Getting the UN Involved in Ukraine
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/03/getting-the-un-involved-in-ukraine/
A legally-acceptable peacekeeping force can only be set up through the auspices of the United Nations Security Council and that would mean both sides of the war agreeing, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Britain and…
#Politics #Analysis #Bangladesh #Brazil #Britain #Commentary #France #International #Ireland #Nato #Russia #U.n.SecurityCouncil #Ukraine #UnitedNations #EmmanuelMacron #JoeLauria #KeirStarmer #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VladimirPutin #VolodymyrZelensky

WATCH: A Time of Growing Repression
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/30/watch-a-time-of-growing-repression/
CN Editor Joe Lauria addressed a meeting held on the eve of an appeal hearing for Australian whistleblower David McBride, highlighting the growing repression in contrast to 50 years ago. On the night before the appeal hearing of Australian whistleblower…
#Politics #Analysis #Australia #Commentary #Iraq #JulianAssange #Legal #Media #Militarism #Pentagon #PressFreedom #U.s. #Vietnam #AntoinetteLattouf #Baghdad #CollateralMurder #DavidMcbride #JoeLauria #MaryKostakidis #MyLai #SeymourHersh

Judges Weighing Appeal By Whistleblower Who Exposed Cover-Up of Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/30/judges-weighing-appeal-by-whistleblower-who-exposed-cover-up-of-australian-war-crimes-in-afghanistan/
SPECIAL REPORT: David McBride appeared in a Canberra court earlier this month appealing his conviction in a case that could determine if a soldier’s duty is to serve only the King or also the public, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe…
#Politics #Afghanistan #Analysis #Australia #HumanRights #Intelligence #Legal #Media #WarCrimes #AntoinetteLattouf #AustralianCapitalTerritory(act) #Canberra #CourtOfAppeals #DavidMcbride #DavidMossop #DavidShoebridge #EddieLloyd #JoeLauria #MarkDreyfus #MaryKostakidis

The ‘Disappearing’ War Chat
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/26/the-disappearing-war-chat/
Had the war plans been discussed on a secure government channel a record would have been kept, but Signal offered a way to make it disappear unless someone from outside took screenshots, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #ForeignPolicy #Genocide #Intelligence #Israel #Media #MiddleEast #Palestine #U.s. #BenjaminNetanyahu #DonaldTrump #J.d.Vance #JeffreyGoldberg #JoeLauria #JohnRatcliffe #MaxBlumenthal #MichaelWaltz #TulsiGabbard

The Phony Ceasefire
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/16/the-phony-ceasefire/
Knowing well in advance that Russia would reject it, the U.S. and Ukraine announced with fanfare that its ceasefire deal was in “Russia’s court” in what was an exercise of pure public relations, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special…
#Politics #Analysis #Britain #Commentary #Propaganda #Russia #U.n.SecurityCouncil #U.s. #Ukraine #UnitedNations #DonaldTrump #J.d.Vance #JoeLauria #KeirStarmer #PublicRelations #VasilyNebenzya #VladimirPutin #VolodmyrZelensky

FBI Due to Release List of Seth Rich Files Monday
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/09/fbi-due-to-release-list-of-seth-rich-files-monday/
A federal judge in Texas ordered in a FOIA case against the F.B.I. that the bureau must produce a list of the contents of Seth Rich’s laptop computers by Monday, reports Joe Lauria. According to a court order of August…
#Politics #Analysis #Campaign2016 #CnLive! #Commentary #Election2016 #Intelligence #JulianAssange #Russia #Russiagate #U.s. #Wikileaks #CraigMurray #Dnc #EdButowsky #F.b.i. #FoxNews #HillaryClinton #Iii #JoeLauria #JudgeAmosL.Mazzant #RodWheeler #SethRich #SeymourHersh #StephenCohen

