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Robert Parry is a longtime investigative reporter who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 to create an outlet for well-reported journalism that was being squeezed out of an increasingly trivialized U.S. news media.
I can’t post comment on Cala article either. There is a password but it is not accepted.
I would like to comment on the new Pilar article on N Korea ‘terrorism’ but I cant. There is no password to copy.
Mr. Parry,
Thanks for running an indispensable journalism operation. I encountered this site while fleeing in despair from the over-the-top propagandistic “coverage” of the Ukraine crisis at the New York Times. I cant them seriously at this point and I am glad that sanity prevails somewhere else.
I agree with your statement on the comment section. People should treat reporting and commentary they respect with comments that can be respected.