Articles by Robert Parry – Consortium News

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Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 18 Dec 2017

As much as the U.S. mainstream media insists that the Russia-gate scandal is growing, what is undeniably growing is the list of major corrections that news outlets have been forced to issue.

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The Lost Journalistic Standards of Russia-gate
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 27 Nov 2017

20 Nov 2017 – A danger in both journalism and intelligence is to allow an unproven or seriously disputed fact to become part of the accepted narrative where it gets widely repeated and thus misleads policymakers and citizens alike, such as happened during the run-up to war with Iraq and is now recurring amid the frenzy over Russia-gate.

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Oliver Stone Honored with Press Freedom Award
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 8 May 2017

4 May 2017 – Though most people know Oliver Stone as a famous screenwriter and movie director, he has also lent his talents and resources to a number of documentary films that embrace the core journalistic idea that there are usually two sides – if not more – to a story.

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Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 10 Apr 2017

The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities.

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NYT Advocates Internet Censorship
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 28 Nov 2016

In its lead editorial on Sunday [20 Nov 2016], The New York Times decried what it deemed “The Digital Virus Called Fake News” and called for Internet censorship, taking particular aim at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for letting “liars and con artists hijack his platform.” But the Times ignores its own record of publishing “fake news.”

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Good Deaths in Mosul, Bad Deaths in Aleppo
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 24 Oct 2016

Note how differently The New York Times prepares the American public for civilian casualties from the new U.S.-backed Iraqi government assault on the city of Mosul to free it from the Islamic State, compared to the unrelenting condemnation of the Russian-backed Syrian government assault on neighborhoods of east Aleppo held by Al Qaeda.

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The NYT’s Neocon ‘Downward Spiral’
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 10 Oct 2016

Every day, The New York Times – America’s “paper of record” – sinks deeper into the swamp of propaganda, now reliably touting predictable neocon notions about the Middle East and Russia.

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The Dumbed-Down New York Times
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 29 Aug 2016

27 Aug 2016 – The Times applies a conscious double standard when reporting on the actions of the United States or one of its allies (note how Turkey’s recent invasion of Syria was just an ‘intervention’) as compared to how the Times deals with actions by U.S. adversaries, such as Russia.

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‘Fraud’ Alleged in NYT’s MH-17 Report
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 25 Jul 2016

An amateur report alleging Russian doctoring of satellite photos on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 case – a finding embraced by The New York Times – is denounced by a forensic expert as an “outright fraud.”

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Neocons and Neolibs: How Dead Ideas Kill
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 16 May 2016

Hillary Clinton wants the American voters to be very afraid of Donald Trump, but there is reason to fear as well what a neoconservative/neoliberal Clinton presidency would mean for the world.

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‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 11 Apr 2016

Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of “corruption” stories aimed at Russia’s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders.

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The Power of False Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 5 Oct 2015

28 Sep 2015 – In this age of pervasive media, the primary method of social control is through the creation of narratives delivered to the public through newspapers, TV, radio, computers, cell phones and any other gadget that can convey information. This reality has given rise to an obsession among the power elite to control as much of this messaging as possible.

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How Neocons Destabilized Europe
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 14 Sep 2015

7 Sep 2015 – The neocon prescription of endless “regime change” is spreading chaos across the Middle East and now into Europe, yet the neocons still control the mainstream U.S. narrative and thus have diagnosed the problem as not enough “regime change.

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Ukraine: The Mess That Nuland Made
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 27 Jul 2015

Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change in early 2014 without weighing the likely chaos and consequences. Now, as neo-Nazis turn their guns on the government, it’s hard to see how anyone can clean up the mess that Nuland made.

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NYT’s Orwellian View of Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 29 Jun 2015

In the up-is-down Orwellian world that is now The New York Times’ editorial page, there was no coup in Ukraine in 2014, no U.S.-driven “regime change,” no provocation on Russia’s border, just Moscow’s aggression — a sign of how propaganda has taken over mainstream U.S. media.

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U.S. House Admits Nazi Role in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 15 Jun 2015

The U.S. House of Representatives has admitted an ugly truth that the U.S. mainstream media has tried to hide from the American people – that the post-coup regime in Ukraine has relied heavily on Nazi storm troopers to carry out its bloody war against ethnic Russians.

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The Day after Damascus Falls
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 4 May 2015

The Saudi-Israeli alliance has gone on the offensive, ramping up a “regime change” war in Syria and, in effect, promoting a military victory for Al-Qaeda or its spinoff, the Islamic State. But the consequences of that victory could toll the final bell for the American Republic.

