- The Republicans are making a cynical bet that Americans over 55 really are the “greedy geezers” of conservative ideology, people who care only for themselves and not for their children and subsequent generations. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/042511.html 3 comments politics
- Kissinger Backs Israel on Pollard Case - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger urges President Obama to free Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/030911a.html 3 comments politics
- Chinese President Hu visiting Washington had the feel of a banker showing up to check out a struggling client. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/011811b.html 4 comments politics
- Eisenhower's Neglected Warning - No president since Eisenhower has genuinely understood the dangers of the Pentagon's increasing influence over our national security policy. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/011611b.html 14 comments politics
- Several writers believe that if and when fascism comes to America it will be packaged in a friendly form tied to beneficial advertising slogans and public interest messaging. It will be sold, 1984-style, as being unavoidable, even cool, and in our best interest. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/011411b.html 13 comments politics
- Reminding Us of How a Corrupt Supreme Court Came to Appoint a Losing Candidate as President, Ending American Democracy. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/121210.html 11 comments reddit.com
- Considering the US has repeatedly invaded and bombed other nations and killed hundreds of thousands if not millions of their inhabitants, isn't it a bit hypocritical for the US to lecture North Korea about how it should respond to an enemy firing at it? http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/112410.html 32 comments politics
- Taking America Back to the Gilded Age when Bankers Magazine announced “business… is gradually subverting the power of the politician, and rendering him subservient to its purposes.” Vanderbilt boasted he could “buy up any politician” and a railroad magnate claimed “We hire the law by the year” http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/110510a.html 3 comments politics
- The founders of the United States...would roll over in their graves at the mutation of their traditional, peaceful, and restrained foreign policy into a militaristic, globe-girdling empire that is exhausting the country economically and ruining the republic that they created. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/091410a.html 4 comments politics
- Jesus's Unsettling Lessons for America: Many American Christians don't want to hear Jesus's disdain for his era's unfettered capitalism, observes Rev. Howard Bess. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/080110a.html 3 comments politics
- Hiroshima and the Myths of Empire - Eisenhower said: "It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing . . . to use the atomic bomb, to kill and terrorize civilians, without even attempting [negotiations], was a double crime." http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/072910a.html 3 comments politics
- Israel attacked a NATO member's ship: Former British Ambassador Craig Murray, a Law of the Sea expert, recounts what he’s hearing from other diplomats at NATO headquarters http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/060310b.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Why Hasn't America Bombed Israel Yet? There is a strong understanding among the various national militaries that an attack by Israel on a NATO member flagged ship in international waters is an event to which NATO is obliged - legally obliged, as a matter of treaty - to react. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/060310b.html 46 comments politics
- Israel's Dangerous Turn - After Israel’s lethal attack in international waters on a civilian flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza, a troubling question arises: Have Israeli authorities, who possess a major nuclear arsenal, become dangerously erratic? http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/060110.html 9 comments politics
- Israel's Troubling Tilt Toward Apartheid - Today a virulent form of Zionism is turning Israel in the direction of an intolerant apartheid state. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/031910.html 7 comments worldnews
- How 'Free Market' Snookers Americans. Corporate propaganda has sold many Americans on "big government" as the big threat to their freedom. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/030410a.html 12 comments politics
- Encountering Teabagger Outrage http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/030410b.html 60 comments politics
- The GOP's $3 Billion Propaganda Organ: The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times... (2006) http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/122706.html 7 comments politics
- How Government Worsens Terror Risk - The US govt should quit creating a demand for its own security services by reducing military action in Muslim countries — the main cause of Islamist terrorism that the govt doesn’t want you to know about. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/010510a.html 4 comments politics
- "The Joe Lieberman Vote Is More About Israel And Less About Health Care... Lieberman Is Using His Leverage To Get Concessions From The Obama White House About The Middle East Peace Plan, Including The Increase Of Settlers In The West Bank" http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/121509.html? 36 comments politics
- Is Lieberman Protecting Israel? Leveraging on health care to limit the pressure that President Obama can put on Israel to make concessions on a Mideast peace plan? http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/121509.html 4 comments politics
- The story NPR will never spin: MI-6 and the CIA have people tortured to death in old Soviet gulags in Uzbekistan to make them confess to being in Osama bin Laden's Al-Quaeda in Afghanistan. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/102409b.html 3 comments politics
- "The danger for Democrats is that this industry-friendly legislation would impose new burdens on citizens, including government fines for failing to sign up for a health-insurance plan, without guarantees that the coverage won't be almost as crappy and expensive as it is now." http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/100409.html? 3 comments politics
- Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide by letting insurance companies write bill http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/100409.html 6 comments politics
- A very scary thing is happening in the "Electronic Voting" Industry - Monopoly Looms on Electronic Voting The sale of Diebold's election unit to ES&S could leave one company counting 75% of American votes http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/091609a.html 7 comments politics
- Wealth Inequality Destroys US Ideals. "In 2005, the top one per cent claimed 22 per cent of the national income, while the top ten per cent took half of the total income, the largest share since 1928." http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/070409a.html 11 comments politics
- "The insurance industry's defenders say two of every three customers want out. Americans would so prefer a government-run plan that it would destroy the private insurance industry - and that therefore the public option simply can't be permitted." http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/062209.html 258 comments politics
- Bush/Cheney Pushed Torture on DOJ. In 2005, Attorney General Gonzales bent to demands from Bush and Cheney to push through new legal opinions sanctioning torture, according to e-mails written by then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/060809b.html 4 comments politics
- Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever? "[T]here’s a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan’s presidency." http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/060309.html 385 comments politics
- "Though the world has seen the extraordinary cost in blood and treasure because of the failure of the U.S. news media to act professionally in the run-up to the Iraq War, there is little indication that the national press corps has learned lasting lessons from that catastrophe" http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/043009.html 4 comments politics
- Let’s ban political contributions to any candidate, of any party, for any office by any company that receives bailout money, until the money is paid back in full http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/032109b.html 3 comments reddit.com
- In effect, a parallel legal system has been created outside the U.S. Constitution in which the President can order someone locked up indefinitely simply by calling the person an “enemy combatant” http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/080708.html 3 comments politics
- A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for Bush or a successor to throw American citizens – into a legal black hole by designating them “enemy combatants,” http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/072108.html 18 comments politics
- Senior CIA Analyst: "It’s crazy, but it’s coming soon – from the same folks who brought us Iraq" http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/061908c.html 5 comments politics
- President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney knowingly lied to Congress and the public about the threat that Iraq posed to the United States in the months leading up http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/060508c.html 16 comments worldnews
- the Bush administration manipulated public opinion on the Iraq War http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/042108.html 3 comments politics
- Hillary's Lies Grow and Grow and Grow and Grow - and she attacks when busted for them. Sound Familiar? http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/032508a.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Ray McGovern thrown out of Hearing after asking for Patraeus to be sworn in. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html 9 comments reddit.com
- Time and Again, Gore Has Pointed to Grave Dangers When Nearly all Other National Political Leaders and Media Bigwigs Were Either Running With the Herd or Keeping Silent http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/082607.html 5 comments politics
- CIA Analysts: Osama bin-Laden Wanted Bush Elected and Produced Videotape to Help Bush http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/070306.html 41 comments reddit.com