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Bush End Game
George W. Bush's presidency since 2007

Bush - Second Term
George W. Bush's presidency from 2005-06

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George W. Bush's presidency, 2000-04

Who Is Bob Gates?
The secret world of Defense Secretary Gates

The Sarah Palin Chronicles
Tales of Sarah Palin

2008 Campaign
Bush Succession

2004 Campaign
Bush Bests Kerry

Behind Colin Powell's Legend
Gauging Powell's reputation.

The 2000 Campaign
Recounting the controversial campaign.

Media Crisis
Is the national media a danger to democracy?

The Clinton Scandals
Behind President Clinton's impeachment.

Nazi Echo
Pinochet & Other Characters.

The Dark Side of Rev. Moon
Rev. Sun Myung Moon and American politics.

Contra Crack
Contra drug stories uncovered

Lost History
America's tainted historical record

The October Surprise "X-Files"
The 1980 election scandal exposed.

International
From free trade to the Kosovo crisis.

Other Investigative Stories

Editorials

Our year-end fundraiser is down about 60 percent from last year, putting the survival of our unique journalistic operation in jeopardy.

We realize that times are tough – and there are many worthy causes – but Consortiumnews.com has been there for the past 13 years providing serious investigative journalism for you, our readers.

Indeed, viewed as a whole, we have created an important counter-narrative to Washington’s misguided conventional wisdom, the false narrative that has led the Republic into its current mess.

So keeping this Web site alive is important. Our annual operating budget is only about $125,000 – and there’s only so much more belt-tightening we can do. Already our little staff has absorbed one month of payless paydays. We also have had to cut the modest payments to our freelance writers.

If we have to close down, our journalistic narrative will die, too.

When you have a minute, I invite you to go back to the Consortiumnews.com home page and look over the stories just from December. Those original works of journalism told truths that otherwise would have remained unknown or, at best, they would have drawn far less attention.

Those stories include:

--Detailed warnings about some of Barack Obama’s top Cabinet choices, particularly Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

--George W. Bush’s exit-interview lies about his justification for invading Iraq, such as his bizarre claim that Saddam Hussein didn’t let the U.N. weapons inspectors in.

--The anti-war context of Martin Luther King’s “fierce urgency of now” quote, which was a staple of Obama’s campaign speeches but always without the crucial context.

--The historical significance of President Lyndon Johnson’s taped remark about the “treason” of Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign in sabotaging Vietnam peace talks.

--President Bush’s personal responsibility for his administration’s torture policies, a key point from a Senate report that was widely ignored or downplayed by the mainstream news media.

--The tragedy of Gary Webb’s death and his important contribution to American history by forcing devastating admissions from the CIA about drug trafficking by its clients, the Nicaraguan contras.

--The need for President-elect Obama to take a more balanced look at the tensions with Russia.

--The U.S. news media’s acquiescence to the Bush administration’s arguments on the value of torture and the success of the “surge” – and how those myths could limit Obama’s actions.

--Vice President Dick Cheney’s brazen defense of torture and his challenge to a core American principle, the rule of law.

--Henry Kissinger's role in undermining American democracy at key junctures in the past.

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Robert Parry, Editor

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 as the Internet's first investigative magazine. He saw it as a way to combine modern technology and old-fashioned journalism to counter the increasing triviality of the mainstream U.S. news media.

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