Crowd waving Hezbollah and Lebanese flags during Hassan Nasrallah’s speech in Beirut in November 2023. (Hassan Ghaedi, Fars Media Corporation, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) By As`ad AbuKhalil / Consortium News As soon as the war in Gaza broke after the Al-Aqsa Deluge last Oct. 7, Hezbollah faced a fateful decision: should it hold back […]
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Ray McGovern: Conditioning Americans for War With Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in August during a video meeting with government members. (President of Russia) By Ray McGovern / Consortium News As the drums beat louder and louder about alleged threats from Russia, the Biden administration today blew perilous new life into the debunked and disgraced Russiagate disinformation operation. Russiagate seems too good […]
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Scott Ritter: On a Highway to Hell
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John Kiriakou: The Slide Into Authoritarianism
Heathrow Airport in London, Terminal 5 – International Arrivals. (Lewis Clarke, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By John Kiriakou / Consortium News All of us who care about civil liberties, civil rights, human rights and freedom of the press have had a front-row seat lately to a slide toward what can only be described as authoritarianism. […]
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Scott Ritter: A Farewell to Truth
Lockheed U-2C Dragon Lady at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska. (Kelly Michals, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) By Scott Ritter / Consortium News The execution of a search warrant on my residence by the F.B.I. on Aug. 7 was not my first run-in with America’s premier law enforcement agency. In the […]
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Patrick Lawrence: James Baldwin at 100
James Baldwin mural by Rico Gatson at the 167th Street subway station, New York. (Kathy Drasky/Flickr, CC BY 2.0) By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News James Baldwin would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 2, had he lived so long. He didn’t: He died young. He was but 63 on Dec. 1, 1987, the day he […]
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SCOTT RITTER: The Murder of Others
An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the U.S. dropped a second nuclear bomb on the country on Aug. 9, 1945. (Hiromichi Matsuda, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) By Scott Ritter / Consortium News On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman, who had taken over the presidency in April 1945 following the death […]
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CN Condemns FBI Raid on CN Columnist’s Home
FBI SWAT team members next to a photo of Scott Ritter. Photos from Wikimedia Commons collaged by ScheerPost staff writer. By Consortium News Consortium News condemns in the strongest terms the F.B.I. raid on the home of CN columnist Scott Ritter. Federal agents removed Ritter’s electronic equipment and numerous boxes of paper files from his Albany, […]
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John Kiriakou: The CIA & the 9/11 Plea Deals
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Scott Ritter: Voting Against Nuclear War
Nuclear weapon test Dakota, June 26, 1956. (U.S. Dept. of Energy/Wikimedia Commons) By Scott Ritter / Substack As America wrestles with the question of who will emerge victorious from the three-ring circus that is the 2024 Presidential election, there is increasing talk about the existential nature of this election and the role played by the two […]