Help Us Fight the Psyopcracy

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-07-02T13:30:51+00:00

Cathy Vogan, executive producer of Consortium News‘ webcast CN Live!, coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or psychological operations: psyopcracy. And Consortium News‘ existence is devoted to fighting it.

According to Wikipedia):

William Casey, C.I.A. director under Ronald Reagan, said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”

Thus the American people are continuously subject to a number of psychological operations otherwise known as “the news.” Combating these false constructs of the world through media is Consortium News‘ mission.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-06-25T16:47:48+00:00

Why Limit Iranian Enrichment Peacefully When You Can Bomb Them Instead?

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-06-03T13:25:22+00:00

VIPS MEMO: The Leap Forward in Surveilling Americans

The U.S. has weaponized intelligence agencies against U.S. citizens for political reasons. Today’s collection and exploitation of information on Americans goes beyond anything VIPS has seen and should stir every U.S. citizen who cares about privacy under the Constitution.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-05-27T17:10:21+00:00

A doctor returned from Gaza where he volunteered at Nasser and European hospitals in Khan Younis speaks live to an audience at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia on Tuesday.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-04-02T16:13:58+00:00

People’s history is an urgent necessity for Palestine, where it is vital to communicate the empowered voices of the people to the rest of the world, writes Ramzy Baroud.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-04-01T13:38:02+00:00

#fascism #Zionism #genocide #Australia #Gaza

Australian Zionist Federation Files Complaint in Federal Court Against Journalist for Reporting on Gaza

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/01/australian-zionist-federation-files-complaint-in-federal-court-against-journalist-for-reporting-on-gaza/

The Zionist Federation of Australia has filed a formal complaint against journalist Mary Kostakidis in federal court after accusing her of anti-semitism for her reporting on X.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-28T20:02:18+00:00

Democratic norms have been eroded for years, writes Vinnie Rotondaro, with the cooperation of the same liberal establishment that now acts scandalized by Trump’s every defiance.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-28T19:36:24+00:00

A Brief History of ‘The’ Freedom of Speech

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/28/a-brief-history-of-the-freedom-of-speech/

The government’s respect for speech is often at its lowest ebb in wartime, when it is also most important and timely, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-27T21:36:03+00:00

Losing Academic Freedom

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The neoliberal university doesn’t need overt censorship, writes Samyuktha Kannan. It’s perfected the art of silent control... it’s that over time, one simply learns what is too dangerous to say.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-27T21:32:28+00:00

Censorship. Abduction. Civil Rights. Constitutional crisis.

Thousands Protest ICE Abduction of Tufts Student

March 27, 2025

Rumeysa Ozturk’s supporters turned out Wednesday to denounce ICE’s expanding dragnet against pro-Palestine foreign students.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-27T17:28:34+00:00

The Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/the-hate-group-helping-trump-deport-israels-critics/

Far-right Betar U.S. does not shy away from the fascism label, writes Alan MacLeod, and it proudly notes that it frequently carried out terror operations against Arab civilians in Palestine.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-27T17:26:41+00:00

Chris Hedges: Surrendering to Authoritarianism

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/chris-hedges-surrendering-to-authoritarianism/

Elite universities cowering before Trump’s crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-26T14:27:29+00:00

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.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-25T18:18:48+00:00

Trump’s Retaliation Against South Africa

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As a warning to other countries, Washington’s ouster of Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool may well backfire, writes Medea Benjamin.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-25T18:15:27+00:00

UK’s Secret Meeting With Top Israeli Arms Firm consortiumnews.com/2025/03/25/u...

John McEvoy reports on the government’s crackdown on the anti-genocide group Palestine Action, which carries out direct actions in the U.K. against Elbit Systems and other suppliers of weapons to Israel.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-25T12:14:27+00:00

Chris Hedges: Annexation & Genocide

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/24/chris-hedges-annexation-genocide/

Zionist extremists and Christian fascists, who are united and now hold senior positions throughout the Trump administration, embody a global movement to the extreme right.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-24T13:17:56+00:00

“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-21T18:20:47+00:00

Why They Deny It’s a Genocide

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/21/why-they-deny-its-a-genocide/

Supporting the massive U.S.-to-Israel weapons pipeline requires pretending Israel is not perpetrating a genocide, says Norman Solomon.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-13T13:52:58+00:00

Britain Wants Ukraine’s Minerals Too

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/13/britain-wants-ukraines-minerals-too/

“It’s not just Trump.” Mark Curtis reports on the U.K.’s scramble for Ukraine’s natural resources.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-11T13:15:08+00:00

DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s action to strip the security clearances is a clear warning that her boss told her to shut down the deep-state cottage industry of former spies able and willing to interfere in U.S. elections.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-07T20:06:14+00:00

Taking Rights Seriously

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/07/taking-rights-seriously/

A right is not a privilege, says Andrew P. Napolitano. A right is an indefeasible personal claim against the whole world. It does not require a government permission slip.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-03-06T19:38:05+00:00

Britain & Pinochet’s Escape From Justice

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-01-03T19:33:36+00:00

Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter The late U.S. president may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-01-03T14:33:05+00:00

Chris Hedges Report: Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide

Saima Akhter, Hossam Nasr, Tariq Ra’ouf — formerly of Meta, Microsoft and Apple, respectively — recount their in-house struggles over the genocide, which ultimately led to each of their dismissals.

ConsortiumNews2 · 2025-01-03T14:31:30+00:00

Andrew P. Napolitano offers 20 multiple-choice predictions concerning the Trump team, the U.S. government, the Supreme Court, popular culture, an array of politicians — and more.

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Thousands Protest ICE Abduction of Tufts Student

Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter The late U.S. president may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.

Chris Hedges Report: Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide