They are all nouns. The F word can also be used as an adjective. They are all used as invectives. Today all these words are being overused. And misused, says Joe Lauria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5dk8fcAipA By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Despite the fact that there are wom| Consortium News
Ray McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Scott Ritter, Gerald Celente, Garland Nixon, Roger Waters (video) and Joe Lauria addressed a rally in Kingston, NY Saturday in defense of sanity in a world gone mad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT56YFvmje4 The views expressed| Consortium News
The Council met on Thursday to vote on an immediate ceasefire resolution in Gaza that the U.S. vetoed against the wishes of the other 14 Council members. ?????? By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News As it did five times before, the United States on Thursday afternoon once again defied the| Consortium News
The latest Presidential memo, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” is to be a preemptive war against those individuals and institutions which threaten Trump’s absolute grip on power. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report Fascists, historically, are surprisingly candid about…Read more →| Consortium News
At least 68 shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts have been flown on commercial passenger planes to Israel from Australia as recently as last month, leaked documents reveal, reports Peter Cronau. This Declassified Australia investigation is published in partnership with…Read more →| Consortium News
Israeli soldiers seized 447 volunteers as they boarded the flotilla of 40 boats with 500 people on the high seas on its way to Gaza. The flotilla organizers released this statement on Thursday morning: “The Global Sumud Flotilla reports that…Read more →| Consortium News
United States citizens must empower themselves to fight back against an increasingly authoritarian Trump administration as well as the Democratic wing of the uniparty, argues Ralph Nader. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report This interview is also available on podcast platforms and Rumble.…Read more →| Consortium News
Judge William Young found Trump acted illegally against Pro-Palestine students, calling the decision his most important in 30 years on the bench. “In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police,” the judge ruled. By Stephen Prager…Read more →| Consortium News
As the balance of power shifts in the Middle East, pressure from Israel and Saudi Arabia may spark a Lebanese civil war. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News The U.S. and Saudi Arabia are pushing Lebanon toward civil war. The…Read more →| Consortium News
Axios reported that the changes infuriated Arab officials involved in the negotiations, writes Dave DeCamp. By Dave DeCamp Antiwar.com The Gaza ceasefire proposal released by the White House on Monday included significant changes that were requested by Israeli Prime Minister…Read more →| Consortium News
A survey of 1,313 registered voters found that for the first time more respondents said they support Palestinians than Israelis, reports Julia Conley. By Julia Conley Common Dreams As Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and starvation policy in the exclave nears the beginning…Read more →| Consortium News
The next phase of Israel’s attempt to greatly expand its territory is underway with U.S. backing, writes Stefan Moore. By Stefan Moore Special to Consortium News When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recently asked on Israeli i24 TV whether he…Read more →| Consortium News
Since 2014 when the BJP came to power, there has been increased repression of protests, particularly those led by Muslims or aligned with a cause like Gaza, writes Betwa Sharma. By Betwa Sharma in Delhi, India Special to Consortium News While accepting the Orizzonti best director award| Consortium News
America’s rebranded Department of War promises a new era of endless death and violence, says William Astore. By William Astore TomDispatch A rebranded Department of War, President Donald Trump recently suggested, simply sounds tougher (and more Trumpian) than “defense.” As is his wont,| Consortium News
Discourse following the Charlie Kirk assassination has left little to be hopeful about, writes Nolan Higdon. By Nolan Higdon Substack On Wednesday, the shocking news reverberated across the United States: Charlie Kirk, right-wing influencer and Trump ally, had been shot dead while holdin| Consortium News
The passing of former Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has roused praise from the West though opinions are mixed among the people he served but one point missing in the obits was the U.S. promise made to him (and broken) not to exploit Moscow’s retreat, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern| Consortium News
The U.N. is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limit| Consortium News
Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. airman who burned himself to death to protest the Gaza genocide, was awarded the 2024 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence in memoriam on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDc74tsuRQA Among the speakers on Saturday in Washington were Max Blumenthal, Scot| Consortium News
The U.S. military strike that killed 11 people on a boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2 is an act of murder and a violation of international law, experts say. By Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg Truthout Experts are condemning the U.S. military strike that killed 11 people on a boat in the Caribbe| Consortium News
