Consortium News

Featuring Kim Dotcom, William Binney, Mike Gravel, and George Szamuely.

Consortium News launched its first live show, CN Live!, on July 12, 2019 at 2pm EDT, to provide weekly insights into WikiLeaks, the Middle East, the US presidential elections and other topics in the news.

Hosted by Joe Lauria, Elizabeth Vos. Executive producer, Cathy Vogan. Technical production, Ebon Kim

Featuring Nancy Hollander, Margaret Kimberley, Ed Butowsky & Ray McGovern.

Consortium News launched its first live show, CN Live!, on July 12, 2019 at 2pm EDT, to provide weekly insights into WikiLeaks, the Middle East, the US presidential elections and other topics in the news.

Hosted by Joe Lauria, Elizabeth Vos. Executive producer, Cathy Vogan. Technical production, Ebon Kim

Featuring Nancy Hollander, Margaret Kimberley, Ed Butowsky & Ray McGovern.

Consortium News launched its first live show, CN Live!, on July 12, 2019 at 2pm EDT, to provide weekly insights into WikiLeaks, the Middle East, the US presidential elections and other topics in the news.

Hosted by Joe Lauria, Elizabeth Vos. Executive producer, Cathy Vogan. Technical production, Ebon Kim

Featuring Kristinn Hrafnsson, As'ad AbuKhalil, Michael Isikoff, Pepe Escobar & George Szamuely.

Consortium News launched its first live show, CN Live!, on July 12, 2019 at 2pm EDT, to provide weekly insights into WikiLeaks, the Middle East, the US presidential elections and other topics in the news.

Hosted by Joe Lauria, Elizabeth Vos. Executive producer, Cathy Vogan. Technical production, Ebon Kim

CN LIVE! is hosted by Joe Lauria and Elizabeth Vos.

Executive producer / production designer: Cathy Vogan.

Digital producer: Ebon Kim

Independent investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter joins Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria to discuss how the Department of Homeland Security created a false narrative of Russian cyberattacks on U.S. voter sites and how the bipartisan establishment fears a popular revolt.

On this second episode of Consortium News on Flashpoints, host Dennis Bernstein of KPFA Pacifica radio interviews three Consortium authors on their recent articles: Max Blumenthal on "The Other Side of John McCain"; As'ad AbuKhalil on "John McCain: The View from the Middle East"; and Diana Johnstone on her article, "The Real Russian Interference in US Politics."

In August 2018, Consortium News launched Consortium News Radio. Now, we begin a second radio show in collaboration with Pacifica Radio's Flashpoints, a biweekly interview program with Consortium News writers.

In collaboration with Dennis Bernstein, host of Pacifica Radio's syndicated show Flashpoints, Consortium News is launching its second radio program, Consortium News on Flashpoints. Recorded and produced in the Berkeley, Calif., studios of KPFA radio, Bernstein will interview three Consortium News writers about their recent articles published on this site. Each program will open with Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria discussing with Bernstein his picks of the three CN articles to be featured. The show will air twice a month on every other Friday.

On the first show, Bernstein interviews Sam Husseini on his piece "The Limits of Elizabeth Warren"; Patrick Lawrence about his article, "'Too Big to Fail': Russia-gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack"; and Joe Lauria, on his retrospective of Kofi Annan, who died on Aug. 18.

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Joe Meadors was a signalman on the USS Liberty surveillance ship on June 8, 1967, when Israel attacked, killing 34 U.S. sailors and injuring 173 more.

In August 2018, Meadors was arrested by Israeli soldiers onboard a boat taking part in a flotilla to break the Gaza blockade.

Meadors tells Consortium News Radio in this episode how he first became sympathetic to the Palestinians while growing up in Saudi Arabia, how he was told by his superiors not to discuss what happened on the Liberty, why he broke his silence 12 years later, who he thought was attacking the Liberty, why the U.S. covered it up, what he believes was Israel's motive in trying to sink his ship, what it was like in Israeli custody this month, and much more.

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INTRODUCING Consortium News Radio, an ongoing series of radio interviews with newsmakers and Consortium News writers intended to delve deeper into stories published on Consortium News.

On the premiere edition of Consortium News Radio we speak with Peter Van Buren, a former State Department official, whistleblower and victim of Twitter censorship. Van Buren speaks about his experiences in Iraq, the critical book he wrote about those experiences and how the Obama State Department attempted to have him tried under the Espionage Act. In early August 2018, Van Buren had his Twitter account permanently shut down and seven years of his Tweets wiped from the record. Why? Because he challenged mainstream journalists who contested a tweet from journalist Glenn Greenwald that mainstream reporters support America's wars and help bring them about. One corporate journalist decided to silence Van Buren by complaining to Twitter, which, within two days, and with no due process, obliged. Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, interviewed Van Buren on Wednesday, Aug. 8, for 40 minutes.

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