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Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995
Glenn Greenwald’s Call Same as Bob Parry’s in 1995 After resigning from The Intercept when it suppressed one of his stories, Greenwald is calling for a new news outlet whose aim is the same as what the creator of this website established in November 1995. Robert Parry receiving the 2017 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London […]
Covering the Julian Assange Story
Covering the Julian Assange Story With corporate TV and press abandoning the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher, Consortium News has been in the forefront among alternative media in chronicling his plight. But we can’t do it without you. Assange outside UK Supreme Court in 2011. (Flickr) Except for a brief moment after his dramatic arrest, the mainstream media has abandoned Julian Assange. […]
ROBERT PARRY: All Investigative Journalists Do What Julian Assange Did
ROBERT PARRY: All Investigative Journalists Do What Julian Assange Did The U.S. has indicted Julian Assange for encouraging his source to give more information and for trying to protect his source’s identity, what all journalist routinely do, said one of the greatest investigative journalists of our time. Parry is writing here about the Obama […]
Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing
Hold the Front Page, the Reporters are Missing Photo Source Lisa Abitbol/Nieman Foundation for Journalism | CC BY 2.0 The death of Robert Parry earlier this year felt like a farewell to the age of the reporter. Parry was “a trailblazer for independent journalism”, wrote Seymour Hersh, with whom he shared much in common. Hersh […]
Journalists Are All Julian Assange
Journalists Are All Julian Assange As Ecuador threatens to expel Julian Assange, CN Ed. Joe Lauria will speak in a 50-hr. online vigil for Assange on Sat., 8pm EDT. In 2010, Bob Parry, late CN founder & editor, wrote this incisive essay on Assange’s vital work. Whatever the unusual aspects of the case, the Obama administration’s […]
Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth
Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth FROM THE ARCHIVES: In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don’t hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reported Robert Parry on Oct. 28, 2017. As Russia-gate becomes the go-to excuse to marginalize and suppress independent and […]
The Rise of the New McCarthyism
The Rise of the New McCarthyism From the Archive: On March 9, 1954, Senate Republicans criticized Joe McCarthy’s overreaches and took action to limit his power, marking the end of McCarthyism. On the anniversary of that event, we republish an article on the New McCarthyism by Robert Parry. Make no mistake about it: the United States […]
The Other Side of the Post’s Katharine Graham
The Other Side of the Post’s Katharine Graham Hollywood loves to make heroes of The Washington Post for the rare moments when it has stood up for journalism – while forgetting the blood-soaked cases of the Post spreading lies to justify wars, writes Norman Solomon. Movie critics are already hailing “The Post,” directed by Steven […]
Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections Exclusive: As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue, reports Robert Parry. The U.S. mainstream media’s year-long hysteria over Russia’s alleged role in the election of Donald […]
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship Exclusive: Arriving behind the anti-Trump “resistance” and the Russia-gate “scandal” is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives, writes Robert Parry. A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s […]
The Legacy of Reagan’s Civilian ‘Psyops’
The Legacy of Reagan’s Civilian ‘Psyops’ Special Report: When the Reagan administration launched peacetime “psyops” in the mid-1980s, it pulled in civilian agencies to help spread these still-ongoing techniques of deception and manipulation, reports Robert Parry. Declassified records from the Reagan presidential library show how the U.S. government enlisted civilian agencies in psychological operations designed […]
The Rise of the New McCarthyism
The Rise of the New McCarthyism Special Report: As the New McCarthyism takes hold in America, the neocon Washington Post makes Russia the villain in virtually every bad thing that happens, with U.S. dissidents treated as “fellow-travelers,” writes Robert Parry. Make no mistake about it: the United States has entered an era of a New […]
Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism
Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism Exclusive: President Trump’s U.N. speech showed that despite his America First rhetoric, his policies are virtually the same as the neocon strategies of George W. Bush and liberal interventionism of Barack Obama, says Robert Parry. In discussing President Trump, there is always the soft prejudice of low expectations – […]
The NYT’s Yellow Journalism on Russia
The NYT’s Yellow Journalism on Russia Exclusive: The New York Times’ descent into yellow journalism over Russia recalls the sensationalism of Hearst and Pulitzer leading to the Spanish-American War, but the risks to humanity are much greater now, writes Robert Parry. Reading The New York Times these days is like getting a daily dose of […]
