Choose the Top Ten Consortium News Stories of 2018

Eeny, meeny mo but the best ten I just don’t know. What I do tend to look for are examples of the massive fraud perpetrated on the people of the world, with the relentless propaganda coming from a tiny minority of powerful people and institutions and how reckless and arrogant they have become.

Perhaps the most reckless is the ongoing attempt to unseat an elected president using the same clumsy but effective tactics they might have used when they have set their minds to regime change in weaker countries. They seem to have decided if we can do it in Ukraine, why not in America

What is at stake of course is the power of ordinary people to decide who shall govern, although this has already been compromised by the power of money and media concentration. Still the recent regime change attempt in America becomes a critical test for us.

How Yasser Arafat Led the Palestinians to Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
Seven Days in September
The Other Side of John McCain
Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews
It Started Over Lunch and Led to the exposure of One of the Greatest Scandals in U.S. History
VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC
‘A Very Different Journalist’: John Pilger’s Tribute to Bob Parry
Ahed Tamimi and Her Mother are Freed from Jail
America’s ‘Unlimited Imperialists’ Haspel Says CIA Won’t Torture Again as Ray McGovern is Dragged Out of Hearing

1. Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews; 2. The National Endowment for (Meddling in) Democracy;
3. The West is Failing Julian Assange; 4. Khashoggi Was No Critic of Saudi Regime; 5. ‘A Very Different Journalist’: John Pilger’s Tribute to Bob Parry; 6. Letter from Britain: The Real Reason for the ‘Anti-Semite’ Campaign Against Jeremy Corbyn; 7. How the Department of Homeland Security Created a Deceptive Tale of Russia Hacking US Voter Sites; 8. The Other Side of John McCain; 9. Bob Parry: Holding Government and Media to Account; 10. The New York Times as Judge and Jury

How the Department of Homeland Security Created a Deceptive Tale of Russia Hacking US Voter Sites

Letter from Britain—Lost in a Brexit Maze: a Baffled Political Class Dreads the Prospect of Jeremy Corbyn

National Exclusive: Former Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Son and California Powerbroker Found Bilking Indian Tribe

The Shaky Case That Russia Manipulated Social Media to Tip the 2016 Election

Clinging to Collusion: Why Evidence Will Probably Never Be Produced in the Indictments of ‘Russian Agents’

The New York Times as Judge and Jury

The Gray Lady Thinks Twice About Assange’s Prosecution

The Battle for Our Minds

Welcome to the Jungle

VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC

There are some dogs that didn’t bark, an afterthought, I might remark,
Though casual it seems perhaps, one wonders at the seeming lapse.
A few days left could still produce a bombshell story to adduce.
The fields are fertile. Fevered brows could still achieve and might arouse
That gnawing doubt that deeply binds those curious, inquiring minds.
Returning faithful pilgrims wait, though revelations abdicate,
Unfinished stories tantalize, without the scope to galvanize,
They disappear or then diverge, the denouement fails to emerge.
The ship has cast its lines unmoored, the swimmers left behind are lured,
There’s little hope salvation waits, their hope misplaced, delusion baits-
How fine their courage now prevails against the tide and billowed sails?
The time to get aboard has passed, alas the distance now amassed
Precludes redemption there afloat, because when needed to promote,
Their courage failed when names were called and falsehood was installed.
To state the obvious was banned. “Outrageous theories mustn’t stand”,
The labels they astutely planned succeeded and the guns were manned.
Relentless doubt fails to demand and Reichstag fires still command,
The “triumph of the will” astounds and “victory of faith” confounds,
Courage found too late betrays the truth as but an empty phrase:
Consensus lays to waste with lies repeated thus to canonize.
There are some tales still left untold, perhaps in time they may unfold,
The time is short, the stakes are high, the ship has sailed, but some may try.
The distance gathers with the storm, the pundits scoff and chide reform,
The ship of reason still in view has sailed abandoned by its crew,
Her banners wave and rigging sings, her sails once vanquished tyrant kings,
Too late the far horizon hails, the eye now scarcely spots her sails,
Upon the mists of glories past soon disappears her tallest mast,
A few intrepid swimmers race against the tide her ghost to pace,
Their chances slim and maybe none, such denizens to be outdone
Are lurking in the murky deep intent upon a rendezvous such myrmidons must keep.