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  Under Blockade & the Threat of Invasion A short film about a breakthrough Cuban drug for treating Alzheimer’s shines light on the resilience of a nation striving to innovate under the constraints of the American blockade and threats of an invasion, writes Ullekh NP.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ Israel’s Vulnerability & Palestinian Leverage Israel is entering a moment of unprecedented vulnerability, writes Ramzy Baroud. That must be clearly and urgently exposed to end senseless wars and the occupation of Palestine.   Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ Taming the Military -Industrial Beast Washington’s current U.S. buildup of the military industrial complex will certainly prove devastating — not just on U.S. foreign and domestic policies but also on the economic prospects of average Americans, writes William Hartung.   Rea...

  The Silence of Arab States Arab states are not betraying Palestine, because Palestinian freedom, defeat of Zionism and dismantling imperial domination were never central to their agenda, writes Ramzy Baroud.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ US Immigration’s Expanding Gulag It’s no exaggeration to say that ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration, writes Rebecca Gordon.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ War & Morality In a liberal democracy, the government can only morally do what the governed have affirmatively authorized it to do, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. This is not the case with Trump’s war on Iran.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ You can make a donation to Consortium News by   c...

  War & Morality In a liberal democracy, the government can only morally do what the governed have affirmatively authorized it to do, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. This is not the case with Trump’s war on Iran.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ ‘This Is Our Land,’ Says the Israeli Settler Israel has killed at least 26 Palestinians in the West Bank since the beginning of the year, of whom at least eight were murdered by settlers.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ Iran War Exposes Cracks in BRICS Wall Fissures have opened in the bloc over the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, writes Betwa Sharma. India has perhaps been most divisive. Let alone as a global power, India isn’t even projecting itself as a truly independent, regional one.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ You can...

  US Commanders Invoke Biblical End Times in Iran One noncommissioned officer told the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was “anointed by Jesus” and that war with Iran was “all part of God’s divine plan” to bring about Armageddon.  Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ DAY 4 RECAP: ATTACK ON IRAN A recap of events spiraling out of control in the Middle East on Tuesday.   Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ Craig Murray: The War for Greater Israel What long-term lessons China, Russia and the Global South are learning from the abandonment by the entire West of the principles of international law, we shall see in the decades to come.   Read here... _______________________________________________________________________________________ You can make a donation to Consortium News by   cre...

  Trump’s Act of War January 3, 2026 Shares This is from the same playbook that destroyed Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and perpetrated coups across Asia, Africa and Latin America, write   Medea Benjamin and Michelle Ellner. President Donald Trump giving a press statement Saturday about the U.S. attack on Venezuela and seizure of President Nicolas Maduro; U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on left.  (Video still/White House/X) By  Medea Benjamin  and  Michelle Ellner Common Dreams O vernight, the  United States  government bombed civilian and military sites across  Venezuela  and illegally kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. These are blatant and illegal acts of war by the  Trump administration . This act of aggression is a continuation of U.S. attempts to seize and plunder Venezuela’s natural resources and undermine Venezuela’s sovereignty as well as the sovereignty of other countries in  Latin America . This war does n...