Anyone in journalism who wants to regain that trust would do well to read American Dispatches and internalize the lessons that Robert Parry offers, writes Nat Parry.
The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Category: Books
SCOTT RITTER: Sometimes Humanity Gets it Right
Disarmament in the time of Perestroika spotlights the pivotal contributions of U.S.-Soviet inspectors in helping to complete the 1988 INF treaty, which took effect after a period of bilateral tensions that could be considered more severe than those of today.
Exposing the CIA & Raising the Bar for Investigative Reporting
The new book featuring the reporting of the late Robert Parry, the founder of this site, should be assigned in college classrooms, writes John Kiriakou in a review of American Dispatches.
The CIA’s Role in Watergate
The Corporatization of Just About Everything
To untangle what’s happening in U.S. politics, Tom Valovic recommends taking Charles Reich’s advice and revisiting the notion of “the system.”
Chris Hedges: The Disappearance of Meghan Marohn
There is a national epidemic of missing girls and women. This is the story of a friend who has become one of these grim statistics.
American Dispatches: The Journalism of Robert Parry
A collection of the journalism of the late Robert Parry, a premier investigative journalist who founded this site in 1995, has just been published.
Chris Hedges: Alice Walker & the Price of Conscience
Under heat from the Israel lobby, The Bay Area Book Festival humiliated one of the most gifted and courageous writers in America.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Great Acquiescence — Glory to Ukraine
Americans don’t merely acquiesce to the imperium’s wars, interventions, collective punishments and assorted other deprivations. They actively embrace them.
The Ideological Vacuum in Kenyan Politics
A group of young, Kenyan intellectuals is intent on magnifying the legacies of freedom fighters such as Pio Gama Pinto, the first political leader in their country to be assassinated after independence.