6 January 2025

A history of humiliation

After a history of U.S. bullying and humiliation — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — it can’t be assumed Moscow is bluffing when it warns of nuclear war.

4 January 2025

John Pilger: Afflictor of the powerful

During a lifetime of extraordinary journalism on both paper and the screen, John Pilger, who died one year ago on Monday, showed the world the suffering caused by US-led aggression in mostly poor nations that had the temerity to hinder Washington’s path to global dominance.

31 August 2024

Acclaimed journalist charged with ‘anti-semitism’

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 retweets about Israel’s war on Gaza, reports Joe Lauria.

9 July 2024

Biden: ‘I’m running the world’

The comment by the sitting U.S. president in Friday’s interview has been ignored by the mainstream, but its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race, writes Joe Lauria.

25 May 2024

ICJ orders Israel stop Rafah attack

The World Court on Friday ordered that Israel immediately halt its assault on the city of Rafah in Gaza after a request from South Africa, which brought genocide charges against Israel.

20 March 2024

Assange in plea deal talks

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 Assanges lawyers about a deal that could set the imprisoned publisher free.

26 January 2024

ICJ stops short of ordering ceasefire in Gaza. Genocide will continue

The ICJ agreed to put Israel on trial for genocide and ruled that Israels military shall not commit acts forbidden by Article 2 of the Genocide Convention, but stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its military operation in Gaza.

18 November 2023

McBride Trial: Defeat It looks like Im going to jail

Judge rules that he will instruct the jury that there is no aspect of duty that allows the accused to act in the public interest contrary to a lawful military order, reports Joe Lauria.

15 November 2023

David McBride's defence argues duty to nation supersedes military law

Whistleblower David McBrides lawyers argued on Day One of his trial that a soldiers duty is not just to follow his superiors orders, but to serve the entire nation. Joe Lauria reports.

4 March 2023

Western leaders privately say Ukraine cant win the war

The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defence pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.