At Consortiumnews, we combine reporting on current events with the historical context that gives those events meaning, a context that is often lacking in the mainstream media. So a selection of our stories from 2014 offers an intriguing way to look back and to understand the pivotal events of the year just ended.
January
“Forgetting Why Al-Qaeda Spread” by Robert Parry, Jan. 5, 2014
“NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong,” Jan. 7, 2014
“Robert Gates Double-Crosses Obama” by Robert Parry, Jan. 8, 2014
“NSA’s Preference for Metadata” by Kirk Wiebe, Jan. 13, 2014
“How NSA Invites Totalitarianism” by Arjen Kamphuis, Jan. 17, 2014
“The Mistaken Guns of Last August” by Robert Parry, Jan. 20, 2014
“The Crumbling Lockerbie Case” by John Ashton, Jan. 26, 2014
“No Tears for the Real Robert Gates” by Ray McGovern, Jan. 27, 2014
“FDR’s Legacy of Can-Do Government” by Barbara Bandler, Jan. 30, 2014
February
“Hugo Chavez’s Legacy at Risk” by Andres Cala, Feb. 4, 2014
“When the CIA’s Empire Struck Back” by Lisa Pease, Feb. 6, 2014
“Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite?” by Robert Parry, Feb. 10, 2014
“Syria at the Edge of ‘Shock Doctrine’” by Rob Prince, Feb. 15, 2014
“Does Nixon’s ‘Treason’ Boost LBJ’s Legacy?” by Robert Parry, Feb. 16, 2014
“Cuba Inches Toward New Future” by Andres Cala, Feb. 17, 2014
“The Best and Worst US Presidents” by Robert Parry, Feb. 18, 2014
“Hillary Clinton’s Unlearned Lessons” by Robert Parry, Feb. 20, 2014
“Neocons and the Ukraine Coup” by Robert Parry, Feb. 23, 2014
“A New Neocon Push for Syrian War” by Coleen Rowley, Feb. 24, 2014
“Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine” by Robert Parry, Feb. 26, 2014
“A Shadow US Foreign Policy” by Robert Parry, Feb. 27, 2014
March
“Ukraine: One ‘Regime Change’ Too Many?” by Ray McGovern, March 1, 2014
“What Neocons Want from Ukraine Crisis” by Robert Parry, March 2, 2014
“Putin or Kerry: Who’s Delusional?” by Robert Parry, March 5, 2014
“The ‘We-Hate-Putin’ Group Think” by Robert Parry, March 7, 2014
“The West’s ‘War on Democracy’” by Annie Machon, March 11, 2014
“How Reagan Enforced US Hypocrisy” by Robert Parry, March 11, 2014
“Neocons Have Weathered the Storm” by Robert Parry, March 14, 2014
“Corporate Interests Behind Ukraine Putsch” by JP Sottile, March 16, 2014
“Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine” by Robert Parry, March 16, 2014
“Europe’s Not So Shiny ‘Recovery’” by Andres Cala, March 17, 2014
“Neocons’ Ukraine-Syria-Iran Gambit” by Robert Parry, March 19, 2014
“Robert Strauss’s Watergate Secret” by Robert Parry, March 20, 2014
“Crimea and Punishment” by Lorraine Bartlett, March 21, 2014
“Obama Ensnared in Bush’s Abuses” by Coleen Rowley, March 24, 2014
“Why Europe Shies from Ukraine Showdown” by Andres Cala, March 26, 2014
“The Danger of False Narrative” by Robert Parry, March 27, 2014
“Ukraine’s Inconvenient Neo-Nazis” by Robert Parry, March 30, 2014
April
“We’re All Cheneyites Now” by Todd E. Pierce, April 1, 2014
“Ukrainians Get IMF’s Bitter Medicine” by Robert Parry, April 2, 2014
“The Torture Report’s Long, Winding Road” by Nat Parry, April 6, 2014
“Was Turkey Behind Syria-Sarin Attack” by Robert Parry, April 6, 2014
