Links to four pieces of commentary and analysis, all from Consortium News: the first is from May 19, the others from the spring of 2014 and by CN founder Robert Parry; more current CN reports and commentary are accessible by clicking on its name below. (MEDIA 5-14-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM MAY 19  BBC’s shameful interview with UNRWA chief, by Jonathan Cook | Jonathan-Cook.net / Consortium News  There’s been yet more shameful reporting by BBC News at Ten, with international editor Jeremy Bowen the chief culprit this time. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY 4, 2025, and MAY 10, 2014  How Bob Parry covered Odessa fire that sparked a war. From Consortium News. This weekend [of May 3 and 4, 2025] marks the 11th anniversary of 48 ethnic Russians burnt alive by far-right thugs in Odessa, a massacre that spurred independence declarations in Donbass, leading to civil war in Ukraine and Russia’s eventual intervention. Click HERE for Robert Parry’s report of May 10, 2014, and related video.

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FROM APRIL 16, 2014  Ukraine, through the U.S. looking glass, by Robert Parry | Consortium News  The acting president of the coup regime in Kiev announces that he is ordering an “anti-terrorist” operation against pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine, while his national security chief says he has dispatched right-wing ultranationalist fighters . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM APRIL 14, 2014  What’s the matter with John Kerry? by Robert Parry | Consortium News  On Feb. 1, 2013, when John Kerry replaced Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, there might have been some reason to hope that the former Vietnam veteran against the war and the man who conducted serious investigations of U.S. national security crimes in the 1980s would bring some integrity and maturity to U.S. foreign policy . . . READ MORE . . .

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