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.
CN at 30: The Meaning of Consortium News
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WATCH: Our 30th Birthday Celebration
Consortium News turned 30 years old Saturday. Robert Parry founded the first independent, online news publication in the U.S. on Nov. 15, 1995. We’re celebrating 3 decades of bringing you news others won’t.
VIPS on Dick Cheney: Intelligence Unglued
The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) sent this memo to George W. Bush about Dick Cheney’s deceptive role in the Iraq invasion, published by Consortium News in 2003.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: The Mystery of the Nagasaki Bomb
On Aug. 9, 1945, as Japan’s high command met on surrender plans, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki killing 74,000 people instantly, a decision that’s never been adequately explained, writes John LaForge.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: The Very Un-Christian Nagasaki Bomb
An all-Christian American crew used the steeple of Japan’s most prominent Christian church as the target for an act of unspeakable barbarism, writes Gary G. Kohls.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: When Time Stopped in Hiroshima — and When it Was Stolen
The first atomic bomb burst at 8:15 a.m. over the city of Hiroshima leaving its impression on a watch that disappeared 44 years later, reports Joe Lauria.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: How US Spies Secured the Hiroshima Uranium
A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.
Clapper’s Claptrap
The former U.S. director of national intelligence told CNN new Russiagate revelations were “nonsense” and “absurd” but he wasn’t challenged on any details the way Ray McGovern once did back in 2018.
SCOTT RITTER: If It Wants, Iran Is Days From the Bomb
Iran is capable of building a nuclear weapon in days if the political decision is made, the author wrote in CN last October. He maintains that view after the U.S. and Israeli strikes on three nuclear facilities last month.
Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu
We heard these canards leading up to the 2003 war in Iraq. Twenty-two years later they have been resurrected. Anyone who advocates for negotiations, for diplomacy and peace, is a stooge for terrorists.