Russia at a Crossroads
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/03/russia-at-a-crossroads/Moscow’s military campaign under Putin’s leadership has focused on avoiding escalation, says John Wight. But Ukraine’s drone strike deep into Russian territory is a gauntlet thrown down. By John Wight Special to Consortium News Russian President Vladimir Putin now finds…
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Russia at a Crossroads
Moscow's military campaign under Putin's leadership has focused on avoiding escalation, says John Wight. But Ukraine’s drone strike deep into Russian territory is a gauntlet thrown down.
By John Wight
Special to Consortium News
Russian President Vladimir Putin now finds himself at a monumen
Elias Rodriguez’s Murderous Gift to Israel
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/23/elias-rodriguezs-murderous-gift-to-israel/The barbarism of the live-streamed genocide in Gaza has inflicted moral injury on a scale untold, says John Wight. This is how Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and this abhorrent double murder should be understood. By John Wight Special to Consortium News…
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Elias Rodriguez's Murderous Gift to Israel
The barbarism of the live-streamed genocide in Gaza has inflicted moral injury on a scale untold, says John Wight. This is how Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation and this abhorrent double murder should be understood.
By John Wight
Special to Consortium News
Days after the deed, we can only bu
Exterminating Israel’s Helots
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/09/exterminating-israels-helots/Palestinians are today’s Helots to Israel’s Sparta, condemned to be trampled on. When the response to genocide is more genocide, you are what you claim to be against. Exterminating children as the world looks on results, writes John Wight. By…
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Exterminating Israel's Helots
Palestinians are today's Helots to Israel’s Sparta, condemned to be trampled on. When the response to genocide is more genocide, you are what you claim to be against. Exterminating children as the world looks on results, writes John Wight.
By John Wight
Special to Consortium News
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Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome
In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago.
By John Wight
Special to Consortium News
The ancient world can teach us much, if we only let it. One of its key lessons is that mass migration is
Ukraine & Revolution
For rulers, the most dangerous of all things is a still-armed soldier who starts to reflect, says John Wight.
By John Wight
Medium
The real enemy of any government or regime, in the last analysis, is its own people. They are who rulers fear most.
That is accordingly why so much effort
Revisiting the October Revolution
Given recent articles and books on the Bolshevik Revolution, which began Oct. 24, 1917 (Julian), it's a struggle on the level of ideas that continues well into the 21st century, says John Wight.
By John Wight
Medium
To its adherents, the Russian Revolution of October 1917 sta
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