Trump "willfully" violated the Posse Comitatus Act and his deployment of federal troops to L.A. was illegal, a federal judge ruled, Marjorie Cohn reports. By Marjorie Cohn Truthout Donald Trump appears fixated on “creating a national police force with the president as its chief,” a U.S. fe| Consortium News
Information uncovered by plaintiffs undermined F.B.I.’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaeda hijackers. By Tim Golden ProPublica More than two decades after victims of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the government of Saudi Arabia responsible| Consortium News
Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar. By M.K. Bhadrakumar Indian Punchline There is extremely alarming news about the situation around Iran. In consult| Consortium News
Volume 30, Number 246 — Thursday, September 4, 2025| Consortium News
What government lacks all sense of natural rights, humanitarian dignity and due process? America's, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano. By Andrew P. Napolitano While the public’s attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without warrants; presidentially-imposed sa| Consortium News
U.S. plan proposes to replace Palestinians in Gaza with projects including Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands and Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zones. By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams The White House is "circulating" a plan to transform a substantially depopulated Gaza into U.S. President Don| Consortium News
The barrage of Israeli lies amplified and given credibility by the Western press violates a fundamental tenet of journalism, the duty to transmit the truth to the viewer or reader. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost There are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press c| Consortium News
While Modi has deepened ties with the U.S., he's been careful to preserve India’s strategic autonomy, stopping short of aligning too closely with Washington, writes Betwa Sharma. By Betwa Sharma in Delhi, India Special to Consortium News It has become the stuff of legend: when the| Consortium News
Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Jack Cinamon challenge why Israel’s largest arms firm and a company mired in a corruption scandal are even being considered for training British troops. By Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Jack Cinamon Declassified UK Britain’s Ministry of Defence mig| Consortium News
The passivity — and complicity — of Global North liberals and social democrats has paved the way for the global rise of the far-right of a special type. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Samar Abu Elouf, who won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year for the picture| Consortium News
The controversial appointment of Josh Smith as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons has drawn ire from employees while many inmates are supportive. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News President Donald Trump in early June did something that no president in American history had| Consortium News
Mara Kronenfeld, executive director of UNRWA USA exposes Israel's war on the U.N. and how the destruction of UNWRA infrastructure is an attack on all civilian life in Gaza. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report For millions of Palestinians, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) i| Consortium News
The political and media establishment has finally begun to acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but this shift remains hollow until those complicit in Israel’s genocide are truly exposed. By Anthony Hayward Declassified UK Some 21 months into Israel’s genocide, Palestinian suffering is only| Consortium News
Dozens of small civilian vessels carrying activists, parliamentarians, doctors and trade unionists, along with humanitarian cargo, are preparing for departure. By Peoples Dispatch In July 2025, a new international maritime initiative was launched: the Global Sumud Flotilla. It was formed| Consortium News
The very act of the U.N. Secretary General accepting a Palestinian membership application was an acknowledgement from the U.N. that Palestine is already a state, since only states can apply, wrote Joe Lauria. As a U.N. observer state, Palestine became a member of the International Criminal Court| Consortium News
CN editor Joe Lauria tells RT News the significance of the recent flurry of high-level diplomatic activity on Ukraine may be overblown and that tangible progress depends on Donald Trump's shaky resolve. https://youtu.be/CHb0MuyO5mo RT: And let's discuss this live with Joe Lauria, editor in chief o| Consortium News
Russia's deputy representative to the United Nations told the Security Council on Sunday that Israel is putting "Palestinians in ghettos" and seeks their "complete annihilation." ?????????? By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Dmitry A. Polyanskiy, Russia's deputy permanent representative| Consortium News
A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Since the firs| Consortium News
The conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is the test in the Zionist lobby case against Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis for her Gaza reporting and the outcome will be of great international significance, says Joe Lauria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY360nnv-wY The above is an add| Consortium News
