3rd UPDATE. Arab parties in Israel on Thursday supported Gadi Eiskenkot, Netanyahu’s opponent, giving him a 67-46 seat lead with the president poised to ask him to form a government, reports Joe Lauria.
In the aftermath of punishing elections for Trump and Netanyahu, Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes underscore the seriousness of nuclear threats by two leaders desperate to salvage credibility.
Trump’s Election-Day comment about ending U.S. military aid to Israel by year’s end aligns with Netanyahu’s push for deeper U.S.-Israeli military integration, Dave DeCamp reports.
As Iran strains U.S. security architecture in West Asia, regional powers build new arrangements, but serving whose interests? Meanwhile the U.S. hedges its bets against losing the region’s oil by securing Venezuela’s. This hedge reduces Trump’s incentive to continue unwinnable…
The initiative passed by Montana is similar to a law passed in Hawaii earlier this year that classified corporations as “artificial persons” that do not have a constitutional right to make political donations.
Serbia’s new authorities have to decide whether to preserve their foreign-policy independence or submit to the dictates of the Brussels bureaucracy in order to gain E.U. admission, writes Uroš Lipušcek.
What is the state of democracy?, CrossTalk‘s Peter Lavelle asks Black Agenda Report Editor Margaret Kimberley and CN Editor Joe Lauria in a report recorded on the morning of U.S. Election Day.
The 2026 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence is being awarded to David McBride, the former Australian Army lawyer imprisoned after disclosing classified material about alleged war crimes by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan.
To understand the power struggle over the Constitutional Tribunal you need to consider something Western legacy media is blithely ignoring: the centrality of Ukraine to current events in Poland.
With corporate spending on U.S. elections soaring since an infamous 2010 Supreme Court ruling, Brett Wilkins reports on a constitutional effort to close the floodgates and a state initiative in Montana.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity warn President Trump of the disaster awaiting the U.S. if it restarts the war on Iran, and offers the president a way out.
The conduct of empire and the dismantling of a never-fully-functional U.S. democracy have been normalized — broadly accepted as the anxious reality in which Americans must vote in the 2026 midterms.
Under Macron’s recently announced “forward deterrence” strategy French interests assume a European dimension defined solely by France.
As Democrats win big, watch analysis of the election results on Consortium News’ CN Live! presentation of an all-star panel discussing the verdict on Donald Trump.
A people whose country cannot say no to perpetual wars will eventually discover that wars have said no to their personal freedom, writes Andrew Napolitano.
Ahead of the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday, German journalist Patrik Baab asked CN Editor Joe Lauria: Who really runs the U.S.?
Former ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan did not seek arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for genocide. A U.N. Commission is seeking to rectify that, writes Marjorie Cohn.
An top analyst says if Trump loses Congress Tuesday his era is over. Would Democrats have the guts to cut Iran war funding? Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter. Watch the replay!
In what organizers call their largest coordinated port action, dockworkers from France to India to Greece are withholding their labor on Friday to demand an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Antony Loewenstein responds to a book by leading pro-Israel advocates trying to set the narrative about the December 2025 massacre in Australia at Bondi Beach.