“When Is a Putsch a Putsch” by Robert Parry, April 8, 2014
“Reagan-Bush Ties to Iran Hostage Crisis” by Robert Parry, April 9, 2014
“’War Wise’ Skepticism Prevailed on Syria” by Nat Parry, April 11, 2014
“What’s the Matter with John Kerry” by Robert Parry, April 14, 2014
“What Venezuelan Regime Change Could Mean” by Andres Cala, April 15, 2014
“Ukraine Through the US ‘Looking Glass’” by Robert Parry, April 16, 2014
“The Dangerous Neocon-R2P Alliance” by Robert Parry, April 18, 2014
“Telling the Truth about Easter” by Rev. Howard Bess, April 19, 2014
“Trying Not to Give Peace a Chance” by Ray McGovern, April 20, 2014
“Prepping for a Ukrainian Massacre” by Robert Parry, April 22, 2014
“NYT Retracts Russian Photo Scoop” by Robert Parry, April 23, 2014
“Beneath the Ukraine Crisis: Shale Gas” by Nat Parry, April 24, 2014
“John Kerry’s Sad Circle to Deceit” by Robert Parry, April 25, 2014
“Killing the Putin-Obama ‘Trust’” by Ray McGovern, April 28, 2014
“Kerry’s Propaganda War on Russia’s RT” by Ray McGovern, April 30, 2104
“Behind Oklahoma’s Ghoulish Execution” by Richard L. Fricker, April 30, 2014
May
“Who’s the Propagandist: US or RT?” by Robert Parry, May 1, 2014
“A People’s War in East Ukraine” by Daniel Patrick Welch, May 3, 2014
“Ukraine’s Dr. Strangelove Reality” by Robert Parry, May 5, 2014
“The Inconvenient Truth about Jesus” by Rev. Howard Bess, May 8, 2014
“Putin’s Subtle Message to Obama” by Robert Parry, May 8, 2014
“Ethnic Russians Are People Too” by Robert Parry, May 13, 2014
“How NATO Jabs Russia on Ukraine” by Ray McGovern, May 15, 2014
“The Bloody Victory at Monte Cassino” by Don North, May 18, 2014
“Covert US Military Training Goes to Africa” by William R. Polk, May 30, 2014
June
“Picketty’s Exploration of Modern Capital” by Jim DiEugenio, June 3, 2014
“The Real Villains of the Bergdahl Tale” by Ray McGovern, June 4, 2014
“The Only Standards Are Double Standards” by Robert Parry, June 4, 2014
“Hillary Clinton’s Hawkish Legacy” by JP Sottile, June 5, 2014
“Tracing the Source of Income Inequality” by Jim DiEugenio, June 6, 2014
“How Snowden Changed the World” by Annie Machon, June 6, 2014
“Leaving the USS Liberty Crew Behind” by Ray McGovern, June 8, 2014
“Learning No Lessons About War” by William R. Polk, June 16, 2014
“Obama at a Crossroad of War or Peace” by Robert Parry, June 18, 2014
“Obama’s True Foreign Policy ‘Weakness’” by Robert Parry, June 23, 2014
“America’s Blunderbuss Wars” by William R. Polk, June 24, 2014
“Who Violated Ukraine’s Sovereignty?” by Ray McGovern, June 28, 2014
“Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism” by William R. Polk, June 29, 2104
July
“The Risk of a Ukraine Bloodbath” by Ray McGovern, July 2, 2014
“Thomas Jefferson: America’s Founding Sociopath” by Robert Parry, July 4, 2014
“An Insider’s View of Nixon’s ‘Treason’” by Robert Parry, July 5, 2014
“Plunging toward Armageddon in Israel” by William R. Polk, July 9, 2014
“No Lessons Learned at the NYT” by Robert Parry, July 11, 2014
“The Human Price of Neocon Havoc” by Robert Parry, July 17, 2014
“What Is Israel’s End Game in Gaza?” by Dennis Kucinich, July 18, 2014
“Facts Needed on Malaysian Plane Shoot-down” by Ray McGovern, July 18, 2014
