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Consortium News' Patrick Lawrence will be daily covering the U.S. House inquiry into the impeachment of President Joe Biden. This is his first report. For many weeks the Democratic Party and the media that cravenly serve it have dismissed House investigations into the Biden family’s potentia

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies highlight a few of the numerous speeches urging diplomatic resolution of the war at this year's General Assembly. By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Common Dreams As it did last year, the 2023 United Nations General Assembly debated the role

The media corporations now publicly reviling the influential social critic are cashing in on him again, writes Jonathan Cook. This time by bringing down the very celeb they built up. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net There are times when we would all be best advised to keep quiet and wait

Thomas G. Weiss says the U.N.'s highest priority should be reinforcing the system's crumbling foundations. By Thomas G. Weiss PassBlue  Parachuting into the frenzy of Manhattan’s East Side last week exposed the usual traffic snarls and not-so diplomatic cacophony about the United Nations.

Vijay Prashad challenges the right of two old colonial powers to lord over present-day geopolitics. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research At its 15th summit in August, the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) group adopted the Johannesburg II Declaration

John Kiriakou, who blew the whistle on the C.I.A.'s global torture program, reflects on the impunity surrounding the U.S. leaders who authorized crimes against humanity and left Sept. 11 defendants' trials in limbo. By John Kiriakou ScheerPost When I joined the C.I.A. in January 1990, I

Silence surrounded the atrocities of Mahamat Deby's military government, which last year killed at least 128 people during country-wide pro-democracy, anti-French protests, Pavan Kulkarni reports. By Pavan Kulkarni Peoples Dispatch The killings and arrests of pro-democracy, anti-French pro

Sean Penn — who is now plugging his new Zelensky movie — says it's cowardly not to risk the life of every terrestrial organism on earth to achieve U.S. military objectives. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading of this article. During a recent appearance

Exploiting a "trade finance" loophole, the bank dumped an estimated $3.7 billion into oil and gas projects in 2022, finds an analysis by the German research group Urgewald. By Jake Johnson Common Dreams A recent analysis by the German nonprofit Urgewald estimated that the World Bank spent n

As the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden ramps up, "Burisma Holdings" might well become a U.S. household name. Consortium News has been on the story for nine years.  And we plan on staying on it as a possible impeachment of Joe Biden approaches.  Help us to provide coverage as we learn more ab