Palin, Psy-Ops & 'Condescending' Libs
The neocon Washington Post slams "condescending" liberals while Sarah Palin mocks them condescendingly, says Robert Parry. February 9, 2010

Brits, Dutch Confront Illegal Iraq War
Unlike the United States, British and Dutch authorities have examined the illegality of the Iraq invasion in 2003, writes Peter Dyer. February 9, 2010

Shunning Howard Zinn's History
The mainstream U.S. media ignores or denigrates progressive viewpoints, like those of Howard Zinn, notes William Blum. February 7, 2010

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Lobbyists Ply GOP, Dem 'Retreats'
Big business lobbyists lurked on the sidelines of "retreats" by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, writes Michael Winship. February 5, 2010

Journalists Gopal, Parry with Peter B.
Anand Gopal talks about Afghanistan and Robert Parry analyzes America's political fix on Peter B. Colliins' Podcast #94. February 5, 2010

Why Obama Dodges CIA Reform
In recent years, politicians, including President Obama, have shied away from tough criticism of the CIA, says Melvin A. Goodman. February 4, 2010

An Edgy 'Edge of Darkness'
Mel Gibson's first on-screen performance in years mixes a murder mystery with layers of government secrecy, writes Lisa Pease. February 4, 2010

The Right Gets Itself 'Wired'
For years, the Right's media infrastructure had only one weak spot, the Internet, but now that is changing, says Robert Parry. February 3, 2010

Obama's Budget Ducks Pentagon Cuts
By exempting the Pentagon from a "freeze," President Obama tries to shield Democrats from GOP attacks, says Ivan Eland. February 2, 2010

Vietnam Replay on Afghan 'Defectors'
A new plan for bribing Afghan Taliban fighters to defect has a dark precedent in the Vietnam War, recalls Douglas Valentine. February 1, 2010

America's Sad History with Haiti, Part 2
Over the past two decades, the U.S. Right has helped sabotage Haiti's experiment with democracy, writes Lisa Pease. February 1, 2010

Answering Obama on Health Care
President Obama says he is open to any health-care idea that works, except for "Medicare for All," notes Kevin Zeese. February 1, 2010

Yoo, Bybee Get Pass on Torture Memo
A revised Justice Department report lets John Yoo and Jay Bybee off the hook for their torture memo, writes Jason Leopold. January 31, 2010

Accountability Again Put on Hold
More than a year after George W. Bush's departure, his crimes have still drawn no formal U.S. inquiry, notes David Swanson. January 31, 2010

Howard Zinn and Other Heroes
Three writers -- John Hope Franklin, Ivan Van Sertima and Howard Zinn -- changed how we see history, says William Loren Katz. January 31, 2010

America's Sorry History with Haiti
Amid talk about the U.S. rebuilding role in devastated Haiti, Lisa Pease takes a look back on past interventions. January 30, 2010

Remembering Howard Zinn
Daniel Ellsberg reflects on the courageous life and historic contributions of his friend Howard Zinn, who died Wednesday. January 29, 2010

Howard Zinn's 'War on Terror' Critique
Howard Zinn celebrated the work of rank-and-file Americans and lamented harm caused by the powerful, recalls Sherwood Ross. January 29, 2010

What's Wrong with US Intel Agencies
After decades of politicization, U.S. intelligence agencies need to rethink how they operate, argues Melvin A. Goodman. January 28, 2010

Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning
In agreeing to escalate the Afghan War, President Obama rebuffed dire warnings from the U.S. Ambassador, says Ray McGovern. January 27, 2010

The Supreme Court's Partisanship
By opening the floodgates on corporate campaign money, the Supreme Court has advanced the GOP cause, says Robert Parry. January 27, 2010

A Hockey Mom for Truth
The right-wing media uses "populism" to trick gullible Americans into siding with Big Corporations, writes Lynne Gillooly. January 27, 2010

Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness
From the Archive: Iraq's hanging of "Chemical Ali" -- like Saddam Hussein in 2006 -- means one less witness on Bush Family crimes. By Robert Parry

Shiite Power Play Threatens Iraq Quiet
Old neocon favorite Ahmed Chalabi is behind a purge of some political candidates from a key Iraqi election, notes Ivan Eland. January 26, 2010

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Once a month, we look back at some of the previous month's special stories. Here's a selection from December.

