Alfred McCoy rounds up 50 years of racist U.S. policymaking on drug abuse, first by Republicans Nixon and Reagan and then by Democrat Bill Clinton.
The Drugging of American Politics
Tag: Richard Nixon
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 2: Getting the Papers
In part two of this multi-part series, Sen. Mike Gravel gets a mysterious phone call from someone saying he had the Pentagon Papers, which Gravel later agreed to accept just blocks from the White House.
US Attacks BDS for Same Reason Nixon Started Drug War
This weapon will continue to be used against the left, not only to support Israel but to prevent the rise of any political movements in powerful Western nations, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
WATCH: Hedges & Chomsky on the State of the Empire
On his program On Contact, Chris Hedges speaks to Noam Chomsky on terrorism, militarism, media & the state of America’s empire, at home and abroad.
25 YEARS: 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.
A History of Contested Presidential Elections, from Samuel Tilden to Al Gore
If either Trump or Biden refuses to concede, Robert Speel says it wouldn’t be the first time turmoil persisted for days and weeks after an election.
Bob Parry on Brent Scowcroft
With the death on Friday of former National Security Adviser Gen. Brent Scowcroft at 95, we look back at a very telling encounter the late, founding editor of this website had with the general.
Presumptuous Pompeo Pushes Preposterous ‘Peking’ Policy
A rant by Mike Pompeo regarding what the U.S. should do with China led to a fruitful exchange between an old China, and an old Soviet hand, writes Ray McGovern.
BOUNTYGATE: Why Didn’t Haspel Demand an Oval Office Meeting?
The safety of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan does not appear to be the motive in intelligence agency leaks to the media about the alleged Russian “bounties,” says Joe Lauria.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Journalists Are All Julian Assange’—Robert Parry, December 16, 2010
This is the second story in the Best of Consortium News series as we look back at our first 25 years throughout our jubilee year.