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Daniel Duggan is facing the same extreme tactics applied to Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Daniel Hale and others caught in Washington's "national security" dragnet. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News Many of us who write for and read Consortium News are worried about Julian Assa

At the time, 50 years ago on Monday, the coup was seen as not just an attack on the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, writes Vijay Prashad. It was an attack on the Third World. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Imagine this scenario. On Sept. 11, 197

African states are one-by-one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. They are saying "non" to France's longtime domination of African financial, political, economic and security affairs. By Pepe Escobar The Cradle  By adding two new African member-states to its roster, last months'

Ahead of the G20 summit in New Delhi this weekend, M.K. Bhadrakumar says an event conceived in the world of yesterday, before the new cold war came roaring in, has lost significance. By  M.K. Bhadrakumar Indian Punchline India's Modi government is not perplexed by the decisions of Russian P

Contrary to its public reputation, Tony Platt says the campus where he became an anti-war activist in the 1960s has always been one of academia’s premier beneficiaries of militarism. By Tony Platt Original to ScheerPost This is an excerpt from Tony Platt’s new book “The Scandal of Cal: Land

American society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and the ruthless exploitat

All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere, writes Patrick Lawrence in this excerpt from his new book, Journalists and Their Shadows. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Journalists and Their Shadows is out now from Clarity Press.

With corporate media largely abandoning the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Consortium News has been in the forefront of chronicling his plight. But we can’t do it without you.  Except for a brief moment after his dramatic arrest in 2019, and a joint statement last year, the mainstream media has

The MPs will face obstinate views about Assange entrenched in the U.S. political establishment, with two days to educate Congressional, State and Justice officials about the threat to the Constitution and a free press, reports Joe Lauria.  By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Six me

The ouster of the hopelessly corrupt Ali Bongo represents a particularly sharp rebuke of Obama, who groomed the Gabonese autocrat as one of his closest allies on the continent, writes Max Blumenthal. By Max Blumenthal The Grayzone When a military junta arrested President Ali Bongo Ondi