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VIPS MEMO: Arms Control — Toward Lasting Peace consortiumnews.com/2025/05/08/v... At the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis, the Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity issue this memorandum calling for nuclear arms control leading to lasting peace.

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VIPS MEMO: Arms Control — Toward Lasting Peace consortiumnews.com/2025/05/08/v... At the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe over the Nazis, the Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity issue this memorandum calling for nuclear arms control leading to lasting peace.

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‘Gideon’s Chariots’ Aim to Finalize the Genocide consortiumnews.com/2025/05/07/g... Having gotten away with so many atrocities while the international community looks away, Israel just unveiled the latest escalation of its illegal collective punishment of Gazans, writes Abby Zimet.

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At ICJ, Only US & Hungary Back Israel Starving Gaza consortiumnews.com/2025/05/07/a... Thirty-seven states, the U.N. and international NGOs all condemned Israel’s denial of aid to the starving people of Gaza at the International Court of Justice last week, Marjorie Cohn reports.

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Jonathan Cook: Shilling for Israel’s Genocide consortiumnews.com/2025/05/07/j... These shills are as morally culpable as the court historians who in 1930s Germany denounced those who opposed the extermination of Jews, Romanies, Communists, the disabled and gays as anti-Aryan racists.

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Patrick Lawrence: Wanderers & Seekers consortiumnews.com/2025/05/06/p... In this fourth and final part of his series on Germany, the author writes of the end of an era in the country and a renewed search for its identity.

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Craig Murray: Social Democratic Britain's Strange Death consortiumnews.com/2025/05/05/c... There simply is no left-wing party among the complex pattern emerging in English politics.

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US Minerals Deal Resets Ukraine’s Geopolitics consortiumnews.com/2025/05/05/u...

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US Minerals Deal Resets Ukraine's Geopolitics consortiumnews.com/2025/05/05/u... The agreement, marking what must be the finest hour of Ukrainian nationalism, shatters the Russian dream of a neutral borderland, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.

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Chris Hedges: Trumpland consortiumnews.com/2025/05/04/c... The dynamiting, by the Trump administration, of decayed and corrupt institutions will mark the end of the American experiment and the shift from inverted totalitarianism to dictatorship.

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Vijay Prashad: Strangling Venezuela’s Economy consortiumnews.com/2025/05/02/v... What the United States did to Chile between 1970 and 1973 is precisely what they have been doing to Venezuela since Trump’s 2017 “maximum pressure” campaign.

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Caitlin Johnstone: Zionists Are Losing the Narrative consortiumnews.com/2025/05/02/_... Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.

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Assange Praises Albanese on Eve of Election consortiumnews.com/2025/05/02/a... Ahead of the Australian election, Julian Assange thanked incumbent Prime Minister Albanese for helping him gain his freedom. It was only Assange’s 2nd public statement since being freed 10 months ago, writes Joe Lauria.

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Israel, US & UK Intensify Attacks Across Yemen consortiumnews.com/2025/05/01/i...

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Arresting a Judge consortiumnews.com/2025/04/30/a... This is bigger than what happened in Milwaukee, says Andrew P. Napolitano. The White House is assaulting the separation of powers and the concept of federalism.

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Australian Exports to Israel Include Items for Military Use consortiumnews.com/2025/05/01/a... AUS ELECTION: While denying supplying complete weapons, the Australian government allows exports to Israel of parts & components for weapons & equipment being used in Gaza genocide, writes Kellie Tranter.

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‘Never Again’ Is Meant for All Humanity consortiumnews.com/2025/04/30/n... For the second year in a row, military outlays rose in all five of the world’s geographical regions amid world-wide tensions, finds the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

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Trade Wars: The Decline of America consortiumnews.com/2025/04/30/t... Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies.

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WATCH: Albanese’s Unlikely Challenger consortiumnews.com/2025/04/30/w... AU ELECTION: Running against Anthony Albanese in the Australian prime minister’s Sydney district on Saturday is the unlikely figure of a two-time, Oscar-nominated film director who’s mad as hell and can’t take it anymore.

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Jonathan Cook: A Monstrous Media & Murder in Gaza consortiumnews.com/2025/04/29/j... Imagine how this would have been reported if Russian soldiers had executed Ukrainians in this way. Not like this, you can be sure.

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Confirmed: Australian Weapons Sold to Israel consortiumnews.com/2025/04/29/c... With the federal government covering for them, a Canberra-based company has supplied lethal weapons to a country accused of war crimes and genocide, Michelle Fahy reports.

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Losing & Learning Nothing consortiumnews.com/2025/04/28/p... The delusions about Ukraine continue as from the start. Washington and its puppet regime in Kiev have lost the war they provoked but there is no speaking of a defeat.

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Chris Hedges Report: Decimating Gaza’s Health System consortiumnews.com/2025/04/28/c... Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a surgeon who has provided medical care in Gaza twice since Israel’s genocide began, describes the human suffering and total destruction of the medical system he witnessed there.

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Inside Labour’s Plot to Take Down Corbyn consortiumnews.com/2025/04/28/i... Richard Sanders on Get In, a book on Morgan McSweeney, the Labour strategist who focused on bringing down Corbyn and propelling Keir Starmer to power.

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Israel Hovers Over Iran-US Nuclear Talks consortiumnews.com/2025/04/25/i... Israel may not be visible at the nuclear negotiating table, as U.S.-Iran talks resume on Saturday, but its influence over the outcome is palpable, writes M. Reza Behnam.

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India-Pakistan Tensions Soar After Kashmir Massacre consortiumnews.com/2025/04/25/i... U.N. chief António Guterres called on the countries to resolve matters peacefully after the nuclear-armed neighbors began reacting to the attack in a popular tourism area.

