From the Archive: One of the great battles of Danny Schechter’s life was the fight to end apartheid in South Africa, but he never soft-pedaled the challenges the country continued to face nor did he accept the revisionist history minimizing the role of millions…
Year: 2015
The Iron Law of Oligarchy Returns
From the Archive: The death of Danny Schechter, “the News Dissector,” at age 72 from cancer marks a sad moment for independent journalism. Schechter’s was a strong voice against the empty platitudes and blatant hypocrisies that have come to define modern…
A Plan to Legalize Pot But Ban Advertising
Ukraine’s Poison Pill for Peace Talks
America’s Dead-End in the Middle East
Exclusive: When columnist Thomas L. Friedman suggests the U.S. should arm ISIS thus joining the Saudi-Israeli regional war on Iran and the Shiites it seems time to question the sanity of U.S. opinion- and policy-makers. But that is where the muddled U.S.…
Netanyahu Unmasks Israel
America’s Netanyahu Dilemma
Israeli voters rewarded Prime Minister Netanyahu for his scare-mongering and race-baiting with a solid electoral victory. Most significantly, Netanyahu prevailed by discarding the facade of a possible Palestinian state, forcing U.S. officials to face a grim reality, as ex-CIA analyst Paul…
The Mysterious Death of a UN Hero
Problems with the Comment Section
From Editor Robert Parry: Our Web site was knocked off line for several hours on Tuesday because of a flood of fake comments into the Comment section. That has required us to eliminate some comment files and to install a more…
A Neocon Admits the Plan to Bomb Iran
Exclusive: The neocon Washington Post, which wants to kill the talks aimed at constraining Iran’s nuclear program, allowed a contrary opinion of sorts onto its pages a neocon who also wants to collapse the talks but is honest enough to…