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Obama and the Left's Old Schism

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - However, another branch of progressives – let’s call them the “pragmatists” – recognize the daunting challenges that a liberal politician faces in the United States because the Right has built such a powerful propaganda apparatus, dominating the message reaching the American people through newspapers, magazines, books, cable TV, talk radio and the Internet. When a liberal politician also has to deal with careerist mainstream journalists who bend to the right for self-protection – think CNN – “pragmatic” progressives agree that it is unrealistic to expect perfection from someone trying to advance a reformist agenda and maybe win the next election.

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Democrats Ponder Health-Care Suicide

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Oct. 04 (Opinion) - 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 may call it a legislative victory and it may keep the campaign donations flowing from the insurance industry, but the Democrats would surely infuriate millions of American voters.

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US Press Corps Fails Again on Iran

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Sep. 30 (Opinion) - 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 Washington Post, continue to paint the disputes in black and white and leave shades of gray out of the frame. In doing so, these news organizations again are casting aside their own rules about objectivity and balance.

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Robert Novak Was a Liar

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Aug. 20 (Special Report) - 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 love of reporting. But Novak often served as a dishonest propagandist and would have been condemned in a healthy journalistic world.

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Cheney's New Gambit

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Aug. 16 (Opinion) - The stenographers of the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) are missing the most obvious explanation for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s widely reported “disappointment” with former President George W. Bush on the issue of pardons -- self-interest.

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A Gorilla Dust-up Over Health Care

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Michael Winship - Aug. 15 (Opinion) - "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 are about having lost the White House in 2008. They are primarily Republican Party hacks trying to overturn the election results, not representatives of a true grassroots revolt against liberal policies... "Until conservatives once again hold Republicans to the same standard they hold Democrats, they will have no credibility and deserve no respect."

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The Truth Will Not Out, on Its Own

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Aug. 13 (Opinion) - 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 issue packed with powerful special interests; it is a test of whether reality matters in the United States.

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McGovern: 'Downing Street' (Part 2)

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Aug. 10 (News Report) - 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 – was an “incredible” public service by a brave British truth-teller exposing how the Bush administration “fixed” the intelligence to justify invading Iraq, says former CIA analyst Ray McGovern.

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McGovern on 'Downing Street Minutes'

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Aug. 10 (Opinion) - 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 to justify an aggressive war in Iraq -- and the unwillingness of the major U.S. news media to do much with the evidence.

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Holder's Torture-Probe Plan Faulted

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Jason Leopold - Aug. 10 (News Report) - 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 CIA interrogators who exceeded Justice Department guidelines.

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Ellsberg's Hiroshima Remembrance

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Daniel Ellsberg - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - 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 terrible mistake. I was glad when the war ended nine days later, but it didn’t make me think that my first reaction on Aug. 6 was wrong.

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Olbermann-O'Reilly 'Truce' Frays

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - The AP’s decision to treat the Washington Times as a legitimate American newspaper, rather than a propaganda sheet that was tied to a foreign cult leader with an overt political agenda, enhanced the Times influence in Washington. Its stories and reporters came to be treated respectfully on C-SPAN and other news programs. That meant that Americans – tuning in and hearing the Washington Times’ harsh attacks on critics of Republican policies – weren’t alerted to the propaganda distortions that often pervaded Times articles.

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Ex-CIA Analyst Criticizes State Secrets

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Melvin A. Goodman - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - My 24 years as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (1966-90) taught me that national security is only the ostensible reason for using the state secrets privilege in cases before the court. The real reason usually has more to do with national embarrassment and not national security.

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Keeping an Eye Out for Planet Earth

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Michael Winship - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - The Obama administration is freeing up evidence about global warming but political challenges block progress, says Michael Winship. August 7, 2009

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How Pay-to-Play Corrupts Washington