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After Ben-Givr Visit, Yale Bans Pro-Palestine Group consortiumnews.com/2025/04/25/a... The university’s reprisal against Yalies4Palestine followed campus protests against the visit to New Haven by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s extremist police minister, Sharon Zhang reports.

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AS`AD AbuKHALIL: Where is the ‘Arab Street?’ consortiumnews.com/2025/04/24/a... During the ongoing wars of Israeli expansionism in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria and Lebanon, the absence of large, sustainable protests in numerous Arab capitals is notable.

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Google's Wiz Purchase Strengthens Ties to Israel consortiumnews.com/2025/04/24/g... The Silicon Valley giant’s deal with the U.S.-Israeli cybersecurity company deepens its links with former members of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite signals intelligence group, Alan MacLeod reports.

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Patrick Lawrence: Exploding Gas Pipelines consortiumnews.com/2025/04/23/p... The Europeans successfully resisted the American imperium’s impositions during the late Cold War years. They would not dream of any such effort now.

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‘Vance Go Back!’ — Indian Farmers on US VP’s Visit consortiumnews.com/2025/04/23/v... “No surrender to Trump’s tariffs” — Abdul Rahman reports on demonstrations against the implications for Indian agriculture of the U.S. vice president’s visit to New Delhi this week.

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Jeffrey Sachs: Close the US Military Bases in Asia consortiumnews.com/2025/04/22/j... Trump is looking for ways to save money — an excellent idea given that the U.S. federal budget is hemorrhaging $2 trillion a year. Here’s where to start.

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JOHN KIRIAKOU: ‘Assassination Culture’ consortiumnews.com/2025/04/22/j... The only way to change those in government, at least in our present construct, is at the ballot box. Killing people, or supporting their killing, does nothing to improve the situation.

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Secret Terror Blueprints for US to ‘Help Ukraine Resist’ consortiumnews.com/2025/04/21/s... Newly-leaked documents reveal four military academics pitching the U.S. National Security Council a series of extreme strategies for Ukraine, Kit Klarenberg reports.

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Vijay Prashad: BRICS & Industrial Development consortiumnews.com/2025/04/21/v... With the expansion of the group to more countries of the Global South, a revival of the “Bangdung Spirit” is taking place, but not without its contradictions.

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The Chris Hedges Report: Economics of a Dying Empire consortiumnews.com/2025/04/19/t... Events will become increasingly difficult to predict as late-stage capitalism sees the oligarchy consume even the structures that had supported it.

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In Ukraine, Ultra-Nationalists Are the ‘Good Guys’ consortiumnews.com/2025/04/20/i... Neo-Nazism’s rise in Ukraine is due to the silent approval of Ukraine’s political & military elites ..., Ukrainian academic Marta Havryshko tells Natylie Baldwin.

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On Neo-Nazi Influence in Ukraine consortiumnews.com/2025/04/20/o... A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to some who say, “There is no evidence that Nazism has substantial influence in Ukraine.” Joe Lauria reports.

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Before Trump Bombed Yemen, Biden Displaced Half a Million consortiumnews.com/2025/04/18/b... A little-known U.S. military operation in Yemen undertaken by the Biden administration displaced 531,000 people, acc to reports from Yemen’s National Team for Foreign Outreach, reports Robert Inlakesh.

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Silencing the Shifting Opinion About Israel consortiumnews.com/2025/04/17/s... Project Esther is more than just a desperate attempt to salvage a crumbling Zionist narrative — it is part of a broader authoritarian shift in U.S. politics, says Tariq Kenney-Shawa.

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John Kiriakou: US Prisons Under Trump’s Watch consortiumnews.com/2025/04/17/j... Here’s a look at the blighted prison system that Donald Trump took over from Biden, along with some new scandals that have already occurred since Trump’s inauguration.

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US Taxpayers Appalled at Funding Genocide Turn to UN consortiumnews.com/2025/04/16/u... With no recourse in U.S. courts or Congress, the Taxpayers Against Genocide movement pivots to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Marjorie Cohn reports.

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American Rendition: Journey to a Louisiana Cell consortiumnews.com/2025/04/16/a... The arrest and detention of Rümeysa Öztürk, a child development researcher who has not been charged with a crime, reveals what President Donald Trump’s deportation campaign looks like on the ground.

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US Adds to Long Hospital-Bombing History consortiumnews.com/2025/04/16/u... This brief rundown of the past five decades shows that last month’s attacks on the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Yemen are far from an aberration, writes Alan MacLeod.

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Palestinian Resistance in an Orwellian World consortiumnews.com/2025/04/15/p... In Palestine, Israel has been the executioner and the United States has been the executor of ethnic cleansing and genocide, though it is those who uphold international law that are blamed, writes M. Reza Behnam.

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Craig Murray: Trump, Tariffs & Trade consortiumnews.com/2025/04/15/c... There is no danger of the U.S. being unable to finance trillion-dollar trade deficits in the next few years. But for how long?

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Downplaying Ukraine Connection in Latest Trump Plot consortiumnews.com/2025/04/14/d... The early evidence indicates that the latest plot to kill Donald Trump was directed by one or more persons in Ukraine. But you wouldn’t know that from the mainstream media, reports Joe Lauria.

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Chris Hedges Report: The Military History of the Internet consortiumnews.com/2025/04/13/c... The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.

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Jeffrey Sachs: Birthing a New International Order consortiumnews.com/2025/04/14/j... The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.

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Chris Hedges Report: The Military History of the Internet consortiumnews.com/2025/04/13/c... The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.

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