Daniel Lazare

By Daniel Lazare, Consortium News, Dec 21, 2017 A new study by Conflict Armament Research shows that U.S. government weapons ended up in the hands of Islamic State jihadists, but no one in [...]

By Daniel Lazare, published on Consortium News, Dec 8, 2017 Official Washington helped unleash hell on Syria and across the Mideast behind the naïve belief that jihadist proxies could be used to [...]

By Daniel Lazare, Consortium News, Oct 25, 2017 The New York Times, which once postured as the champion of a free press, now is seeking crackdowns on news that the public gets from the Internet [...]

By Daniel Lazare, published in Consortium News, Sept 14, 2017 Like U.S. presidents before him, Donald Trump blustered about North Korea, but the seemingly isolated nation has somehow survived and [...]

By Daniel Lazare, Consortium News, June 30, 2017 As the Russia-gate imbroglio proves, a grave danger in journalism comes when the pack is running headlong in pursuit of the same prey and casts [...]

By Daniel Lazare, Consortium News, June 17, 2017  (news update on June 19) The U.S. military incursion into Syria is literally at a crossroads, with U.S.-backed forces cut off at Al-Tanf where [...]

By Daniel Lazare, Consortium News, May 11, 2017  (and weblinks to related news stories further below) Official Washington has the Russia-gate scandal almost 180-degrees wrong; it is not about [...]

By Daniel Lazare, published in Jacobin, March 22, 2017 Here’s what’s behind the turbulence shaking U.S. politics — and why it will likely only get worse. The terms “Latin America” and “coup [...]

By Daniel Lazare, Consortium News, Feb 17, 2017 Democrats and liberals are so angry about President Trump that they are turning to McCarthyistic tactics without regard to basic fairness or the [...]

By Daniel Lazare, exclusive to Consortium News, Jan 23, 2017 Last week as Donald Trump was preparing to take office, The New York Times — reeling from Trump’s interview in which he said he didn’t [...]