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.
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Impartial Journalism Must Be Saved
Journalism by definition must be impartial and non-partisan, but it is rapidly disappearing in a landscape dominated by media feverishly wedded to either of two political camps.
Consortium News Has Been on the Web Longer Than Salon by 5 Days & NYT, LAT, WSJ and WP By Months, Making it Tied for 10th Longest Active Website Thanks to Our Readers’ Generosity
Thanks to 25 years of generosity from our readers, Consortium News is one of the longest, continuously running websites in history, and arguably the world’s first online news site on the internet.
Consortium News Blazed the Trail of Russiagate Reporting; Help Us to Continue Telling the Story
With his first article on what would become known as Russiagate—written on Aug. 9, 2016, three months before the election—Bob Parry positioned CN as the leading skeptic of the alleged scandal.
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Hillary Clinton’s Turn to McCarthyism’ —Robert Parry, Aug. 9, 2016
This is the fifth story in the Best of Consortium News series as we look back at our first 25 years throughout our jubilee year.
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.
Consortium News’ 25th Anniversary
Consortium News this year is celebrating its 25th Anniversary as the first independent news site on the internet.
The FBI Investigated Robert Parry
The bureau’s file on Robert Parry, the founding editor of Consortium News, was released last month, Joe Lauria reports.
Julian Assange Wins 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award
UPDATED: Imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has been awarded Consortium News’ 2020 Gary Webb Freedom of the Press Award for courage in the face of an unprecedented attack on press freedom.
Washington Protest at Brazilian Embassy over Greenwald
WATCH: Activists and journalists gathered in front of the Brazilian Embassy in DC on Thursday to sound the alarm about the threat to press freedom emanating from the attempt to charge Glenn Greenwald for practicing journalism.