Stories by Robert Parry
Robert Parry's new book is Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq."
If you listen to Bush's legal advisors, questions about the limits of his authority might not be hypothetical anymore.
Posted on Jun 30, 2008
The Democratic leadership cleared the way for the president and his collaborators to evade punishment for defying the law.
Posted on Jun 21, 2008
Is John McCain like George W. Bush, someone who has learned that the media is hesitant to call a Republican politician a liar?
Posted on Jun 14, 2008
McCain is a hard-line neocon allied with Bush's 'preemptive war' theories abroad and his concept of an all-powerful 'unitary executive' at home.
Posted on Jun 9, 2008
Imagine the dire consequences if McCain appoints a fifth radical Supreme Court justice who believes in an all-powerful Executive Branch.
Posted on May 16, 2008
Behind the scenes, Hillary Clinton's campaign has been pushing a tenuous connection between Barack Obama and a Vietnam-era radical.
Posted on Apr 18, 2008
We're already dangerously close to that reality.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008
The Iraq War represents a systemic failure of American political and journalistic institutions.
Posted on Mar 19, 2008
It comes down to which candidate believes in top-down politics, and which believes in bottom-up grassroots activism.
Posted on Mar 4, 2008
Hillary has shown she'll do whatever it takes to win, even if that means overriding the majority of voters and skirting campaign finance laws.
Posted on Feb 18, 2008
George Bush winks at indiscriminate killings, further tarring the reputation of the U.S. military.
Posted on Feb 15, 2008
We could expect more truth and transparency for starters.
Posted on Feb 6, 2008
It seems naive to hope Bush's successor will reject his most destructive policies.
Posted on Jan 24, 2008
Hillary's third-place finish in Iowa dealt a stunning blow to the Clintons' attempt at establishing a political dynasty.
Posted on Jan 5, 2008
Is Obama's admitted youthful drug use more dangerous than seven years of Secret Service files on Hil and Bill?
Posted on Dec 22, 2007
Democrats think the public is just interested in new social programs, but voters are looking for something more inspirational.
Posted on Dec 12, 2007
The neocons may have lost a lot of clout with Bush, but it's dangerous to assume they are out of power.
Posted on Dec 8, 2007
For decades, the Bush family has operated above the law, using powerful connections to brush aside evidence that would put lesser Americans in the slammer.
Posted on Nov 26, 2007
Hillary Clinton has been subject to regular surveillance by Bush's Executive Branch -- and history suggests that it might be used against her in the coming election.
Posted on Nov 6, 2007
Al Gore’s supporters are making a last-ditch bid to convince him to make another run for the presidency. Will he change his mind now that he's won the Nobel Peace Prize?
Posted on Oct 12, 2007
Twelve months after being swept into Congress, the Democrats have caved in again and again to a weak and unpopular president.
Posted on Oct 12, 2007
If elected, would Hillary Clinton sweep Bush White House scandals under the rug like her husband did?
Posted on Oct 5, 2007
Mindful of the political fallout from the rising American death toll in Iraq, the U.S. military has pulled back from widespread use of aggressive tactics with ground troops this summer.
Posted on Aug 13, 2007
The extraordinary secrecy surrounding the spying operations revealed in Alberto Gonzales' Senate testimony is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at the American people.
Posted on Aug 4, 2007
Bush snared front-page attention for his supposed shift on global warming, but comments from his NASA chief that a hotter planet might actually be beneficial continue to reflect Bush's long-held doubts about the urgency of the problem.
Posted on Jun 7, 2007
Al-Qaeda's resurgence in new Pakistani strongholds is the latest sign that George W. Bush is losing the 'Global War on Terror' and has become a dangerous liability to the American people.
Posted on Feb 21, 2007
Much as he did before the Iraq invasion, George W. Bush is limiting the debate about war with Iran, offering assurances that he considers war "a last resort" even as he moves his military forces into place.
Posted on Feb 3, 2007
From the beginning of the "war on terror," George W. Bush has lied to the American people about the goals, motivation and even the identity of the enemy -- and that is sounding the death knell for the Republic.
Posted on Jan 26, 2007
With 3,000 American soldiers already dead along with possibly a half million or more Iraqis, Bush is determined to escalate the war in the Middle East into a pitched battle for his presidential legacy.
Posted on Jan 3, 2007
Intelligence sources say President Bush -- along with Israel's Ehud Olmert and the UK's Tony Blair -- are weighing the possibility of Israeli-led attacks on Syria and Iran in early 2007, with the United States providing logistical back-up.
Posted on Dec 26, 2006
As U.S. policy in the oil-rich region spins out of control, the stark choice confronting the American people will be whether the country can stand two more years of this or whether it's time for Bush to go.
Posted on Dec 9, 2006
Two decades ago, Robert Gates wanted to bomb Nicaragua, considered too extreme even by the Reagan administration. Now Official Washington is treating Gates as the returning Wise Man who will get us out of Iraq.
Posted on Nov 28, 2006
The Nov. 7 elections are shaping up as not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats, but a test of how gullible -- and how divorced from reality -- the American people have become.
Posted on Nov 6, 2006
Bush's defenders say he's just an honest guy who gets lots of bad information but the evidence points to a leader who wants his subordinates to give him a steady supply of "talking points" that can be used to achieve his goals whether the arguments are true, half true or totally false.
Posted on Oct 31, 2006
Republicans are ignoring U.S. intelligence in desperate political attack ads as they face huge losses in Congress in the fall elections.
Posted on Oct 23, 2006
In 2002, Bush put North Korea on a list of potential targets for U.S. nuclear weapons. It's no surprise, then, that Kim Jong Il has responded by creating a threat of his own.
Posted on Oct 11, 2006
The focus of Bush's recent fight with the Senate has been about the Geneva Conventions, but also under debate is whether U.S. government operatives can be prosecuted for crimes in the 'war on terror.'
Posted on Sep 25, 2006
Media outlets like the Washington Post are pulling out all the stops to rewrite the history of the Valerie Plame affair.
Posted on Sep 4, 2006
Friedman botched the biggest foreign-policy story since the Cold War but those who got it right are naïve?
Posted on Aug 21, 2006
George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers saw the Israel-Hezbollah conflict as a chance to get the Israelis to spread the war to Syria and achieve the long-sought goal of 'regime change' in Damascus.
Posted on Aug 7, 2006
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