 2024)

    Soon after Russia entered Ukraine, the Pentagon corrected Antony Blinken for saying Kiev would get NATO fighter jets. Blinken was applauded at the NATO summit yesterday for saying F-16s would soon arrive in Ukraine. What changed? asks Joe Lauria.

  •  | Adolf Hitler at a window of the Reich Chancellery receives an ovation on the evening of his inauguration as chancellor Jan 30 1933 Robert Sennecke German Federal Archive Wikimedia Commons Public domain | MR Online

    The treachery of the Nazi-Zionist alliance

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 24, 2024 by Stefan Moore (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jun 28, 2024)

    By collaborating with the Nazis, a small group of Zionists weakened anti-fascist resistance and contributed to the genocide of Europe’s Jews, writes Stefan Moore.

  •  | Arundhati Roy in 2012 Vikramjit Kakati Wikimedia Commons CC BY SA 30 | MR Online

    India’s motive in prosecuting Arundhati Roy

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 18, 2024 by Ullekh N.P. (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jun 27, 2024)

    The Modi government plans to try the globally renowned author under a draconian anti-terrorism law, reports Ullekh NP.

  •  | US is engaging Julian Assanges lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free | MR Online

    Assange in plea deal talks

    Originally published: Consortium News on March 20, 2024 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Mar 22, 2024)

    The report in The Wall Street Journal makes public what Consortium News had learned off the record, namely that the U.S. is engaging Julian Assange’s lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.

  •  | Auckland New Zealand from the Sky Tower 2018 Pedro Szekely Flickr CC BY SA 20 | MR Online

    New Zealand Leaning to controversial AUKUS Alliance

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 15, 2023 by Mick Hall (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2024)

    As the new government of nuclear-free New Zealand leans towards joining the anti-China bloc, critics warn of weakened sovereignty in a sea of expanding militarization, Mick Hall reports.

  •  | US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Vice Adm Brad Cooper arriving in Bahrain for a virtual Red Sea security meeting with representatives of dozens of countries and the EU and NATO on Dec 19 DoD photo by Chad J McNeeley | MR Online

    The mess they made of 2023

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 27, 2023 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Abroad and at home, ideology ruled the U.S.

  •  | Palestine solidarity march in London on Oct 9 Alisdare Hickson Flickr CC BY SA 20 | MR Online

    Pinnacle of horror

    Originally published: Consortium News on November 15, 2023 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life.

  •  | Author and US historian of the Middle East Rashid Khalidi speaking at Brooklyn Law School in 2009 Photo Credit Thomas Good NLN | MR Online

    Review: “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”

    Originally published: Consortium News on September 18, 2023 by As’ad AbuKhalil (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Sep 20, 2023)

    Historian Rashid Khalidi’s concise and at times personal take on a century of colonial conquest and resistance in Palestine is a highly accessible read that focuses on key events and themes.

  •  | May 18 2015 Remains of an Eastern Orthodox church after shelling by the Ukrainian Army near Donetsk International Airport Eastern Ukraine Mstyslav Chernov CC BY SA 40 Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Ukraine timeline tells the story

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 30, 2023 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Jul 06, 2023)

    Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists, like at CN, who try to tell it now.

  •  | Boxes of classified documents stored in a bathroom at Mar a Lago US Department of Justice Public domain Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    The rape of Lady Justice

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 12, 2023 (more by Consortium News)  |

    This is an open-and-shut case of the judiciary being misused to keep Trump out of the political process. Unlike during the Russiagate years, liberal authoritarians know they are operating in broad daylight this time.

  •  | Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday ABC screenshot | MR Online

    A sane voice amidst the madness

    Originally published: Consortium News on March 17, 2023 by Joe Lauria (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Mar 18, 2023)

    Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia, writes Joe Lauria.

  •  | Chinese President Xi Jinping during talks via video with Russian President Vladimir Putin Dec 30 2022 Kremlin | MR Online

    China’s peace plan for Ukraine

    Originally published: Consortium News on March 3, 2023 by Tony Kevin (more by Consortium News)  | (Posted Mar 13, 2023)

    It will be attractive to the Global South, writes Tony Kevin. It will cause consternation in the Western war party camp.

  •  | 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.

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