“Airline Horror Spurs New Rush to Judgment” by Robert Parry, July 19, 2014
“What Did Spy Satellites See in Ukraine?” by Robert Parry, July 20, 2014
“Kerry’s Latest Reckless Rush to Judgment” by Robert Parry, July 21, 2014
“The Mystery of a Ukrainian Army ‘Defector’” by Robert Parry, July 22, 2014
“US Complicity in Israeli War Crimes” by Paul Findley, July 25, 2014
August
“Flight 17 Shoot-Down Scenario Shifts” by Robert Parry, Aug. 3, 2014
“Israel’s Bloody but Hollow ‘Victory’” by Andres Cala, Aug. 5, 2014
“The Long Reach of Vietnam War Deceptions” by Todd E. Pierce, Aug. 6, 2014
“Was Putin Targeted for Mid-Air Assassination?” by Robert Parry, Aug. 8, 2014
“The Heinous Crime Behind Watergate” by Robert Parry, Aug. 9, 2014
“NYT Discovers Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis at War” by Robert Parry, Aug. 10, 2014
“The Rear-Guard Defense of Torture” by Ray McGovern, Aug. 12, 2014
“The Berlin Wall and Missed Opportunities” by Ray McGovern, Aug. 13, 2014
“The Hushed-Up Hitler Factor in Ukraine” by Dovid Katz, Aug. 16, 2014
“The Powerful ‘Group Think’ on Ukraine” by Robert Parry, Aug. 18, 2014
“Behind Obama’s ‘Chaotic’ Foreign Policy” by Robert Parry, Aug. 21, 2014
“Russia’s Humanitarian ‘Invasion’” by Ray McGovern, Aug. 23, 2014
“Forgetting Cheney’s Legacy of Lies” by Ray McGovern, Aug. 27, 2014
September
“Who’s Telling the ‘Big Lie’ on Ukraine” by Robert Parry, Sept. 2, 2014
“The Whys Behind the Ukraine Crisis” by Robert Parry, Sept. 3, 2014
“Fleshing Out Nixon’s Vietnam Treason” by James DiEugenio, Sept. 7, 2014
“Malaysia Airlines Whodunnit Still a Mystery” by Robert Parry, Sept. 9, 2014
“The Earlier 9/11 Acts of Terror” by Jonathan Marshall, Sept. 10, 2014
“Will Scots Heed Ancient Call for Freedom?” by Don North, Sept. 10, 2014
“A Third Decade of Bombing Iraq” by Nat Parry, Sept. 12, 2014
“Ukraine’s ‘Romantic’ Neo-Nazi Storm Troopers” by Robert Parry, Sept. 15, 2014
“The Lost Logic of Perpetual War” by Nat Parry, Sept. 16, 2014
“Cameras to Detect ‘Abnormal’ Behavior” by Sander Venema, Sept. 18, 2014
“Blocking a ‘Realist’ Strategy on the Mideast” by Robert Parry, Sept. 19, 2014
“Obama’s Novel Lawyering to Bomb Syria” by Robert Parry, Sept. 23, 2014
“Argentina v. the Hedge Funds” by Andres Cala, Sept. 24, 2014
“Obama’s Propagandistic UN Address” by Robert Parry, Sept. 25, 2014
“The CIA/MSM Contra-Cocaine Cover-up” by Robert Parry, Sept. 26, 2014
“Neocons’ Noses into the Syrian Tent” by Robert Parry, Sept. 29, 2014
“Beheadings v. Drone Assassinations” by Coleen Rowley, Sept. 30, 2014
“Oh What a Webb We Weave” by Greg Maybury, Sept. 30, 2014
October
“Official Washington’s Syrian ‘Fantasy’” by Robert Parry, Oct. 1, 2014
“The Why of Obama’s Failed Hope” by Greg Maybury, Oct. 3, 2014
“Guantanamo’s Force-Feeding Challenged” by Ray McGovern, Oct. 8, 2014
“The Sordid Contra-Cocaine Saga” by Robert Parry, Oct. 9, 2014
“A Murder Mystery at Guantanamo Bay” by Ray McGovern, Oct. 10, 2014
“Can MSM Handle the Contra-Cocaine Truth?” by Robert Parry, Oct. 11, 2014
“An Imperial Death Grip on Democracy” by Greg Maybury, Oct. 12, 2014
“‘Kill the Messenger’: Rare Truth-telling” by James DiEugenio, Oct. 16, 2014
“WPost’s Slimy Assault on Gary Webb” by Robert Parry, Oct. 18, 2014
