Stories by Robert Parry
Robert Parry's new book is Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq."
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, Source: Consortium News
If elected, would Hillary Clinton sweep Bush White House scandals under the rug like her husband did?
Posted on Oct 5, 2007, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
Friedman botched the biggest foreign-policy story since the Cold War but those who got it right are naïve?
Posted on Aug 21, 2006, Source: Consortium News
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, Source: Consortium News
Contrary to the official story, the Bush administration did whatever it could to help Enron as the company began to go under.
Posted on May 30, 2006, Source: Consortium News
Intelligence Czar John Negroponte splashes cold water on the neocons who are hot to attack Iran.
Posted on May 4, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com
Iraq War coverage has destroyed the image of the press as the institution that brought you Watergate.
Posted on Mar 21, 2006, Source: Consortium News
Bush has bounced us from the moral high ground but the press still doesn't get it.
Posted on Mar 1, 2006, Source: Consortium News
The New York Times doesn't have a good explanation for why it waited until after the 2004 election to print a devastating report against the White House.
Posted on Dec 19, 2005, Source: Consortium News
Still the first person to publicly out Valerie Plame, Bob Novak fires back using ammunition supplied by discredited 'reporter' Jeff 'Gannon' Guckert.
Posted on Aug 3, 2005, Source: Consortium News
Democrats have been emboldened by a thriving progressive media able to amplify their message, but will the old guard learn the lesson?
Posted on Apr 29, 2005, Source: Consortium News
The problem with the CIA -- and the Washington establishment -- is cultural, systemic, even ethical, not structural.
Posted on Apr 6, 2005, Source: Consortium News
Rather than pointing toward an exit for the United States, the Iraq election may just lead U.S. troops deeper into Iraq's long and bloody history of sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites.
Posted on Feb 4, 2005, Source: Consortium News
Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher are not breaking new ground in accepting money for favorable coverage. The ethical line separating conservative "journalism" from government propaganda has long since been wiped away.
Posted on Feb 2, 2005, Source: Consortium News
The real tragedy of journalist Webb’s historic gift – and of his life cut short – is that because of the major news media’s cowardice, a dark chapter of the Reagan-Bush era remains largely unknown to the American people.
Posted on Dec 14, 2004, Source: Consortium News
The number one priority of a post-election progressive strategy should be investing in alternative media outlets.
Posted on Nov 9, 2004, Source: Consortium News
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