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R. Parry: Gore's Other Global Warning - Iraq War
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 9:05 am | Robert Parry
As Al Gore steps into the national spotlight because of the Academy Awards and his global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," it's worth remembering that in fall 2002 Gore sought to warn the American people about another "inconvenient truth," ... More >>
Robert Parry: Bush Is Hiding the Ball on Iran
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 11:02 pm | Robert Parry
George W. Bush is again guiding the nation toward a preemptive war - this time with Iran - without allowing anything like a full debate of the underlying facts, probable consequences of the conflict or peaceful alternatives. More >>
Robert Parry: Who's Helping the Terrorists?
Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:02 am | Robert Parry
Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz was given prime space on the Washington Post's Op-Ed page to question the wisdom and the patriotism of Americans who disagree with George W. Bush's long war against Muslim militants. More >>
Robert Parry: Bush's War on the Republic
Saturday, 27 January 2007, 10:06 pm | Robert Parry
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 - a propaganda exercise that continued through his 2007 State of the Union Address and that is sounding ... More >>
Robert Parry: Reverend Moon's Anti-Obama Agit-Prop
Thursday, 25 January 2007, 10:35 am | Robert Parry
If you've ever wondered how agit-propaganda works, you might take a look at the latest case study from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's media empire - a bogus story about Barack Obama attending a Muslim "madrassah" when he was six years old, a smear that ... More >>
Robert Parry: Gonzales Questions Habeas Corpus
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:04 am | Robert Parry
In one of the most chilling public statements ever made by a U.S. Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales questioned whether the U.S. Constitution grants habeas corpus rights of a fair trial to every American. More >>
Robert Parry: Scooter Libby's Time-Travel Trial
Friday, 19 January 2007, 10:11 am | Robert Parry
The trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is being billed by the Big Media as a case study of a favorite Washington cliché - "it's not the crime but the coverup" - a smugly delivered line suggesting that Libby committed no real ... More >>
Robert Parry: The US-Iran-Iraq-Israeli-Syrian War
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:38 pm | Robert Parry
At a not-for-quotation pre-speech briefing on Jan. 10, George W. Bush and his top national security aides unnerved network anchors and other senior news executives with suggestions that a major confrontation with Iran is looming. More >>
Robert Parry: Bush's Rush to Armageddon
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 10:43 pm | Robert Parry
George W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence officials who were obstacles to a wider war in the Middle East, broadening his options for both escalating the conflict inside Iraq and expanding the fighting to Iran and Syria with Israel's help. More >>
Robert Parry: The GOP's $3 Bn Propaganda Organ
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:07 pm | Robert Parry
The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran ... More >>
Robert Parry: A Very Dangerous New Year
Friday, 22 December 2006, 10:13 am | Robert Parry
The first two or three months of 2007 represent a dangerous opening for an escalation of war in the Middle East, as George W. Bush will be tempted to "double-down" his gamble in Iraq by joining with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and outgoing British ... More >>
Robert Parry: Ronald Reagan's Bloody "Apocalypto"
Monday, 18 December 2006, 12:32 am | Robert Parry
Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto," a violent capture-and-escape movie set 500 years ago in a brutal Mayan society, ends ironically when European explorers arrive and interrupt the final bloody chase. More >>
Robert Parry: A Way Forward, a Look Back
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:49 am | Robert Parry
The abrupt resignation of the Saudi ambassador to the United States and the postponement of George W. Bush's new Iraq policy speech mark a troubling new chapter for a U.S. strategy for the Middle East that continues to spiral toward catastrophe. More >>
Robert Parry: Pinochet's Death Spares Bush Family
Wednesday, 13 December 2006, 3:07 pm | Robert Parry
Gen. Augusto Pinochet's death on Dec. 10 means the Bush Family can breathe a little bit easier, knowing that criminal proceedings against Chile's notorious dictator can no longer implicate his longtime friend and protector, former President George ... More >>
Robert Parry: Gary Webb's Death - American Tragedy
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 1:45 pm | Robert Parry
When Americans ask me what happened to the vaunted U.S. press corps over the past three decades - in the decline from its heyday of the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers to its failure to challenge the Iraq WMD lies or to hold George W. Bush accountable ... More >>
Robert Parry: Time for Bush to Go!
Monday, 11 December 2006, 5:14 pm | Robert Parry
George W. Bush had a point when he disparaged the Baker-Hamilton commission's plan for gradual troop withdrawals from Iraq by saying "this business about graceful exit just simply has no realism to it whatsoever." It's now obvious that there can be ... More >>
Robert Parry: Gates Hearing Has New Urgency
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 6:09 pm | Robert Parry
George W. Bush's back-of-the-hand to the Baker-Hamilton commission's Iraq War troop drawdown plan - and the disclosure that Bush ousted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld after he sought a major shift in war policy - has given new urgency to the Dec. 5 ... More >>
Robert Parry: America: What to Do Next?
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:14 pm | Robert Parry
The Nov. 7 elections took the wind out of the blowhard sails that had been driving the United States toward the shoals of endless war abroad and authoritarianism at home. But the ship of state still finds itself buffeted in very stormy seas, with ... More >>
Robert Parry: The Secret World of Robert Gates
Friday, 10 November 2006, 11:22 am | Robert Parry
The Secret World of Robert Gates By Robert Parry Consortium News - Truthout.org Thursday 09 November 2006 More >>
Robert Parry: American Voters Just Say No
Thursday, 9 November 2006, 1:10 pm | Robert Parry
By a surprisingly decisive margin, American voters rejected George W. Bush's designs for transforming the United States into a one-party government run by an all-powerful executive waging endless war abroad and throttling constitutional liberties at home. More >>
