The disclosure of fiercely anti-Trump text messages between two romantically involved senior FBI officials who played key roles in the early Russia-gate inquiry has turned the supposed Russian-election-meddling “scandal” into its own scandal, by providing evidence...
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America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
by Robert Parry | Nov 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s and the early 1980s is that then – even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan – there were prominent...
Russia-gate Breeds ‘Establishment McCarthyism’
by Robert Parry | Oct 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
In the past, America has witnessed “McCarthyism” from the Right and even complaints from the Right about “McCarthyism of the Left.” But what we are witnessing now amid the Russia-gate frenzy is what might be called “Establishment McCarthyism," traditional...
Washington Post Pushes More Dubious Russia-Bashing
by Robert Parry | Sep 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Some people are calling the anti-Russian hysteria being whipped up across the US mainstream news media a new “golden age of American journalism,” although it looks to me more like a new age of yellow journalism, prepping the people for more military spending, more...
Reagan Documents Shed Light on US ‘Meddling’
by Robert Parry | Sep 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
“Secret” documents, recently declassified by the Reagan presidential library, reveal senior White House officials reengaging a former CIA “proprietary,” The Asia Foundation, in “political action,” an intelligence term of art for influencing the actions of foreign...
NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard
by Robert Parry | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles
The New York Times has finally admitted that one of the favorite Russia-gate canards – that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies concurred on the assessment of Russian hacking of Democratic emails – is false.On Thursday, the Times appended a correction to a June 25...
Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup?
by Robert Parry | May 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday reflected a growing concern inside the White House that the long-rumored scheme by “deep state” operatives to overturn the results of the 2016 election may have been more than just rumors.The fear grew...
Did Al Qaeda Fool the White House Again?
by Robert Parry | Apr 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
In Official Washington, words rarely mean what they say. For instance, if a US government official voices “high confidence” in a supposed “intelligence assessment,” that usually means “we don’t have any real evidence, but we figure that if we say ‘high confidence’...
Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria
by Robert Parry | Apr 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday’s poison-gas deaths in a rebel-held area of northern Syria, the mainstream U.S. news media once more reveals itself to be a threat to responsible journalism and to the future of humanity. Again, we see the troubling pattern...
The Sleazy Origins of Russia-Gate
by Robert Parry | Apr 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
An irony of the escalating hysteria about the Trump camp’s contacts with Russians is that one presidential campaign in 2016 did exploit political dirt that supposedly came from the Kremlin and other Russian sources. Friends of that political campaign paid for this...
The Kagans Are Back; Wars to Follow
by Robert Parry | Mar 16, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Kagan family, America’s neoconservative aristocracy, has reemerged having recovered from the letdown over not gaining its expected influence from the election of Hillary Clinton and from its loss of official power at the start of the Trump presidency.Back...
Trump Caves on Flynn’s Resignation
by Robert Parry | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
The neocon-dominated U.S. foreign policy establishment won an important victory in forcing the resignation of President Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Flynn over a flimsy complaint that he had talked to the Russian ambassador during the transition.The...
Trump’s Need to Trust Americans
by Robert Parry | Dec 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
Barack Obama’s chance for a transformative presidency ended when he bowed to Official Washington’s foreign-policy establishment of neocons and liberal interventionists and bought into the elitist notion that the American people should be guided by propaganda, not...
Trump’s Tulsi Gabbard Factor
by Robert Parry | Nov 23, 2016 | Featured Articles
Two weeks after Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton, the imperious and imperial neoconservatives and their liberal-interventionist understudies may finally be losing their tight grip on US foreign policy. The latest sign was Trump’s invitation for a...
Who Will Weed Out the Warmongers?
by Robert Parry | Nov 1, 2016 | Featured Articles
If Hillary Clinton hangs on to win the presidency, liberal Democrats have vowed to block her appointment of Wall Street-friendly officials to key Cabinet and sub-Cabinet jobs. But there has been little organized resistance to her choosing hawkish foreign policy...
Democrats Are Now the Aggressive War Party
by Robert Parry | Jun 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Democratic Party has moved from being what you might call a reluctant war party to an aggressive war party with its selection of Hillary Clinton as its presumptive presidential nominee. With minimal debate, this historic change brings full circle the arc of the...
A Media Unmoored from Facts
by Robert Parry | Apr 8, 2016 | Featured Articles
Several weeks ago, I received a phone call from legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh who had seen one of my recent stories about Syria and wanted to commiserate over the state of modern journalism. Hersh’s primary question regarding reporters and editors at...
Giving Peace Very Little Chance
by Robert Parry | Feb 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
After nearly 15 years of Mideast war – with those conflicts growing ever grimmer – you might expect that peace would be a major topic of the 2016 presidential race. Instead, there has been a mix of warmongering bluster from most candidates and some confused mutterings...
Democrats in ‘Group Think’ Land
by Robert Parry | Jan 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
A curious reality about Official Washington is that to have “credibility” you must accept the dominant “group thinks” whether they have any truth to them or not, a rule that applies to both the mainstream news media and the political world, even to people who deviate...
How Ukraine’s Finance Chief Got Rich
by Robert Parry | Nov 12, 2015 | Featured Articles
Before becoming Ukraine’s Finance Minister last December, Natalie Jaresko collected $1.77 million in bonuses from a US-taxpayer-financed investment fund where her annual compensation was supposed to be limited to $150,000, according to financial documents filed with...
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