Patrick Lawrence: Free Speech & Its Enemies

Europe is convulsing as its “centrist” authoritarians impose an unprecedented regime of suppression of speech, but the mainstream media in America is silent about it. By Patrick Lawrence The Floutist This is the first of two essays The Floutist publishes, one glancing back and the other f

PATRICK LAWRENCE: New Year's Notes on Purported Leaders

It is no use hoping for any alteration in the collective West’s course so long as today's "purported leaders" remain in office.  By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News “Heaven is high and the emperor is far away.” So did Chinese peasants celebrate their distance from the Forbidden

PATRICK LAWRENCE: After the First 70,669 Deaths

I take the 15 victims at Bondi Beach and divide them by the 71,000 deaths in Gaza as of this writing. I get a fraction of 0.0002143. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News CN at 30 I read in a BBC report that the victims of the Dec. 14 shooting at Bondi Beach, along the coast a f

PATRICK LAWRENCE: What? Peace in Our Time?

The Trump regime's 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That's essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News There are any number of reasons you may no

CN at 30: The Knowledge & Experience of Insiders

Consortium News is comprised of former insiders at senior levels of intelligence and mainstream media who broke with the establishment to share their unique insights about the world with our readers. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News CN at 30 What distinguishes Consortium New

Patrick Lawrence: The ‘Post–9/11 Method’

Ultra-Zionist Minister Ben–Givr wants the Zionist state to kill Palestinian prisoners of war. But there is a straight line between Washington’s post–9/11 abuses of international law and the death penalty vote in the Knesset last Monday. By Patrick Lawrence  ScheerPost Maybe you saw the v

WATCH: Our 30th Birthday Celebration

Consortium News turned 30 years old Saturday. Robert Parry founded the first independent, online news publication in the U.S. on Nov. 15, 1995. We're celebrating 3 decades of bringing you news others won't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZxNTiekLGU&t=3m29s Watch the replay of our Saturday night

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump Dead-Ends Putin

For a good long time what's been happening in Ukraine is nothing more than postwar gore. If you have lost a war but cannot admit it, you are playing the old game of pretend. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have spoken by telephone nu

Our Coverage of the Ukraine War

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 war today. Help us to continue our coverage. On Feb. 23, 2015, Robert Parry, the late founder of this website, warned that a U.S.-backed coup in Kiev and

US Hegemony and Its Perils