Mary Kostakidis was in federal court in Adelaide on Tuesday defending herself against racial discrimination charges for her reporting and commentary on Gaza, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Mary Kostakidis, the Australian journalist accused in a civil action b| Consortium News
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On Aug. 9, 1945, as Japan’s high command met on surrender plans, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki killing 74,000 people instantly, a decision that's never been adequately explained, writes John LaForge. By John LaForge “The rights and wrongs of Hiroshima are debatable,” Telford T| Consortium News
An all-Christian American crew used the steeple of Japan’s most prominent Christian church as the target for an act of unspeakable barbarism, writes Gary G. Kohls. What Imperial Japan Couldn't Do in 250 Years American Christians Did in Nine Seconds By Gary G. Kohls Eighty years ago today, a| Consortium News
Author and attorney Jennifer Harbury describes the "Silent Holocaust" in Guatemala and its links to the genocide in Gaza, using "any methods of barbarity necessary." By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report Known as the “Silent Holocaust,” the genocide in Guatemala is seldom mentioned in modern| Consortium News
Taking a cue from the Declaration of Independence, M. Reza Behnam submits facts "to a candid world" that impel the dissolution of a destructive liaison. By M. Reza Behnam Z-Network It has become abundantly clear that after 250 years, a second American revolution is necessary. Thomas Jeffer| Consortium News
Now the countless images of starving Palestinians — men, women, children, ordinary people, doctors, nurses, aid workers — have pushed matters to the point we can now call genocide by its proper name. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost Correct nomenclature, as I have long argued, is essential for o| Consortium News
Mick Hall covers the upgrade of the U.S. intelligence agency's Wellington operation to "counter the CCP" as another milestone of U.S. meddling in the Asia-Pacific. By Mick Hall in Whangarei, New Zealand Special to Consortium News The opening of a Federal Bureau of Investigations standal| Consortium News
Palestinians and all supporters of justice worldwide should urgently seize this critical opportunity to decisively defeat the Israeli Hasbara for good, writes Ramzy Baroud. By Ramzy Baroud Common Dreams I rarely visit Rome without stopping at the Campo de' Fiori to pay homage to Giordano| Consortium News
This outcome adds to a growing list of union-led actions across Europe in solidarity with Palestine and against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Ana Vracar reports. By Ana Vracar Peoples Dispatch Italian port workers secured a significant win last week in their ongoing resistance to milit| Consortium News
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target — China. By John Pilger When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, t| Consortium News
The first atomic bomb burst at 8:15 a.m. over the city of Hiroshima leaving its impression on a watch that disappeared 44 years later, reports Joe Lauria. On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Joe Lauria retells the story of Akiko Mikamo and her father Shinji, who was just 15| Consortium News
The U.K. has spent decades trying to subvert Iran’s government, but also secretly sold them chemical weapons and spied on opposition activists, reports Martin Williams. By Martin Williams Declassified UK As bombs fell on Iran last month, the U.K. government claimed it had “not partici| Consortium News
With his talk about providing ballistic missiles to Ukraine, Friedrich Merz, Germany's warmongering new chancellor, is toying with a tripwire for Moscow. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost Friedrich Merz has been in office as Germany’s new chancellor a matter of weeks, and already he has the Ge| Consortium News
The Australian government whistleblower is headed back to jail with no end of incarceration in sight. He is serving nearly six years for leaking documents to the media exposing Australian war crimes in Afghanistan, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria in Canberra, Australia Special to Consor| Consortium News
British police have given the Crown Prosecution Service the file on journalist Richard Medhurst in a test of how far Western governments will go to continue defending Israel's monstrous atrocities in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News British journalist Rich| Consortium News
A rare fracture among Republicans helped stall what would have been the most extreme escalation yet of anti-BDS laws in the U.S., Robert Inlakesh reports. By Robert Inlakesh MintPress News A sweeping pro-Israel bill backed by Republican leadership and American Israel Public Affairs Committe| Consortium News
This ethnic cleansing plan is being presented as a humanitarian solution to tragic circumstances, when in reality the U.S. and Israel purposely destroyed the enclave. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. Grinning like the cat that ate the c| Consortium News
Abba Solomon commends Peter Beinart’s radical re-conception of Jewish life in Palestine in his new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. By Abba Solomon Z Network The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then re| Consortium News
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