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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

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? 

CN has been ahead of the news on Ukraine, from reporting the coup and warning of nuclear catastrophe as far back as 2015, to news of the current phase of the conflict. Help us to continue our coverage. On Feb. 23, 2015, Robert Parry, the late founder of this website, warned that a U.S.-backed

Consortium News has won the first annual Julian Assange International Award at a ceremony in the Netherlands on Saturday.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fabNukSQ590 The Dutch Independent Journalist Association (VVJ) has awarded Consortium News the first Julian Assange International Award a

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

Robert Parry was already serving a 12-year jail term when he was handed a further sentence today.

The oldest U.S., independent, news organization online is in its 28th year of upsetting powerful people, thanks to our readers's persistent support.   It takes two things to run a successful independent media operation:  guts and funding.  We provide the guts and our very generous readers hav

The aggression of Kiev’s coup regime against ethnic Russians in Ukraine, which led to Russia’s intervention, has been airbrushed from history.   The brutality of these neo-Nazis surfaced again on May 2 when right-wing toughs in Odessa attacked an encampment of ethnic Russian protesters driving them into a trade union building which was then set…

 The whitewashing of the historical context for the war in Ukraine has resulted in a profoundly embarrassing episode for the United States embassy in Prague.  An Aug.