From Editor Robert Parry: Our Spring Fund Drive ended in late April, so the thank-you gifts should have arrived by now — either the “Kill the Messenger” movie DVD plus the CD of Gary Webb and me discussing the Contra-cocaine scandal in 1996 (for donations of…
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Just $1,000 to Go in Spring Fund Drive
From Editor Robert Parry: We’ve gotten to within $1,000 of our reduced $25,000 goal for the Spring Fund Drive. So, please, if you can help us get over this final hump, I’d be very appreciative. We should then have enough…
Last Push for Spring Fund Drive
From Editor Robert Parry: I want to thank those readers who have been able to donate to our Spring Fund Drive. But we remain almost $5,000 short of our reduced goal of $25,000, which is the absolute minimum we need…
Still Not Halfway to Spring Fund Goal
From Editor Robert Parry: We want to wrap up our spring fund drive soon, but we’re still not even halfway to our goal of $35,000. So let’s see if we can at least reach the two-thirds mark, raising about $25,000…
Spring Fund Drive Coming Up Short
From Editor Robert Parry: At Consortiumnews, we only have a few special fund drives each year. So, it’s important that we meet or come close to meeting our goals. Sadly, that’s not been the case for our spring fund drive.…
The Evolution of Consortiumnews
From Editor Robert Parry: Frankly, the evolution of Consortiumnews.com has surprised me. Twenty years ago, the idea was to provide a home for independent investigative journalism that was getting squeezed out of the mainstream U.S. news media. We have done…
A Unique Thank-You Gift
From Editor Robert Parry: As a unique thank-you gift for our spring drive, we are offering a DVD of last year’s feature film “Kill the Messenger” telling the tragic story of how the mainstream U.S. news media destroyed journalist Gary…
Some Lingering Technical Problems
From Editor Robert Parry: We continue to have some technical difficulties because of the problem last week when the server was flooded by fake comments. As we work through the fixes, there may be some lost comments. We are also…
Spring Fund Drive Goal: $35,000
From Editor Robert Parry: Over the past year, Consortiumnews.com’s refusal to join the propaganda pack rushing into a dangerous war over Ukraine has made us a pariah in some circles, but we are doing what independent journalists are supposed to do:…
Some Comments about Comments
From Editor Robert Parry: At Consortiumnews, we welcome substantive comments about our articles, but comments should avoid abusive language toward other commenters or our writers, racial or religious slurs (including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia), and allegations that are unsupported by facts.