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Punishing Pro-Hezbollah Speech
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Australian officials are rushing to denounce expressions of support for the Hezbollah resistance group as a violation of a new counter-terrorism law, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone in Melbourne, Australia CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. As
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In Moscow, a birch tree that's meant to symbolize U.S.-Russian friendship has several times failed to thrive, as Edward Lozansky recounts. But citizen diplomats keep trying. By Edward Lozansky As the drums of war beat louder and the warmongering rhetoric becomes shrill, a group of Russia
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Khamenei to US & Europe: 'Get Lost'
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The Iranian supreme leader told a gathering in Tehran that the region will enjoy peaceful coexistence only after the U.S. and Europe leave. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that the United States and some European nations are respo
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Flipping the Script on Israel's Killing of Nasrallah
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What if it had been Netanyahu? Jonathan Cook offers a mock report, modeled on how Western media treated the killing of Hezbollah's longtime leader. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Western journalists claim to report the news objectively and fairly. If they really did, this is what cover
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WATCH: CN Live! -- 'Assange Appears as Mideast Burns'
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Craig Murray and Richard Medhurst join CN Live! to discuss Julian Assange's appearance in Strasbourg and to lend their expert analysis to the blow up in the Middle East. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzH3lW7xs3Y Craig Murray, journalist, diplomat and whistleblower, and journalist Richie Medhur
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VP Debate Question on Mideast 'Could Have Been Written by AIPAC'
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The Council on American–Islamic Relations said the question was "reckless and biased" and "sounded like it could have been written by AIPAC, not CBS." By Edward Carver Common Dreams Foreign policy experts and civil rights groups criticized CBS News' moderators following Tuesday night's vi
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In a traditional trial of the Gitmo defendants, versus a plea agreement, George W. Bush et. al. could be indicted and tried in foreign countries for war crimes, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano “Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive.” —Sir
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WATCH: UN Security Council on Widening Mideast War
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The Security Council met this morning at 10 am EDT. Watch the replay here. ?? Please Donate Today to CN's Fall Fund Drive
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The Chris Hedges Report: Catastrophe in the Middle East
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"Israel is going all the way and doing anything possible to push Hezbollah to go for an all out war,“ Israeli journalist Gideon Levy says in this interview. By Chris Hedges Scheerpost It has become quite rare to hear any meaningful accountability for Israel’s actions from Israeli citizens them
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WATCH: CN Live! -- 'What Assange Said'
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CN Live! speaks to Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis and attorney Marjorie Cohn about Julian Assange's appearance before the Council of Europe today. Watch the replay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vCm6ybW2WA What Assange Said After nearly four months of freedom, Julian Assange has final
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Israelis Will Dance Again, Vows BBC Film
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Jonthan Cook on the British broadcaster's presentation of a documentary marking the one-year anniversary of the massacre of Israelis at the Nova rave. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net It says much about the institutional racism of the BBC that it thinks its Surviving October 7: We Will
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WATCH: Debate on Assange Resolution
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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Wednesday will debate a report and resolution on Julian Assange's treatment during his years of incarceration. Watch it here, 4am EDT, 10am CET and on replay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYyd9ucUSEA
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Vijay Prashad: When You Suffer for Your Sanity
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The antidote to many of our mental health crises must come from re-building society and forming a culture of community rather than a culture of antagonism and toxicity. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In 1930, Clément Fraisse (1901–1980), a shepherd from Fran
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WATCH: Ritter & Celente on Anti-Nuclear War Rally
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Scott Ritter, former weapons inspector, intelligence officer, author and journalist, and Gerald Celente, publisher of Trends Journal, discuss Saturday's major anti-war rally in Kingston, N.Y. with CN's Joe Lauria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jbjbU0ZY_A&t=2s The following speakers will sha
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CN Live! discusses Julian Assange's upcoming public appearance, his first since his plea deal, as well as proposed changes to the Espionage Act, with former Australian diplomat Alison Broinowski, interviewed by CN's Elizabeth Vos and Cathy Vogan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH3tS5MoG0
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Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine designed to bring Russia to the breaking point. By Scott Ritter SCOTT RITTER EXTRA If you’re not thinking about the end of the world by now, you’re either braindead or stuck in som
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Roger Waters, Scott Ritter, Andrew Napolitano, Randy Credico, Joe Lauria and Gerald Celente spoke live from Kingston, New York on Saturday. Watch the full replay. Audio problems during some of the speeches are being fixed and the repaired video will be posted shortly. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Nasrallah Is Dead But Bibi Hasn't Won
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Many people now mourn Nasrallah’s death, in Lebanon and elsewhere, but Hezbollah’s existence is nowhere near in question. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News You have probably heard by now, or heard about, Bibi Netanyahu’s viciously vituperative hate speech before the U.N. G
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AS'AD AbuKHALIL: The Middle East After Nasrallah
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The author looks back on the slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, on the times he interviewed him and the impact on the region of his killing. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News There is no doubt that leaders do matter in the life of nations and movements, no matter how much
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Assange: 'I'm Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism'
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Read the full text of Julian Assange's opening remarks in Strasbourg Tuesday morning, on the plea deal, WikiLeaks work, the Espionage Act, the C.I.A.'s retribution and the repression of journalism. Julian Assange's address Tuesday morning to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of
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WATCH: Assange's Testimony in Strasbourg -- LIVE!
