We remember the great investigative reporter Robert Parry, who founded this website in 1995. He left us way too soon on Jan. 27, 2018.
Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 8 Years Ago Today
Category: Iraq
Jeffrey Sachs: The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
Understanding hybrid war tactics helps to explain why Trump’s rhetoric oscillates between threats of war and phony offers of peace.
Chris Hedges: The Machinery of Terror
The iron doors have not yet shut but ICE, the Americanized Gestapo, is being birthed. Resistance must be collective.
Chris Hedges: Grand Illusion
In the end, with weary citizens yearning for extinction, empires light their own funeral pyre.
Jonathan Cook: 4 Observations on Maduro Kidnap
A unipolar world leaves all of us prey to Trump’s destabilizing gangsterism and a rapacious, destructive, U.S. corporate capitalism.
Jeffrey Sachs Briefs UN on US Aggression in Venezuela
The author advises the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities by immediately affirming a series of actions in response to the U.S. attacks on Venezuela.
Trump’s Teatro Yanqui del Absurdo
UPDATED: Donald Trump’s Mar-al-Lago press conference announcing that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela was pure Yankee theater of the absurd, writes Joe Lauria.
John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful
UPDATED: John Pilger died two years ago today on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his job as a reporter, writes Joe Lauria.
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CN at 30: The Meaning of Consortium News
Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavored to continue, writes Joe Lauria.