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Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad cover anti-French developments in the Sahel. By Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad Peoples Dispatch In Bamako, Mali, on Sept. 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly

Natalia Marques responds to a property developer's recent call for more "pain" in the U.S. economy by highlighting what happened after pandemic-era aid ended. By Natalia Marques Peoples Dispatch Millionaire real estate company head Tim Gurner went viral  (not for the first time) for his ba

Mustafa al-Trabelsi, who was killed by the flooding, left behind a poem that is being read by refugees from his city and Libyans across the country, writes Vijay Prashad.  By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Three days before the Abu Mansur and Al Bilad dams co

In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror, writes Michael Brenner. By Michael Brenner Special to Consortium News The United States is be

Ukraine is being destroyed by U.S. arrogance, proving again Henry Kissinger’s adage that to be America’s enemy is dangerous, while to be its friend is fatal. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams During the disastrous Vietnam War, it was said that the U.S. government treated the public like a m

Get a paperback copy of American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader as a thank you for a contribution to Consortium News' 2023 Fall Fund Drive. American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader is a compilation of the writings of the late Robert Parry, the founder of this site in 1995.  It provides an illu

Peter Oborne contrasts the free-press cause celebre that arose after the British phone-hacking scandal to the silence and hostility engulfing the far more consequential case of the WikiLeaks publisher. By Peter Oborne Declassified UK Just over ten years ago, Lord Justice Leveson proposed t

On Feb. 23, 2015, Robert Parry, the late founder of the CN website, warned that a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev and a war launched against the coup’s resisters in Ukraine’s east threatened the world with nuclear holocaust. It seemed an extreme position to take then. But does anyone think so today? 

Zelensky’s visit to the White House this week comes at a defining moment, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, as the war in Ukraine has intertwined with the problems of the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan. By  M.K. Bhadrakumar Indian Punchline The ground war in Ukraine has run its course, a new phase i

NATO’s military 2011 intervention, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Mua