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No other institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy so effectively. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is

It is criminal that the IMF would impose strict austerity when the agricultural infrastructure is utterly destroyed, writes Vijay Prashad. Pakistan is suffering from “climate apartheid.”   By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Calamities are familiar to the people

Victims of British imperialism explain why they are far from mourning the death of the U.K. monarch.    By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams As millions of Britons and admirers the world over mourned Queen Elizabeth II's death Thursday, others — especially in nations formerly colonized by the Bri

In advance of the next U.N. climate change gathering, which takes place in Egypt in November, Vijay Prashad outlines how governments can live up to their “common but differentiated responsibilities” to stave off catastrophe. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research I

Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters, writes Patrick Lawrence. By Patrick Lawrence ScheerPost I have never gotten over a story The New York Times ran in its Sunday magazine back in May 2016. Maybe you will remember the occasion. It was a lengthy profi

There is a time-honored and destructive tradition in the U.S. of citizens approaching their political causes with blind faith.    By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News I am seeing many fewer blue-and-yellow flags in evidence during wanderings in my corner of New England. Thank good

Governmental bodies in the U.S. aren't meant to be owned by those who lead them.  They aren't possessions to be disposed of according to the will and inclination of the governors, writes Michael Brenner. By Michael Brenner The abuse of executive powers has become so commonplace as to be

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PayPal, a British government official, and now NewsGuard have all targeted Consortium News this year for challenging official narratives. Help us to fight back. The ink was barely dry on the the Bill of Rights, when John Adams, the second U.S. president, pushed through four Sedition Acts crimina

There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com There is a fatal disconnect between a political system t