Durbin: The decision to go to war can only be made by Congress From Sen. Dick Durban's office: WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today called on the Senate to pass a bipartisan joint war powers resolution to end unauthorized U.S. military...

Four Hours in My Lai is a 1989 television documentary made by Yorkshire Television concerning the 1968 My Lai Massacre by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. The film includes interviews with soldiers at the massacre, and the later trials of those involved. The film...

News conference today (March 14, 2018) on Capitol Hill:

Next week, the Senate is expected to vote on ending U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has plunged Yemen into the world's largest humanitarian crisis.S.J.Res. 54 would withdraw U.S. armed forces from this war that is now entering its...

Help End U.S. Complicity in Largest Global Humanitarian Crisis!During the month of March, the Senate will vote on ending U.S. military involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has plunged Yemen into the world's largest humanitarian crisis.S.J.Res. 54 would...

Sanders, Lee and Murphy to Introduce Yemen War Powers Resolution: Live Stream at 4:30pm ESTSens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) will introduce Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 4:30 p.m. a bipartisan joint resolution to remove U.S. armed...

The U.S. Role in the War in Yemen: What You Can Do Thursday, March 1, 8 PM ESTSince March 2015, U.S.-supported airstrikes in Yemen have implicated us in what is now the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Military action by a Saudi Arabia-led coalition is the...

Former Secretary of Education and current neocon shill William Bennett was bloviating on Fox News Monday about the media "fawning" over the North Koreans at the Olympics. He was upset that Americans were not hating the North Korean attendees.He appeared on...

I was shocked to hear that the Robert Parry, the editor/publisher of Consortium News, suffered a stroke on Christmas Eve. His stroke affected his eyesight (especially his reading and thus his writing) although apparently not much else. Consortium News has been an...