First, Fire All the Financial Failures
If President Obama wants to show he's on the people's side, he should fire officials tied to the bank failures, writes Mark Ames. January 24, 2010

US Democracy's End of the Road
A Supreme Court ruling on corporate campaign cash and the Left's errors have put U.S. democracy in danger, says Robert Parry. January 23, 2010

What Should Progressives Do Now?
After a devastating week, the American Left needs to regroup and fight back, writes Michael Winship. January 22, 2010

Massachusetts' Message of Stupid
Whatever Massachusetts thought it was saying with Scott Brown's Senate election, it was a message of stupid, says Robert Parry. January 21, 2010

Hiding War Horrors from Americans
The strength of U.S. war propaganda at home was to use the mainstream media as a propaganda conveyor belt, a study finds. January 21, 2010

How Obama Lost His Way
In his first year, President Obama comforted a shaken Establishment but neglected the hard-hit public, writes Robert Parry. January 20, 2010

George W. Bush's Sci-Fi Disaster
From the Archive: At the first anniversary of the Obama presidency, a look-back at the scene of George W. Bush's departure. By Robert Parry

Obama Knows Better on Afghan War
President Obama's skepticism about "boots on the ground" in some Muslim countries was forgotten in Afghanistan, Ivan Eland says. January 19, 2010

'Hardball' & Dumbed-Down US Politics
"Hardball" host Chris Matthews was clueless in his comments on Haiti and the Massachusetts Senate race, writes Robert Parry. January 19, 2010

What Bush Did to Haiti
Six years ago, President George W. Bush engineered the ouster of Haiti's elected president, recalls David Swanson. January 18, 2010

Global Cooling? The Jellyfish Answer
The Right's media twists complex scientific arguments to advance its global warming denial, writes Michael Winship. January 16, 2010

Lessons from America's Lost Decade
For the first time since the Great Depression, a decade -- George W. Bush's -- saw zero job growth, notes Robert Parry. January 15, 2010

How Not to Counter Terrorism
From the Archive: Ex-FBI Agent Coleen Rowley warned of flooding the counter-terror analysts with too much data. January 14, 2010

Haiti and America's Historic Debt
As Haiti suffers another natural disaster, few Americans know their historic debt to the Caribbean nation, observes Robert Parry. January 13, 2010

Cheney's Attack Shields Failures
Rather than face the Bush administration's failures, ex-Vice President Cheney has stayed on the attack, writes Ivan Eland. January 12, 2010

Asking Europe for America's Answers
Though many people live happier lives in Europe, Americans resist the idea of learning any of those lessons, writes David Swanson. January 12, 2010

Do Republicans Deserve a Reward?
Republican prospects are surging, even in Massachusetts where a special election could give the GOP a reward, says Robert Parry. January 11, 2010

Obama Picks CIA Insider for Inquiry
President Obama named CIA apologist John McLaughlin to probe Fort Hood and Christmas Day attacks, notes Melvin A. Goodman. January 11, 2010

Hard Lessons from Decades Past
As the world enters a dangerous new decade, Robert Parry reflects on what the previous three decades have wrought. January 9, 2010

Answering Helen Thomas on Why
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas broke through the terrorism boilerplate by asking why, Ray McGovern says. January 8, 2010

California's Dysfunctional Future Shock
The Republican Party has made a dangerous calculation that obstruction works politically, as Michael Winship sees in California. January 8, 2010

The Botched 9/11 Intel 'Reforms'
The 9/11 Commission's intelligence "reforms" added bureaucratic layers that made matters worse, writes Melvin A. Goodman. January 7, 2010

Endless Double Standards on Cuba
Cuba's arrest of a U.S. contractor is condemned by the U.S. news media which never sees its own hypocrisy, says William Blum. January 7, 2010

Why Counter-Terrorism Is in Shambles
The debate over who's to blame for missing the Christmas Day bomb plot misses the point, say Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowley. January 5, 2010