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The liberated WikiLeaks publisher is testifying on Tuesday in his first public appearance since his plea deal hearing in June. Watch it live and on replay here. https://www.youtube.com/live/Mq85IZMeigc Julian Assange will appear before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliam
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VIPS MEMO: Advice to US Vice Presidential Candidates
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As the two major candidates for the U.S. vice presidency prepare to debate Tuesday night in Manhattan, veteran U.S. intelligence officials have some firm advice for them on Ukraine. September 30, 2024 MEMORANDUM TO: The Candidates for U.S. Vice President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professi
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JOHN KIRIAKOU: 'Russian Interference' 3.0
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Before breaking down the latest round of "election interference" accusations, let's look at what Russia’s “sinister” actions amounted to in 2016 and 2020. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said last week that the Russian
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Assange to Testify at Council of Europe
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The freed publisher will appear in person in Strasbourg on Oct. 1 to address the Council of Europe, WikiLeaks said today. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was released from prison in June, will address the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Fr
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Last weekend, the world came very close to nuclear war. By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News Most Americans approached last weekend thinking about how they would spend the much-anticipated end of the work week with their friends and family. Few realize how close they came to actualiz
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Two Men Who, if Allowed, Could Decide Humanity's Fate
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Edward Lozansky says that Zelensky — who will meet Biden in New York during the U.N. General Assembly — desperately wants the U.S. president to give approval for British missiles to fly into Russia. By Edward Lozansky Special to Consortium News We are on the eve of the possible final act
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Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
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"No act of rebellion, however futile it appears in the moment, is wasted" — a talk by Hedges with an audio introduction by Just Stop Oil's imprisoned Roger Hallam. The Chris Hedges Report This video is a recording of a talk given by Chris Hedges at the Kairos Club London on Sept. 11, 2024. Draw
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The World's Chance to Confront US-Israeli Genocide
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As nations come together in the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, they face both a serious challenge and an unprecedented opportunity, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Common Dreams On Wednesday, the General Assembly is scheduled t
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US Service Members to Congress: 'Stop Genocide'
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As Israel continues its genocide against the Palestinians, the number of active-duty U.S. conscientious objectors is increasing, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout On June 4, a coalition of active-duty service members, veterans and G.I. rights groups launched a campaign called
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John Wight on the grim context of the latest escalatory development in the blood-soaked proxy conflict between Russia and the West. By John Wight Special to Consortium News The legendary Athenian historian and general, Thucydides, was a man who believed in the supposed verities of war and c
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The Continuous Mass Military US Violence
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Caitlin Johnstone says it’s strange to spend her life criticizing the depravity of the empire. It’s a job that shouldn't exist, like working as a vampire hunter. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. I shouldn’t be able to do this for a l
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Vijay Prashad: Three New Kinds of Refugees
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Despite many attempts to redefine the term “refugee,” it remains in international law as a term related to persecution and not to starvation. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research One summer evening, the unrelenting sun over Niger refused to dip below the horizon. I
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Vijay Prashad: 'Progressive' Sellout of Venezuela
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Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the U.S. in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On Aug. 16, the Organization of American States (OAS), whose 1948 formatio
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Craig Murray: The End of Western Pluralist Democracy
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The Five Eyes intelligence services are plainly building up Venn diagrams of the democratic opposition to Zionism and the neoliberal project. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk No major Western leader is ever again going to be able to speak about human rights or ethical values, without at
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SCOTT RITTER: On a Highway to Hell
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Nuclear weapons offer an illusion of security. By allowing the U.S. nuclear posture to shift from deterrence to employment, there will be a scenario where the U.S. will use nuclear weapons. And then it's lights out. Successive U.S. administrations have eschewed arms control in favor of maint
on Sep 2
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UK Prime Minister Terrorizing Palestine Supporters
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After the arrest of Sarah Wilkinson on Thursday, Jonathan Cook says Keir Starmer is determined to silence critics of his — and his government's — complicity with Israel's genocide in Gaza. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net The arrest on Thursday of Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wil
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Photos of 2005 Haditha Massacre in Iraq Finally Published
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Photos of the mass killing by U.S. Marines have been kept hidden for decades, making the atrocity relatively unknown. Now The New Yorker has released 10 of them. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams After years of working with Iraqis whose relatives were killed by U.S. Marines in the 2005 Hadi
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JOHN KIRIAKOU: The Slide Into Authoritarianism
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The loss of civil liberties is almost always incremental. On a flight home from Greece, the author recently ran into an increasingly familiar and menacing problem. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News All of us who care about civil liberties, civil rights, human rights and freedom
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Hiding an Ugly Truth About Israel
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Jonathan Cook on Tony Greenstein's exposure of a glaring omission in a new biography of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to escape Auschwitz and an intense critic of the Zionist movement. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Tony Greenstein offers an excoriating account of how Guardian columnist
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Acclaimed Journalist Charged With 'Anti-Semitism'
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Mary Kostakidis, for years the face of television news in Australia as anchor of the SBS nightly broadcast, has been accused of supporting ethnic cleansing of Jews for two reteweets about Israel's war on Gaza, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News For retweeting two
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Caitlin Johnstone: Democrats' Mad Middle East Platform
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When you’re siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you’re as insanely hawkish as it gets. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. Celebrity progressive, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, at the Democratic National Convention on Mon
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Probing US Regime-Change in Pakistan & Bangladesh
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Jeffrey D. Sachs says the U.N. should investigate the charges that Imran Khan and Sheik Hasina have leveled against Washington. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams Two former leaders of major South Asian countries have reportedly accused the United States of covert regime change operations
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Andrew P. Napolitano on the Patriot Act's destruction of the Fourth Amendment wall between law enforcement and spying. By Andrew P. Napolitano Among the lesser-known holes in the U.S. Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforc
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Craig Murray: We Are the Bad Guys
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Those of us in the West must resist our own governing systems, or we are complicit. By Craig Murray CraigMurray.org.uk In Murder in Samarkand I describe how as a British ambassador, when I discovered the full extent of our complicity in torture in the War on Terror, I thought it must be a r
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There is little hope for any improvement of the U.S. rail system so long as it remains in the hands of the irresponsible and unaccountable Class I robber barons, writes Adam Barrington. By Adam Barrington Inequality.org The National Transportation Safety Board announced in June that the i
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What Is Behind England's Riots
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Is there a migration crisis in England? Yes, there is, says John Wight. And it's not the fault of the migrants. By John Wight Medium “Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman. Let no foreigner revile the Irish; he may be vilifying his own stock.” — Jame
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CN Condemns FBI Raid on CN Columnist's Home
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Consortium News strongly condemns the raid on the home of its columnist Scott Ritter by the F.B.l. on Thursday as a serious threat to press freedom. By Consortium News Consortium News condemns in the strongest terms the F.B.I. raid on the home of CN columnist Scott Ritter. Federal agent
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What the UN Chief Can Do for Gaza
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Mona Ali Khalil urges António Guterres to invoke Article 99 again. This time not to make exhortations, but to account for what has happened on and since Oct. 7 and chart a path to lasting peace. By Mona Ali Khalil PassBlue Secretary-General António Guterres has limited his role in the
on Aug 6
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Venezuela: As US Leaders Call Fraud, US Observers Endorse Results
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Western media appeared as eager as the U.S. government to undermine the elections in Venezuela and agitate for political strife, writes Alan MacLeod. By Alan MacLeod MintPress News Much to the chagrin of the U.S. government, socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro won a third successi
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