Exclusive: Official Washington and its compliant mainstream news media operate with a convenient situational ethics when it comes to the principles of international law and non-intervention in sovereign states. The rules apply only when they’re convenient, explains Robert Parry.
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A Shadow US Foreign Policy
Six Decades of H-Bomb Cover-ups
The Best and Worst US Presidents
A Rare Indictment of US Atrocities
Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?
Fear Itself: Democrats Duck FDR’s Lessons
No Tears for the Real Robert Gates
Exclusive: In Official Washington, the gap between image and reality can be wide, but there is a virtual canyon separating the mainstream’s awestruck regard for Robert Gates as a “wise man” and his record as a deceitful opportunist known to his former…
Israel’s Hand in Guatemala’s Genocide
Robert Gates’s Narcissistic ‘Duty’
The Inside-the-Beltway acclaim bestowed on Robert Gates is perhaps the clearest evidence of the failure of Washington’s media/political elite to recognize reality and impose accountability on incompetent or corrupt government officials, a point addressed by ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman.