Tag: Robert Parry

Colin Powell: An Appraisal

Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, wrote this profile in 2004 of Colin Powell, who died at 84 of Covid-19 on Monday.

Hollywood’s Dangerous Afghan Illusion

From the Archives: A newly discovered document undercuts a key storyline of the anti-Soviet Afghan war of the 1980s that it was Charlie Wilson’s War, wrote Robert Parry on April 7, 2013.

Lynching and the Jeff Davis Highway

The Fairfax County, Virginia Board of Supervisors this week set up a task force to suggest renaming two major roads in the county named after Confederate generals, a topic discussed six years ago by CN‘s founding editor Robert Parry.