With a “left press” like this, who needs fascist media?
Mark Crispin Miller It pains me to say it, but Caitlin Johnstone—whose work I used to champion ardently, defending her against the crypto-Stalinists at Counterpunch—is one of many “leftists”...
Consortium News deploys the CIA’s “conspiracy theory” meme
Mark Crispin Miller The late, great Robert Parry founded Consortium News in 1995, in response to “a crisis building in the U.S. news media,” whose allergy to inconvenient information...
Is Soleimani murder ‘beginning of the end’ of US imperialism?
Catte Black It’s increasingly clear that – short of QAnon’s wild idea that it’s all about engineering total US withdrawal from the Middle East – no coherent plan was...
Disbelief, Magic Realism and Doublethink Alive and Well in 2018
James O’Neill In the Lyrical Ballads, a collection of essays and poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the latter coined the phrase “the willing suspension of disbelief.”...
Hidden in Plain View in Belgrade
by Vladimir Golstein, August 3, 2018, via Consortium News Right across the street from my hotel, tucked behind tall office buildings, is the rather large Church of St. Mark....
Is Ukraine gearing up for full scale war in East?
by Gilbert Doctorow at Consortium News A new draft law adopted by the Ukrainian Parliament and awaiting Petro Poroshenko’s signature threatens to escalate the Ukrainian conflict into a full-blown...
The Kagans Are Back; Wars to Follow
by Robert Parry, for consortiumnews.com The neocon royalty Kagans are counting on Democrats and liberals to be the foot soldiers in the new neocon campaign to push Republicans and...
US Intel Vets issue statement disputing Russia Hacking Claims
from Consortium News As the hysteria about Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election grows, a key mystery is why U.S. intelligence would rely on “circumstantial evidence” when it...
UN Team Heard Claims of ‘Staged’ Chemical Attacks
A widely touted U.N. report accusing the Syrian government of two chlorine-gas attacks relied on shaky evidence and brushed aside witness testimony that claimed some incidents were staged, reports...
Trading Places: Neocons and Cockroaches
by Robert Parry at Consortium News Neocons want a new Cold War – all the better to pick the U.S. taxpayers’ pockets – but this reckless talk and war...
Reality Peeks Through in Ukraine
With corruption rampant and living standards falling, Ukraine may become the next failed state that 'benefited' from a neoconservative-driven 'regime change,' though the blame will always be placed elsewhere...
Media frantically re-shaping AlQaeda as the good guys
by Robert Parry via Consortium News The key sentence in The New York Times’ lead article about Russian airstrikes against Syrian rebel targets fell to the bottom of the...
“Does the US want Al Qaeda to take over Syria?”
by Robert Parry OffG says: Some may say Parry is here too forgiving of Obama, and it could certainly be said he over-credits him for “Syria’s 2013 agreement to...
Obama’s ‘G-1-plus-6′
As much as President Obama needs President Putin’s help on Syria, Iran and other global hotspots, he has fallen in line behind U.S. hardliners in seeking to ratchet up...
The MH-17 Propaganda War
By Greg Maybury When called to account for an apparent inaccuracy in a broadcast pinning the MH-17 shoot-down on Russian President Putin, Australia’s “60 Minutes” responded with insults and...
