From Editor Robert Parry: We’re still tallying up last-minute donations to our summer fund drive. It appears we fell a bit short of our $25,000 goal, but we came a lot closer than it looked like we would a few…
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Almost to Consortiumnews’ Goal
From Editor Robert Parry: Thanks to the generosity of our readers we are getting close to our modest goal of $25,000 for our summer fund drive. Yes, it has taken a while but we are now only about $5,000 short.
How Fake 2nd Amendment History Kills
Exclusive: Another mass shooting has stunned America, although the sentiment is now more numbness and hopelessness than outrage and resolve. The gun carnage will probably never end unless the Right’s bogus history of the Second Amendment is exploded and the…
Summer Ends, So Does Fund Drive
From Editor Robert Parry: As the last days of summer officially wind down this week, we will be ending our fund drive. If you haven’t yet, please consider a donation. We are now less than $10,000 from our modest goal…
Israel Sides with Syrian Jihadists
Exclusive: Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, has confirmed suspicions that Israel has taken the side of Syrian rebels in their bloody civil war and wants President Assad to fall even if that turns Syria over to al-Qaeda-connected jihadists, a…
Murky Clues from UN’s Syria Report
Exclusive: The focus of the Syrian crisis has shifted to diplomatic moves for eliminating the government’s chemical weapons stockpile, but the whodunit over the Aug. 21 gas attack outside Damascus remains to be solved after a UN report offered a…
How Small Media Bested Big Media
From Editor Robert Parry: Over the last few weeks during the Syrian crisis, we have seen something remarkable how underfunded independent media outlets like Consortiumnews.com can successfully challenge Big Media when it slides into a dangerous “group think.”
Do Syrian Rebels Have Sarin?
Exclusive: A U.S.-Russian agreement calls for the Syrian government to disclose and dispose of its chemical weapons, but that doesn’t resolve the mystery of who was behind the Aug. 21 attack outside Damascus or the question of whether Syrian rebels…
Rewarding ‘Group Think’ on Syria
Exclusive: “Group think” is alive and well in Official Washington, with virtually all the important pundits marching in lock-step with the Obama administration’s accusations against the Syrian government and everyone fuming over an Op-Ed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, observes…
Why Syrian Rebels May Block CW Plan
Exclusive: Ironically, the biggest threat to plans for destroying the Syrian government’s chemical weapons may come from Syrian rebels if they balk at a ceasefire and target UN inspectors removing poison gas canisters, a possibility that the rebels may hope would…