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Consortium News is a web site founded by editor Robert Parry in 1995, back in the "early days" of the modern Internet. The site was meant to be "a home for important, well-reported stories that weren't welcome in the O.J. Simpson-obsessed, conventional-wisdom-driven national news media of that time." According to the web site description, Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His new book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, can be ordered at secrecyandprivilege.com. It's also available at ... More » (Source: Consortium News)
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Obama and the Left's Old Schism
However, another branch of progressives – let’s call them the “pragmatists” – recognize the daunting challenges that a liberal politician faces in the United States ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Robert Novak Was a Liar
Washington’s punditocracy is in mourning over the death of right-wing columnist Robert Novak, with many warm remembrances about his outsized personality and his supposed ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Cheney's New Gambit
The stenographers of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) are missing the most obvious explanation for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s widely reported “disappointment” ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Ellsberg's Hiroshima Remembrance
I had a sense of dread, a feeling that something very ominous for humanity had just happened. A feeling, new to me as an American, at 14, that my country might have made a ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Obama Lawyers Shield Cheney on Leak
The Obama administration asserted a legal argument that a federal judge called the Jon Stewart “Daily Show exemption,” as the Justice Department continued a court fight to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Obama, They Want You to Fail
The pattern of belligerent Republicans and timid Democrats is now repeating itself on health-care reform. Democrats first excluded from the debate the one measure that ...Posted by Ben Ross -
The Disappointing Leon Panetta
CIA Director Leon Panetta is continuing the culture of cover-up that has plagued the Agency for the past three decades, ever since William Casey and Robert Gates collaborated ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
there’s a growing realization that the starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan’s presidency. There’s also ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Will Obama End 'War on Drugs'?
Efforts by President Obama to put an end to the nation’s failed “War on Drugs” can’t come an hour too soon – if that’s his intent. From his actions, it’s hard to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture
For a Washington press corps that has been up in arms challenging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that the CIA obscured key details of the harsh interrogations from ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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The Ugly Truth about Jobs
companies have found that they can shed workers and rely on technological advances and overseas factories to operate with a lot fewer U.S. employees.Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Afghan Lessons from the Iraq War
You don’t have to go back 40 years to the Vietnam War to feel the sting of déjà vu. Returning to the Iraq War just three years ago will suffice.Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide
Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide By Robert Parry October 4, 2009 If Democrats enact something like the health-care bill emerging from the Senate Finance Committee, they ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
US Press Corps Fails Again on Iran
the most dangerous parallel between the misreporting on Iraq and the current hysteria about Iran may be that major U.S. news outlets, especially the New York Times and the ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
A Gorilla Dust-up Over Health Care
"In my opinion, conservative activists, who seem to believe that the louder they shout the more correct their beliefs must be, are less angry about Obama's policies than they ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Truth Will Not Out, on Its Own
The right-wing fury at town hall meetings over health care and the Republican obstruction of any serious reform in Washington are not just symptoms of a complex debate on an ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Holder's Torture-Probe Plan Faulted
Civil liberties advocates are criticizing an expected decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to limit a criminal probe of the Bush administration’s torture practices to ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
McGovern on 'Downing Street Minutes'
(Video) Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern recalls the remarkable case of the Downing Street Minutes, the documentary proof of President George W. Bush’s willful misuse of intelligence ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
McGovern: 'Downing Street' (Part 2)
McGovern: 'Downing Street' (Part 2) By TheRealNews.com August 10, 2009 The leak of the Downing Street Minutes – written in July 2002 and disclosed three years later ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Keeping an Eye Out for Planet Earth
The Obama administration is freeing up evidence about global warming but political challenges block progress, says Michael Winship. August 7, 2009Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Bush Administration (123), Obama Administration (76), Media and Politics (65), Ethics in Journalism (60), Torture (57), Law Enforcement (52), Mainstream Media (49), War in Iraq (46), Law (46), War (46), Republican Party (26), Money and Politics (25), Foreign Policy (24), Media Ownership (20), U.S. Congress (17)...
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Robert Parry (146), Jason Leopold (43), Ray Mcgovern (35), Brent Budowsky (13), Ivan Eland (13), Michael Winship (12), Nat Parry (9), Melvin A Goodman (7), Paul Jay (6), Peter Dyer (6), David Swanson (6), Lisa Pease (5), Sherwood Ross (5), Coleen Rowley (4), Gareth Porter (4)...
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