Stories by Robert Parry
Robert Parry's new book is Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq."
Posted on May 21, 2012, Source: Consortium News
You can track the arc of modern American journalism from its apex at the Pentagon Papers and Watergate curving downward to Iran-Contra before the nadir of Bush’s war in Iraq.
Posted on Mar 9, 2012, Source: Consortium News
Americans sometimes wonder how the nation’s political process got so vitriolic. Here's a look back at the history of right-wing hate-mongering.
Posted on Dec 25, 2011, Source: Consortium News
Democrats have faced Republican strategies of grabbing hostages for decades and have quietly given in, paying ransom again and again. Will that change?
Posted on Sep 26, 2011, Source: Consortium News
The Right wants to return to the "happier days" of the 1950s--but forgets that one of the main reasons for that era's prosperity was very high taxes on the wealthy.
Posted on Sep 5, 2011, Source: Consortium News
From Ayn Rand fetishists to an uninformed public, from the Tea Parties to class warfare from above: is the entire system falling apart?
Posted on Sep 1, 2011, Source: Consortium News
Iraq continues its drift toward a failed state, and the strategic winner from the invasion looks to be Iran. So why is Washington celebrating Gen. Petraeus?
Posted on Jul 10, 2011, Source: Consortium News
Veteran political strategist Ed Rollins brought a burst of positive media coverage to Bachmann's campaign, but he continues to hide a dark secret.
Posted on Jun 28, 2011, Source: Consortium News
The lavish rewards flowing to the titans of industry have not exactly transformed society into a vibrant force for beneficial progress.
Posted on Jun 24, 2011, Source: Consortium News
There is reason for optimism among the many Americans who have lamented the near-decade-long U.S. war in Afghanistan (and the broader conflict in the Muslim world).
Posted on Jun 19, 2011, Source: Consortium News
Two decades ago, U.S. history could have taken a very different course if Gates and his cohorts had faced real accountability and their secrets had been exposed.
Posted on Jun 9, 2011, Source: Consortium News
Modern Republicans have a simple approach to politics when they are not in the White House: Make America as ungovernable as possible by using almost any means available.
Posted on May 31, 2011, Source: Consortium News
America's Right -- from the NFL lockout to Rep. Paul Ryan's budget to climate change -- side with the billionaires in what amounts to an escalating class war.
Posted on May 16, 2011, Source: Consortium News
Mitch Daniels is billed as the "serious" GOP Presidential contender. Rarely mentioned is a key fact that should disqualify him from office: he was Bush's original budget director.
Posted on Feb 25, 2011, Source: Consortium News
The answer to many of our country’s domestic problems is obvious -- the rich need to pay their fair share.
Posted on Jan 23, 2011, Source: Consortium News
MSNBC's parent company, General Electric, never seemed comfortable with some of Olbermann's material.
Posted on Dec 17, 2010, Source: Consortium News
The Obama admin's reported plan to indict Julian Assange strikes at the heart of investigative journalism on national security scandals.
Posted on Dec 3, 2010, Source: Consortium News
We should be under no illusion about the new flood of know-nothingism that is about to inundate the United States in the guise of a return to "first principles."
Posted on Oct 8, 2010, Source: Consortium News
Many Americans view their country and its soldiers as the "good guys" spreading "democracy" and "liberty" around the world. It just ain't so.
Posted on Sep 16, 2010, Source: Consortium News
As Election Day 2010 approaches, the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.
Posted on Jul 15, 2010, Source: Consortium News
The recession has been a way for employers to cull payrolls -- and to discover that many jobs don't have to be filled again.
Posted on Jun 3, 2010, Source: Consortium News
Foreign policy analysts around the world are quietly worrying about the prospects of having a very erratic state.
Posted on May 6, 2010, Source: Consortium News
For 28 years, the Washington Times has sent disinformation slithering through the U.S. political system, befouling our democracy. Those days might be over.
Posted on May 2, 2010, Source: Consortium News
Obama and the Democrats have to give up their obsession with bipartisanship and take up the challenge of fighting for truth and the public’s interest.
Posted on Apr 2, 2010, Source: Consortium News
Republicans want to block Obama and the Democrats from solving national problems, even at the risk of the personal safety of their political opposition.
Posted on Feb 15, 2010, Source: Consortium News
If the U.S. had a functioning criminal justice system for the powerful, former Vice President Dick Cheney would have just convicted himself with his Sunday comments.
Posted on Feb 10, 2010, Source: Consortium News
The right has convinced Americans that the news media has a liberal bias, lending cover to the neocon leanings of the Washington Post -- and Palin's propaganda.
Posted on Feb 4, 2010, Source: Consortium News
For years, the Right's media infrastructure had only one weak spot, the Internet, but now that has changed.
Posted on Jan 20, 2010, Source: Consortium News
MSNBC's Chris Matthews personifies the puffed-up self-importance and total lack of self-awareness that has come to define America's media punditocracy.
Posted on Jan 14, 2010, Source: Consortium News
In announcing the U.S. response to Haiti's devastating earthquake, President Obama noted the two countries' historic ties. But few Americans know that sad story.
Posted on Dec 25, 2009, Source: Consortium News
In his Nobel speech, Obama slipped decades of violent U.S. foreign policy behind the phrase "whatever mistakes we have made," while asserting the morality of U.S. interventions.
Posted on Dec 12, 2009, Source: Consortium News
How a desire for bipartisanship and peace within his own party led Obama to appoint a hawkish cabal that pushed him to a renewed war in Afghanistan.
Posted on Oct 19, 2009, Source: Consortium News
The public option offers the only means for a reform to be quickly implemented and to demonstrate a beneficial effect for the people by 2010 and 2012.
Posted on Jul 6, 2009, Source: Consortium News
Remember, this is the woman Republicans wanted to put a heart beat away from the Presidency. When did the GOP become so irresponsible?
Posted on Jun 23, 2009, Source: Consortium News
Even in special-interest-dominated Washington, it's rare for politicians to so blatantly privilege a private industry over the will of the people.
Posted on Jun 13, 2009, Source: Consortium News
The estimated 119 million Americans wanting to join the public option has made the debate over it into a death match for the insurance industry
Posted on Jun 8, 2009, Source: Consortium News
Rarely has an issue more dramatically highlighted the question of whether our government represents the people's interests or an industry's.
Posted on Jun 5, 2009, Source: Consortium News
The starting point for many of the catastrophes confronting the United States today can be traced to Reagan's presidency.
Posted on Apr 16, 2009, Source: Consortium News
The right-wing media still pull the reins in DC, where they could sink the Obama presidency and even stymie a Democratic Congress.
Posted on Mar 3, 2009, Source: Consortium News
Republicans seem incapable of coming up with any other strategy than to seek Obama's destruction, much as they torpedoed Clinton.
Posted on Mar 3, 2009, Source: Consortium News
To the American Right, those are fighting words, and leading conservatives are foaming at the mouth.
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