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The Putin-Did-It Conspiracy Theory
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 23 Feb 2015

The New York Times – much as it did when it was falsely reporting breathlessly about ‘aluminum tubes’ for Iraq’s non-existent nuclear weapons program – continues to promote U.S. government propaganda about Ukraine as fact and dismisses any rational assessment of the situation as crazy.

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Wretched US Journalism on Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 16 Feb 2015

The U.S. news media has failed the American people often in recent years by not challenging U.S. government falsehoods, as with Iraq’s WMD. But the most dangerous violation of journalistic principles has occurred in the Ukraine crisis, which has the potential of a nuclear war.

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Al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia and Israel
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 9 Feb 2015

4 Feb 2015 – Saudi Arabia is under a new cloud after a jailed al-Qaeda operative implicated senior Saudi officials as collaborators with the terror group – and the shadow could even darken the political future of Israeli Prime Netanyahu because of his odd-couple alliance with Riyadh.

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Ukraine’s Made-in-USA Finance Minister
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 8 Dec 2014

A top problem of Ukraine has been corruption and cronyism, so it may raise eyebrows that new Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, an ex-U.S. diplomat and newly minted Ukrainian citizen, was involved in insider dealings while managing a $150 million U.S. AID-backed investment fund.

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Journalism and Reality
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 10 Nov 2014

So, when I discovered the Contras engaging in a variety of criminal activity, from extrajudicial killings, rapes, torture and drug trafficking, my reporting was unwelcome both inside and outside the AP (and later I encountered the same hostility at Newsweek). The usual response was to challenge my journalism and to pretend that the ugly reality wasn’t the reality.

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Germans Clear Russia in MH-17 Case
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 27 Oct 2014

For months, Western governments and media have accused Russia of supplying the anti-aircraft missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 killing 298 people. But now German intelligence has reportedly determined the missile came from a Ukrainian military base.

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Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Demand Respect
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 20 Oct 2014

15 Oct 2014 – Thousands of Ukraine’s neo-Nazis surrounded the parliament in Kiev demanding that the government honor Ukrainian paramilitary forces who fought for Adolf Hitler in World War II, another embarrassing reminder of the extremism unleashed by last February’s U.S.-backed coup.

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The Sordid Contra-Cocaine Saga
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 13 Oct 2014

If you ever wondered how the mainstream U.S. media changed from the hard-nosed Watergate press of the 1970s into the brown-nose MSM that swallowed the Iraq War lies, a key middle point was the Contra-cocaine scandal of the 1980s/1990s, the subject of a new movie.

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The CIA/Main-Stream-Media Contra-Cocaine Cover-up
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 6 Oct 2014

With Hollywood set to release a movie about the Contra-cocaine scandal and the destruction of journalist Gary Webb, an internal CIA report has surfaced showing how the spy agency manipulated the mainstream media’s coverage to disparage Webb and contain the scandal.

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Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 Whodunnit Still a Mystery
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 15 Sep 2014

More than seven weeks after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people, a preliminary report failed to address the mystery of who shot the plane down. The Dutch investigators didn’t even try to sort through conflicting allegations and evidence.

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The Whys behind the Ukraine Crisis
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 8 Sep 2014

Given the very high stakes of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, some analysts wonder what’s the real motive for taking this extraordinary risk over Ukraine. Is it about natural gas, protection of the U.S. dollar’s dominance, or an outgrowth of neocon extremism?

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NYT’s One-Sided Ukraine Narrative
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 2 Jun 2014

The U.S. press coverage of the Ukraine crisis has been stunningly biased and one-sided, placing virtually all the blame on Russian President Putin. One of the worst offenders in this journalistic travesty has been the New York Times.

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Twisting Putin’s Words on Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 5 May 2014

Anti-Russian bias pervades the mainstream U.S. media in the Ukraine crisis, reflected in word choices – “pro-democracy” for U.S.-favored protesters in Kiev, “terrorists” for disfavored eastern Ukrainians – but also in how the narrative is shaped by false summaries.

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Ukraine’s Inconvenient Neo-Nazis
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 31 Mar 2014

When Ukrainian neo-Nazis – infuriated over the killing of an ultranationalist leader – surrounded the Parliament in Kiev, the incident presented a problem for the U.S. news media which has been trying to airbrush the neo-Nazis out of the Ukraine narrative.

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Mainstream US Media Is Lost in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 17 Mar 2014

The U.S. mainstream news media is reaching a new professional low point as it covers the Ukraine crisis by brazenly touting Official Washington’s propaganda themes, blatantly ignoring contrary facts and leading the American public into another geopolitical blind alley.

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America’s Staggering Hypocrisy In Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 10 Mar 2014

The United States has invaded or otherwise intervened in so many countries that it would be challenging to compile a complete list. Just last decade, there were full-scale U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, plus American bombing operations from Pakistan to Yemen to Libya. So, what is to make of John Kerry’s pronouncement that Russia’s military intervention in the Crimea section of Ukraine – at the behest of the country’s deposed president – is a violation of international law that the United States would never countenance?

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The ‘We-Hate-Putin’ Group Think
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 10 Mar 2014

7 Mar 2014 – The only foreign policy show on the U.S. media dial this past week has been the bashing of Russian President Putin over the Ukraine crisis – with a slap or two at President Obama for having worked with Putin on Syria and Iran. Lost in this “group think” is the why behind this demonization.

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Western Media Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 3 Mar 2014

In the upside-down world that has become the U.S. news media, the democratically elected president was a dictator and the coup makers who overthrew him were “pro-democracy” activists. Events in Ukraine and Venezuela suggest that the idea of respecting the results of elections and working within legal, albeit flawed, political systems is no longer in vogue, unless the “U.S. side” happens to win, of course.

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Big Media Again Pumps for Mideast Wars
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 10 Feb 2014

Official Washington’s neocons still influence U.S. foreign policy despite their Iraq War disaster. Forever pushing what they view as Israel’s strategic needs, the neocons now are stoking fires of war against Iran and Syria by piling on old and new arguments.

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Human Rights Watch’s Syria Dilemma
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 27 Jan 2014

Human Rights Watch, which has pushed for a U.S. military intervention in Syria, continues to blame the Assad government for the Aug. 21[2013] Sarin attack even though the group’s high-profile map supposedly proving the case has been debunked.

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New York Times Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 6 Jan 2014

For months, the “slam-dunk” evidence “proving” Syrian government guilt in the Aug. 21 [2013] Sarin attack near Damascus was a “vector analysis” pushed by the New York Times showing where the rockets supposedly were launched. But the Times now grudgingly admits its analysis was flawed.

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New Evidence of Contra-Cocaine Scandal
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 16 Dec 2013

Special Report: Since journalist Gary Webb died in 2004, the story that destroyed his life has slowly come into clearer focus, revealing how President Reagan’s beloved Contras really were enmeshed in cocaine trafficking. On this ninth anniversary of Webb’s suicide, new corroboration has emerged.

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Fresh Doubts about Syria’s Sarin Guilt
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 16 Dec 2013

Exclusive: A new analysis, buried in a UN report, reveals that one of the two missiles at the center of the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, which nearly led to a U.S. military attack, showed no evidence of Sarin, further undermining Official Washington’s certainty that the Syrian government was to blame.

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A Showdown for War or Peace
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 11 Nov 2013

In pressing for negotiated settlements to the Iranian nuclear dispute and the Syrian civil war, President Barack Obama is challenging the imposing lobbying, propaganda and financial clout of the new Saudi-Israeli alliance, with the future direction of U.S. foreign policy – and geopolitical stability – at stake.

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How US Pressure Bends UN Agencies
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 21 Oct 2013

Exclusive: Lost in the celebration over the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN agency eliminating the Syrian government’s chemical weapons is the question of who was really behind the Aug. 21 poison-gas attack near Damascus. Relevant to that mystery is the recent U.S. pressure to control key UN agencies including the prize recipient, reports Robert Parry.

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Tales of Reagan’s Guatemala Genocide
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 22 Apr 2013

Guatemala is finally putting ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt on trial for genocide in the extermination of hundreds of Mayan villages in the 1980s, but Ronald Reagan remains an American icon despite new evidence of his complicity in this historic crime.

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The Washington Post’s Unbridled Arrogance
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 1 Apr 2013

Perhaps more than any news organization, the Washington Post steered the United States into the illegal invasion of Iraq. But a Post editorial, which belatedly takes note of the war’s tenth anniversary, admits to no mistakes and acknowledges no lessons learned.

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On Korea, Here We Go Again!
Robert Parry – Consortium News, 29 Nov 2010

If American journalism should have learned one thing over the years, it is to be cautious and skeptical during the first days of a foreign confrontation like the one now playing out on the Korean Peninsula. Often the initial accounts from the “U.S. side” don’t turn out to be entirely accurate.

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