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Robert Parry: America's Slide to Totalitarianism
Wednesday, 8 November 2006, 1:38 pm | Robert Parry
If the last-minute polling trends showing a powerful Republican comeback carry through the Nov. 7 elections, the end of America as we have known it for more than two centuries will be at hand. More >>
Robert Parry: America's Point of No Return
Monday, 6 November 2006, 2:24 pm | Robert Parry
Now that George W. Bush has reframed Election 2006 around John Kerry's "botched joke" and the notion that a Democratic victory means "the terrorists win," Americans must begin looking seriously at what the continuation of Republican majorities in ... More >>
Robert Parry: Al-Qaeda Wants Republicans to Win
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 2:49 pm | Robert Parry
George W. Bush's blunt assertion that a Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 elections means "the terrorists win and America loses" misses the point that Osama bin Laden stands to advance his strategic goals much faster with a Republican victory. More >>
Robert Parry: All the President's Lies
Wednesday, 1 November 2006, 11:27 am | Robert Parry
Many Americans are cynical about what they hear from politicians - and often with good reason - but perhaps no U.S. political leader in modern history has engaged in a pattern of lying and distortion more systematically than George W. Bush has. More >>
Robert Parry: The Original October Surprise (3)
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 11:44 am | Robert Parry
Part 3 of our series about the "Original October Surprise" of 1980 addresses the troubling question of whether disgruntled CIA officers collaborated with their former boss, George H.W. Bush, to sabotage President Jimmy Carter's Iran-hostage negotiations ... More >>
Robert Parry: Misreading Al-Qaeda On Iraq
Monday, 30 October 2006, 11:51 am | Robert Parry
Peter Bergen, an influential expert on al-Qaeda, says a long-term U.S. military presence is needed in Iraq to thwart the terrorist group's strategic goals. But Bergen appears to be basing his conclusion on a misunderstanding of recent intercepted internal ... More >>
Robert Parry: The Original October Surprise (2)
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:07 am | Robert Parry
Consortium News Editor's Note: Part 2 of our series about the "Original October Surprise" of 1980 focuses on the role of banker David Rockefeller and his collaboration with Republicans during the Iranian hostage crisis, which doomed Jimmy Carter's presidency ... More >>
Robert Parry: The Original October Surprise
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:31 pm | Robert Parry
As the United States heads toward a pivotal election on Nov. 7, both Republicans and Democrats are worried about the prospect of an "October Surprise" that could alter the political dynamic in the next two weeks. More >>
Robert Parry: How Democrats Might Blow It
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 10:35 am | Robert Parry
As Democrats go through their biennial rite of premature victory celebrations, they are inviting defeat again by obsessing on polls about how many congressional seats are "in play" rather than on explaining to the American people what a Republican ... More >>
Robert Parry: Shame on Us All
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 2:27 pm | Robert Parry
From the noble American ideal of each human being possessing "unalienable rights" as declared by the Founders 230 years ago amid the ringing of bells in Philadelphia, the United States effectively rescinded that concept on a dreary fall day in Washington. More >>
Robert Parry: Foley "October Surprise" Claim Flops
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 11:06 am | Robert Parry
George W. Bush's snide aside aside, the Republican "October Surprise" theory accusing Democrats of waiting until the final weeks of Campaign 2006 to spring the Mark Foley page-sex scandal appears to have collapsed. More >>
Robert Parry: Bush and His Dangerous Delusions
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:22 am | Robert Parry
In George W. Bush's world, Saddam Hussein defied United Nations demands that he get rid of his weapons of mass destruction and barred U.N. inspectors; al-Qaeda's public statements must be believed even when contradicted by its private comments; ... More >>
Robert Parry: Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
Friday, 13 October 2006, 1:17 pm | Robert Parry
Given the nuclear crisis involving North Korea, we are republishing, with minor revisions, this six-year-old article about millions of dollars allegedly funneled from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon - The Washington Times founder and a Bush family financial backer ... More >>
Robert Parry: Bush's Tough-Talkin' Korean Bungle
Wednesday, 11 October 2006, 11:50 am | Robert Parry
Months before 9/11 and the "global war on terror" - and two years before the Iraq War - George W. Bush tested out his tough-talkin' diplomacy on communist North Korea. Bush combined harsh rhetoric and intimidating tactics to demonstrate to Pyongyang ... More >>
Robert Parry: How to Avoid World War III
Friday, 29 September 2006, 10:24 am | Robert Parry
Typical was one e-mail that asserted, "they started it; now we're going to finish it." But I'm never clear who "they" are or exactly what "it" is. If "they" are the Sunni Islamic fundamentalist terrorists of al-Qaeda and "it" is 9/11, U.S. More >>
Robert Parry: Bush's "Dirty War" Amnesty Law
Monday, 25 September 2006, 2:28 pm | Robert Parry
The United States is following the lead of "dirty war" nations, such as Argentina and Chile, in enacting what amounts to an amnesty law protecting U.S. government operatives, apparently up to and including President George W. Bush, who have committed ... More >>
Robert Parry: Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism
Monday, 25 September 2006, 1:49 pm | Robert Parry
Chilean investigators say the Bush administration is undercutting their case against former dictator Augusto Pinochet for his alleged role in the terrorist assassination of a political rival on the streets of Washington three decades ago, a crime that ... More >>
Robert Parry: The Bushes and the Truth About Iran
Friday, 22 September 2006, 12:23 am | Robert Parry
The Bushes and the Truth About Iran By Robert Parry Consortium News & Truthout.org Thursday 21 September 2006 More >>
Robert Parry: Bush's Way or the Highway
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 2:26 pm | Robert Parry
George W. Bush's Sept. 15 outburst - threatening to stop interrogating terror suspects if Congress doesn't let him revise the Geneva Conventions to permit coercive techniques - is part of a pattern of petulance that dates back to even before the 9/11 attacks ... More >>
Robert Parry: New Clues in the Plame Mystery
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:07 am | Robert Parry
A well-placed conservative source has added an important clue to the mystery of the Bush administration's "outing" of CIA officer Valerie Plame after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, became one of the first Establishment figures to ... More >>
