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The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden’s new wars
The old wars are over. Welcome to Biden’s new wars Biden begins his first address to the UN General Assemble with a lie: “…the U.S. is not at war.” — Joe Lauria “Joe Biden, in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, told world leaders Tuesday: ‘I stand here today, for the first time […]
Joe Lauria on the Alleged Russian Hack
Joe Lauria on the Alleged Russian Hack The editor-in-chief was interviewed on the radio program By Any Means Necessary about the alleged Russian hacking of U.S. government computers. Listen to it here. (16 minutes) Typical Russiagate articles in the corporate press follow this pattern: Russia is specifically blamed for something, like a hack or “undermining American democracy,” […]
McCarthyism Down Under
McCarthyism Down Under UPDATE: 5 Eyes media have been amplifying the story. BBC quoted Sydney Morning Herald saying, “No allegations had been proven.” The New York Times, which rarely reports on Australia, ran a staff-written story, writes Joe Lauria. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison held a somber press conference on Friday to announce that the Australian Federal Police […]
Ten Minutes to War
Ten Minutes to War Donald Trump pulled back from igniting a potentially disastrous war in the Persian Gulf on Thursday night with just 10 minutes to spare, but the super-hawks he surrounded himself with will probably try again, writes Joe Lauria. The commander-in-chief acted like one, if only briefly, on Thursday night when he said […]
Tide of Public Opinion is Turning in Assange’s Favor
Tide of Public Opinion is Turning in Assange’s Favor Corporate media & some politicos who opposed Assange after the 2016 election have radically changed their tune, favorably influencing public opinion after the Espionage Act indictment of the WikiLeak‘s founder, reports Joe Lauria. The indictment of Julian Assange under the Espionage Act has profoundly affected press coverage […]
Twitter Restricts Account of Julian Assange’s Mother
Twitter Restricts Account of Julian Assange’s Mother The social media giant has given no reason to Christine Assange who had turned to Twitter to campaign for the liberty of her son. The Twitter account of Christine Assange, the mother of the arbitrarily detained founder of WikiLeaks, has been restricted, she told Consortium News on Tuesday. “My Twitter […]
Media Serve the Governors, Not the Governed
Media Serve the Governors, Not the Governed Since 2006 WikiLeaks has been censuring governments with governments’ own words. It has been doing the job the U.S. constitution intended the press to do, says Joe Lauria. In his 1971 opinion in the Pentagon Papers case, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote: “In the First Amendment the Founding […]
How Russia-gate Rationalized Censorship
How Russia-gate Rationalized Censorship At the end of October 2017, I wrote an article for Consortium News about the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign paying for unvetted opposition research that became the basis for much of the disputed story about Russia allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Hillary Clinton speaking […]
The New York Times As Judge And Jury
The New York Times As Judge And Jury Seeking to maintain its credibility, The New York Times dispenses with the criminal justice system and basic principles of journalism to weigh in again on Russia-gate… We’ve seen it before: a newspaper and individual reporters get a story horribly wrong but instead of correcting it they double […]
Ellsberg Says Assange, as a Journalist, Can’t Be Tried Under Espionage Act
Ellsberg Says Assange, as a Journalist, Can’t Be Tried Under Espionage Act In an interview with Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says the Espionage Act, under which he was indicted, cannot apply to Julian Assange because he is a journalist. Speaking during an online vigil for Assange organized by Unity4J.com, […]
An Online Vigil in Defense of Julian Assange With Daniel Ellsberg, Craig Murray, Bill Binney and Ray McGovern
An Online Vigil in Defense of Julian Assange With Daniel Ellsberg, Craig Murray, Bill Binney and Ray McGovern Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, on Saturday helped moderate a daylong chain of interviews in defense of WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange, including a discussion with Daniel Ellsberg. A #Unity4J online vigil was held on Saturday […]
How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship Special Report: The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria. At the end of October, I wrote an article for Consortiumnews about the Democratic National Committee and Hillary […]
HuffPo Yanks Article On Russiagate Hysteria By Award Winning Journalist Joe Lauria – So Here It Is
HuffPo Yanks Article On Russiagate Hysteria By Award Winning Journalist Joe Lauria – So Here It Is Award winning journalist and UN correspondent of 25 years, Joe Lauria, penned an outstanding article on the origins of “Russiagate” which he published to the liberal Huffington Post this week. 24 hours later, HuffPo yanked the article – leaving a […]
Galveston’s BioLab Amid Global Warming
Galveston’s BioLab Amid Global Warming Ken Kramer grew up in the 1950s and 1960s in Houston. As a child he spent a lot of time on Galveston, an island about 50 miles away in the Gulf of Mexico. Kramer experienced Hurricane Carla in 1961 with gusts of 175 mph and a storm surge of 22 […]
The Three Types of US ‘Regime Change’
January 22, 2022
The Three Types of US ‘Regime Change’ When the U.S. overthrows a foreign government it either works from the top down, the bottom up, or through military invasion, writes Joe Lauria. Chilean presidential palace during U.S.-backed coup, Sept. 11, 1973. (Library of the Chilean National Congress/Wikipedia) Throughout the long, documented history of the United States illegally overthrowing […]
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