Europe’s Face-Saving Theater on Ukraine
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/05/europes-facing-saving-theater-on-ukraine/
Britain’s prime minister called an “emergency” summit in London following the Oval Office Fiasco to try to convince the world it will not be Europe’s fault, but America’s (Read: Donald Trump’s) when Ukraine collapses, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria…
#Politics #Analysis #Britain #Censorship #Commentary #France #Germany #Russia #Ukraine #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #JoeLauria #JustinTrudeau #KeirStarmer #OlafScholz #VolodmyrZelensky

Trump, Vance School Zelensky on Reality of His War
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/01/trump-vance-school-zelensky-on-reality-of-his-war/
The embattled Ukraine president, believing his own propaganda, was dressed down before the cameras in the Oval Office Friday by a fed-up president and vice president of the United States, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Russia #Ukraine #AdamSchiff #BernieSanders #DonaldTrump #J.d.Vance #JoeBiden #JoeLauria #RobertF.KennedyJr. #TulsiGabbard #VolodmyrZelensky

The US Needed Russia to Invade Ukraine
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/24/the-us-needed-russia-to-invade-ukraine/
In a moment of candor in March 2022, Joe Biden revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion to launch its three-pronged, pre-meditated war on Russia, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News First published March 22,…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Commentary #History #Intelligence #Media #Militarism #Russia #U.s. #Ukraine #AntonyBlinken #C.i.a. #HillaryClinton #JoeBiden #JoeLauria #RachelMaddow #VladimirPutin #ZbigniewBrzezinski

Yes, Ukraine Started the War
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/23/yes-ukraine-started-the-war/
Donald Trump has been flayed alive by Western media and leaders for saying Ukraine started the war. Here are facts, not myths, says Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News The outcry spread quickly across the Western world:…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Media #Russia #U.s. #Ukraine #AngelaMerkel #BarackObama #DonaldTrump #FrancoisHollande #JoeLauria #ViktorYanukovych #VolodmyrZelensky

Why Putin Entered the War
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/24/why-putin-entered-the-war/
Three years ago on Monday Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s intervention in Ukraine to “demilitarize” and “de-Nazify” the country after 30 years of the West pushing Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria on Feb. 24, 2022. The Russian regular army entered…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Britain #ColdWar #Commentary #Military #Nato #Nazism #Russia #SovietUnion #U.s. #Ukraine #JoeLauria #VladimirPutin

End in Sight for Ukraine War After Riyadh Meeting
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/19/end-in-sight-for-ukraine-war-after-riyadh-meeting/
At a meeting in the Saudi capital that included the U.S. and Russian top diplomats, the way was paved for talks to end the Ukraine war and to improve bilateral relations, while Europe is furious, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe…
#Politics #Analysis #Britain #Commentary #Europe #Gabon #Germany #History #Italy #Poland #Russia #Spain #U.s. #U.s.StateDepartment #Ukraine #AlexanderMercouris #AnatolLieven #DemocracyNow #DonaldTrump #EmmanualMacron #FinancialTimes #JefferySachs #JoeLauria #KeirStarmer #MarcoRubio #MichaelWaltz #OlafScholz #Riyadh #SergeiLavrov #VladimirPutin

WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Is the West Dead?’
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/16/watch-cn-live-is-the-west-dead/
Extraordinary events last week have called into question the future of the post-war Western alliance. With Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence, Sunday, 8pm EST. A rapid series of events over just the past few days has some political…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Belgium #Brics #CnLive! #Commentary #History #Immigration #Intelligence #CathyVogan #DonaldTrump #J.d.Vance #JoeLauria #Nato #PatrickLawrence #PeteHegseth #RayMcgovern #ScottRitter #VladimirPutin

Trump Vows to Press King of Jordan on Gaza Cleansing
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/11/trump-vows-to-press-jordan-king-on-gaza-cleansing/
The U.S. president said he would consider using aid to Jordan and Egypt as leverage to make them take part in the war crime of ethnically cleansing Gaza, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News As King…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #Egypt #Gaza #IndigenousPeople #Israel #Jordan #MiddleEast #Protests #Ukraine #WarCrimes #AbdelFattahElSisi #DonaldTrump #JoeLauria #KingAbdullahIi

