The World This Week looks at Trump’s new threats against Iran, his tendency to chicken out, and a tribute to the great Michael Parenti, with Joe Lauria and Patrick Lawrence.
Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill.
India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this, industrial policy must address the issues of dependence and inequality.
It’s certainly not diplomacy and it’s not coercion. It is war conducted by economic means, all designed to produce an economic crisis and social unrest leading to a fall of the government.
Stephanie Martin repeats the warnings of philosopher Hannah Arendt in the wake of the many lies told by authorities about ICE shootings in Minneapolis.
The NYC mayor supports dissident leader Umar Khalid, jailed five years without bail in a deliberate attempt to turn the process into punishment, writes Betwa Sharma.
Yanis Varoufakis discusses how, as U.S. hegemony dwindles, Trump and his international allies use the sham “Board of Peace” to attempt to maintain some grip on world power.
The U.S. has set its sights on Greenland due to its mineral wealth and strategic location. But its people — the Kalaallit — are an afterthought in Washington’s machinations.
Trump’s “Board of Peace” is being designed as an alliance like the “coalition of the willing” that fraudulently tried to legitimize the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writes Thalif Deen.
The Trump-McMahon education edict: You will cooperate as we destroy the tradition of intellectual exploration that has endured for a thousand years — or we will starve you.
It shouldn’t fall to armed Americans to take on the White House militia because the governor can’t use the National Guard to force ICE out of Minnesota, writes Joe Lauria.
We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018.
It’s stunning how much influence this ideology has had throughout our society’s culture and institutions. It’s almost magical.
Israeli culture mimics the genocidal mindset of Nazi-era Germans who once targeted them, explains Lawrence Davidson.
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in over two decades, writes Julia Norman. Detention facilities lack climate control, ventilation, running water, sanitation, medical services.
Michael Parenti, who died on Saturday at 92, wrote for Consortium News what appears to be his last article on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI.
We break down Davos after Trump’s Greenland retreat, Mark Carney’s speech, Zelenksy berating the Europeans and Sy Hersh channeling Ukraine War myths. Meanwhile, Australia outlaws criticism of Israel. 8 pm EST tonight, Saturday.
Sy Hersh’s new article “Putin’s Long War,” is bad for peace. When a reporter becomes hostage to his sources, the results are little more than weaponized propaganda.
The U.S. government, like authoritarians throughout history, is seeking to silence the speech it hates and fears, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.
The Israel lobby can cry about Jewish Australians feeling threatened by every pro-Palestine group and then ASIO will ban the group and cage anyone associating with it for up to 15 years.
What is the impact that the Albanese government’s Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Act 2026 will have on the ability of ordinary Australians to protest? Anne Twomey examines the provisions.