How Government Worsens Terror Risk
Politicians who scramble to show they're doing something about terrorism often make matters worse, notes Ivan Eland. January 5, 2010

The Myth of the Three Wise Men
The gospel story of "three wise men" following a star to Jesus's birthplace had a political significance, writes Rev. Howard Bess. January 5, 2010

Afghan 'Dirty War' Escalates
A U.S. commando raid killing 10 Afghanis and a bomb attack on a CIA base camp mark a worsening dirty war, says Douglas Valentine. January 4, 2010

Ellsberg on Vanunu's Re-Arrest
Israel's re-arrest of nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu should have prompted widespread outrage, writes Daniel Ellsberg. January 4, 2010

McGovern, Goodman on Terror Wars
Former CIA analysts Ray McGovern and Melvin Goodman discuss end-of-year terror developments on a Peter B. Collins podcast. January 4, 2010

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The New October Surprise Series:
At the 30th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, Robert Parry reviews the evidence of a history-changing Republican dirty trick. See below:

--How Two Elections Changed America
Secret Republican operations around elections in 1968 and 1980 set the U.S. on today's troubled course, says Robert Parry. November 4, 2009

--The Crazy October Surprise Debunking
To protect the Reagan-Bush-I legacy, Republicans and Democrats created absurd October Surprise alibis, reports Robert Parry. November 6, 2009

--The October Surprise Crystal Balls
A sub-plot of the 1980 October Surprise mystery is how some Reaganites foresaw the U.S. hostage release, says Robert Parry. November 13, 2009

Pinochet's Mad Scientist
From the Archive: Chile's Pinochet dictatorship stands accused of killing a rival with poisons, a mystery with deep roots. By Samuel Blixen.

Israeli Scholar Disputes Founding Myth
From the Archive: In a new book, Israeli scholar Shlomo Sand argues that the Roman-era Diaspora was a historical myth. By Morgan Strong.

Colin Powell's My Lai Connection
From the Archive: The Afghan War escalation recalls Colin Powell's tie to an earlier war and its war crimes. By Robert Parry and Norman Solomon.

Rev. Moon's Troubled Generation Next
From the Archive: The right-wing Washington Times is caught in a messy succession for Rev. Sun Myung Moon's empire. By Robert Parry.

Ronald Reagan's Bloody 'Apocalypto'
From the Archive: An irony of Columbus Day is that crimes of the early conquerors are better known than more recent atrocities. By Robert Parry

PanAm 103 Verdict: Justice or Politics?
From the Archive: The Obama administration won't question the weak evidence in the PanAm 103 bombing conviction. By William Blum

CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04
From the Archive: Osama bin Laden's pre-election video in 2004 was viewed at the CIA as a bid to boost George W. Bush. By Robert Parry

Bush's Conspiracy to Riot
From the Archive: Today's right-wing disruptions of health-care "town halls" harken back to George W. Bush's riot in 2000. By Robert Parry

The Left's Media Miscalculation
From the Archive: A lookback at that how the American Left squandered its media advantage and aided the Right's ascendancy. By Robert Parry

GOP & KAL007: 'The Key Is to Lie First'
From the Archive: A case study of how Ronald Reagan and the Republicans mastered the Big Lie a quarter century ago. By Robert Parry

The Wedding
From the Archive: An explanation of why Dick Cheney would be so audacious to hide a covert action from Congress. By Robert Parry

America's Matrix
From the Archive: A look-back at how we exposed George W. Bush's deceptions at the start of the Iraq War. By Robert Parry

Rev. Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
From the Archive: A look-back on the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's secret financial ties to North Korean and U.S. leaders. By Robert Parry

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A Cold Rain: Excerpt from Neck Deep
With George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001, the United States was at an ominous turning point, handing the White House and its immense power to a popular-vote loser who disdained democracy. Official Washington was oblivious to the danger, but thousands of Americans braved an icy rain to protest this travesty of the nation's principles.

Lost History: How the Neocons Did It
If you want to know how the neoconservatives got control of the most powerful nation on earth, Robert Parry’s Lost History is a must-read. (To read more, click here.)