Austrian Police Detain Richard Medhurst; Accuse Him of Being Hamas Member; UK Extends Probe Against Him
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/07/medhurst-detained-by-austrian-police-accused-of-being-hamas-member-uk-investigation-against-him-extended/
The British journalist said he was accused by Austrian agents of encouraging terrorism, disseminating propaganda and being involved in organized crime, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News British independent journalist Richard Medhurst said Thursday he was…
#Politics #Austria #Britain #FreeSpeech #Gaza #Intelligence #Israel #Legal #Media #MiddleEast #Palestine #PressFreedom #CraigMurray #JoeLauria #RichardMedhurst

US Officials Backtrack on Trump’s Illegal Gaza Gambit
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/05/us-officials-backtrack-on-trumps-illegal-gaza-gambit/
A widespread international and domestic outcry to Donald Trump’s plan for the U.S. to take over and cleanse Gaza of Palestinians has led U.S. officials to say he really didn’t mean it the way it sounded, reports Joe Lauria. By…
#Politics #Analysis #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Egypt #Gaza #Israel #Jordan #MiddleEast #Palestine #BenjaminNetanyahu #CaitlinJohnstone #ChrisMurphy #DonaldTrump #JoeLauria #KarolineLeavitt #MarcoRubio #MohamedBinSalman #RashidaTlaib #SteveWitkoff

Trump Wants US to Take Over & Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/04/trump-wants-us-to-take-over-ethnically-cleanse-gaza/
The president stunningly said Gaza should become a U.S. territory, and be turned into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” minus 1.8 million Palestinians. Hamas will have something to say about that, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Analysis #Colonialism #Commentary #Egypt #Gaza #HumanRights #IndigenousPeople #International #Israel #Jordan #MiddleEast #U.s. #AbdelFattahElSisi #BenjaminNetanyahu #DonaldTrump #JoeLauria #KingAbdullahIi #MosheDayan #Nakba

What DeepSeek Says About Nuland’s Role in Ukraine War
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/01/what-deepseek-says-about-nulands-role-in-ukraine-war/
What happens when you ask two Western AI programs and the new Chinese DeepSeek a politically sensitive question? We decided to find out, as Cathy Vogan reports. By Cathy Vogan Special to Consortium News News of a Chinese AI program…
#Politics #AdvancedTechnologies #Analysis #China #Commentary #Russia #Secrecy #U.s. #Ukraine #UnitedNations #Wikileaks #ArtificialIntelligence(ai) #CathyVogan #ChatGpt #Deepseek #GeoffreyPyatt #GeorgeGalloway #Grok #JoeLauria #VictoriaNuland #ViktorYanukovych

Trump’s Plan for Gaza
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/26/trumps-plan-for-gaza/
Make no mistake: this is the advancement of an agenda to end the existence of the Palestinian people in their historic homeland, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone Caitlin’s Newsletter Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. Well that didn’t…
#Politics #Analysis #Commentary #ConsortiumNews #Egypt #Gaza #HumanRights #IndigenousPeople #Israel #Jordan #MiddleEast #Palestine #U.s. #WarCrimes #AbdelFattahElSisi #CaitlinJohnstone #DonaldTrump #EthnicCleansing #Genocide #JoeLauria #KingAbdullahIi #Knesset #TimFoley

Trump: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing,’ Meaning the Gazan People
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/26/trump-clean-out-that-whole-thing-meaning-the-gazan-people/
Says he is asking Jordan and Egypt to take as many as 1.5 million Gazans in what would be an historic act of the crime of ethnic cleansing, reports Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News U.S. President…
#Politics #Analysis #Colonialism #Egypt #Gaza #IndigenousPeople #Israel #Jordan #Legal #MiddleEast #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #WarCrimes #AbdelFattahElSisi #DonaldTrump #JoeBiden #JoeLauria #KingAbdullahOfJordan #RuthBenChiat