“The Battle for Palestine” Parts One, Two and Three by William R. Polk, Oct. 23-24, 2014
“Using the Holocaust to Justify War” by Maidhc Ó Cathail, Oct. 25, 2014
“Treating Putin Like a Lunatic” by Robert Parry, Oct. 25, 2014
“How the Washington Press Turned Bad” by Robert Parry, Oct. 28, 2014
“Big Media Has Betrayed the People” by Greg Maybury, Oct. 31, 2014
“Petraeus Spared Ray McGovern’s Question” by Robert Parry, Oct. 31, 2014
November
“Will the Right’s Fake History Prevail” by Robert Parry, Nov. 1, 2014
“Gary Webb and Media Manipulation” by Beverly Bandler, Nov. 2, 2014
“Saudi Arabia’s Oil Politics on Syria” by Andres Cala, Nov. 3, 2014
“The Right’s Tenth Amendment Myth” by Robert Parry, Nov. 4, 2014
“Obama’s Last Chance” by Robert Parry, Nov. 6, 2014
“The Mystery of Ray McGovern’s Arrest” by Ray McGovern, Nov. 8, 2014
“Standing in an Adversary’s Shoes” by William R. Polk, Nov. 10, 2014
“The Neocon Plan for War and More War” by Robert Parry, Nov. 11, 2014
“When Henry Kissinger Makes Sense” by Robert Parry, Nov. 12, 2014
“Can the World Avert a New Cold War?” by Annie Machon, Nov. 14, 2014
“The Iraq War’s Pricy Ticket” by William R. Polk, Nov. 14, 2014
“Behind the War with Boko Haram” by Don North, Nov. 16, 2014
“The EU Wobbles Amid Conflicting Priorities” by Andres Cala, Nov. 20, 2014
“CIA’s Torturous Maneuvers on Torture” by Ray McGovern, Nov. 21, 2014
“Why JFK Still Matters” by Beverly Bandler, Nov. 22, 2014
“Possible Motives for Ousting Hagel” by Robert Parry, Nov. 24, 2014
“Der Spiegel Tones Down Anti-Putin Hysteria” by Robert Parry, Nov. 28, 2014
December
“A Dangerous Failure with Iran” by Ted Snider, Dec. 1, 2014
“Obama, the People and the Facts” by Robert Parry, Dec. 3, 2014
“Ukraine’s Made-in-USA Finance Minister” by Robert Parry, Dec. 5, 2014
“Propaganda’s Triumph over Journalism” by John Pilger, Dec. 7, 2014
“Stifling Dissent on the Upper East Side” by Todd E. Pierce, Dec. 8, 2014
“The New Republic’s Ugly Reality” by Robert Parry, Dec. 8, 2014
“Rescuing Diplomacy in an Age of Demagogy” by Paul Grenier, Dec. 9, 2014
“What’s the Next Step to Stop Torture?” by Ray McGovern, Dec. 11, 2014
“How ‘Awesome’ Is America?” by Robert Parry, Dec. 12, 2014
“Clashing Face-to-Face on Torture” by Ray McGovern, Dec. 14, 2014
“America’s Earlier Embrace of Torture” by Jonathan Marshall, Dec. 15, 2014
“Torture Impunity and Police Shootings” by Nat Parry, Dec. 16, 2014
“How Torture Puts Americans at Risk” by Todd E. Pierce, Dec. 18, 2014
“The Crazy US ‘Group Think’ on Russia” by Robert Parry, Dec. 18, 2014
“Krugman Joins the Anti-Putin Pack” by Robert Parry, Dec. 19, 2014
“Torture’s Time for Accountability” by Ray McGovern, Dec. 20, 2014
“The Liberal Idiocy on Russia/Ukraine” by Robert Parry, Dec. 22, 2014
“Anything Learned from ‘Christmas Truce’?” by Greg Maybury, Dec. 23, 2014
“Selling ‘Peace Groups’ on US-Led Wars” by Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley, Dec. 25, 2014
“Neocons Link Cuba Opening to Iran Deal” by Andres Cala, Dec. 26, 2014
“The Victory of ‘Perception Management’” by Robert Parry, Dec. 28, 2014
“Murdoch, Scaife and CIA Propaganda” by Robert Parry, Dec. 31, 2014
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