Consortium News

With a “left press” like this, who needs fascist media?

Mark Crispin Miller It pains me to say it, but Caitlin Johnstone—whose work I used to champion ardently, defending her against the crypto-Stalinists at Counterpunch—is one of many “leftists” who keep partying like it’s 2019. Same with the interminable Noam Chomsky, The Nation, Consortium News, MoveOn, Popular Resistance, Nation of Change, Covert Action Bulletin, Naomi …

Consortium News deploys the CIA’s “conspiracy theory” meme

Mark Crispin Miller The late, great Robert Parry founded Consortium News in 1995, in response to “a crisis building in the U.S. news media,” whose allergy to inconvenient information he knew all too well from having worked for Newsweek and AP. “The mainstream media was falling into a pattern of groupthink on issue after issue, …