The authors raise the brutal U.S. military misadventures committed during the first Cold War in the name of defending “the free world,” a term Biden ominously revived in his State of the Union address.
Warnings for Washington About Cold War 2.0
Category: Iran-Contra
Three Years Ago Today…
On this day in 2018 Consortium News lost its founder and editor Robert Parry, who succumbed to cancer at 68. We look back on his life in this video of his memorial service held on April 14, 2018.
Consortium News in the Post-Bob Parry Era
CN has new editors, new writers, a new layout and a new webcast—but the same principles of its founding editor.
25 YEARS: The Meaning of Consortium News
Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavored to continue, writes Joe Lauria.
Consortium News Sues Canadian TV Network for Defamation Over Report CN Was Part of ‘Attack’ ‘Directed’ by Russia
In January Consortium News sent a libel notice to Global News demanding a retraction and apology. The TV network refused. On Tuesday CN filed suit in Virginia.
Bob Parry on Brent Scowcroft
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.
Epstein Case: Documentaries Won’t Touch Tales of Intel Ties
Two new documentaries on the Jeffery Epstein affair delve into lurid details & give voice to his victims, but both scratch the surface of the political & intelligence dimensions of the scandal, writes Elizabeth Vos.
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.
FULL VIDEO: CN LIVE!: Webb on Epstein and the Guardian, the NYT and WikiLeaks: Episode 6
Episode 6 of CN Live! Whitney Webb’s powerful interview on Epstein and Mark Davis on The Guardian, the NYT, WikiLeaks and the publication of the Afghan War Logs.
Triumph of Conventional Wisdom: AP Expunges Iran/Contra Pardons from Barr’s Record
Sam Husseini writes that the news agency ignored the nominee’s link to a major U.S. scandal broken by its own investigative reporter at the time, the late Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News.