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Remaining Silent If we can’t curb the violence of our own governments, what sense does it make to condemn the violent reactions of the states or movements they attack? asks Jean Bricmont. By Jean Bricmont Special to Consortium News I am neither… Read more →

Families Demand Answers on Israel Killing UK Citizens A U.K. Coroner’s Court has been asked to investigate Israel’s massacre of Gaza aid workers in 2024 and to review surveillance tapes held by Britain’s military, reports John McEvoy. By John McEvoy Declassified UK A pre-inquest review opened today into… Read more →

Jonathan Cook: Media Can Make Us Believe Anything Why do billionaires buy up newspapers? Because by owning everything – especially media – they can mould our minds through sustained plot engineering, writes Jonathan Cook. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net The current narrative of “beloved king shocked by claim he said… Read more →

Jeffrey Sachs: Stop Mad King Donald’s Iran War The war with Iran is Trump’s folly but Congress’s disgrace for not stopping it. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams Dear Members of Congress, In truly deranged remarks to world leaders at the U.N., Donald Trump declared that “I have a… Read more →

Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen Recognition of Ansar Allah as Yemen’s legitimate interim or transitional government would be a vital step towards Yemen’s desperate need for peace and self-determination, argue Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.  By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Common Dreams The… Read more →

Defiant Iran Responds to Trump Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Donald Trump Iran will never stop resisting U.S. terror. A day after Donald Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran, the Islamic Republic’s president told Trump from the same U.N. General Assembly podium that he “must know… Read more →

What Lavrov Told the UN Security Council The Russian foreign minister today laid out the facts leading to the war in Ukraine, making the West cover its ears and Ukraine to cover itself in shame. The following is the transcript of remarks delivered to the U.N. Security… Read more →

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ICE Is Disappearing People Experts argue that removing ICE detainees from U.S. government registers amounts to “disappearing” them in the manner of a typical dictatorship.   By Brad Reed Common Dreams Critics reacted with horror to a report detailing how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has abruptly… Read more →

Trump’s Unconscionable UN Rant Donald Trump threatened Iran with annihilation from the seat of diplomacy on the East River Tuesday and then dismissed the real threats of AI as a hoax in a speech that exhibited  questionable mental balance, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe… Read more →