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Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Consortiumnews.com - Jan. 30 - Reagan’s Road to Climate Perdition

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Neocons Dream Up Scary Iran Scenarios

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Paul R. Pillar - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - As American neocons continue to walk the United States toward another war in the Middle East, this time with Iran, they have been laboring to come up with rationales, including alarmist scenarios of what a nuclear-armed Iran might do geopolitically, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains.

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Urging Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern, Elizabeth Murray - Dec. 31 (News Analysis) - President Obama needs to put an abrupt halt to the game of Persian Roulette about to spin out of control in the Persian Gulf. If we were still on active duty at the CIA, this is what we would tell him:

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The Christmas Truce of 1914

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Gary G. Kohls - Dec. 17 (Special Report) - It might seem odd to anyone who understands what Jesus taught that the U.S. presidential candidates who most stress their Christian devotion are often the same ones urging more wars. But this defiling of Jesus’s message of peace is not new, as Gary G. Kohls recalls from an inspiring moment in World War I.

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Prepping Americans for an Iran War

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By William Blum - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - There’s no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of D&D — Death and Destruction. The Bunker Buster bombs are now 30,000 pounds each one, six times as heavy as the previous delightful model.. But the Masters of War still want to be loved; they need for you to believe them when they say they have no choice, that Iran is the latest threat to life as we know it, no time to waste.

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Petraeus’s CIA Fuels Iran Murder Plot

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Oct. 13 (News Analysis) - Before Ignatius’s article, I had seen no one allude to the fact that much about this crime-stopper tale had come from the CIA. In public, the FBI had taken the lead role, presumably because the key informant inside a Mexican drug cartel worked for U.S. law enforcement via the Drug Enforcement Administration.

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Taking a Bush Secret to the Grave

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Parry - Sep. 29 (Special Report) - A three-decade-old mystery has finally been solved - who was George H.W. Bush's unidentified "alibi witness" on Oct. 19, 1980, when other witnesses allege the then-Republican vice presidential candidate took a secret flight to Paris for meetings with Iranians - but the mystery's answer only raises new questions. After 20 years of rejecting requests from various investigators for the identity of the "alibi witness," the U.S. government finally released enough information from Secret Service files - in response to an appeal that I filed with the National Archives - to ascertain the person's identity.

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Michele Bachmann's Aide Hides $10 Million Secret

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Robert Parry - Jul. 10 (Special Report) - For two decades, Rollins has withheld evidence about the identity of a top Filipino politician who admitted delivering an illegal $10 million cash payment to Ronald Reagan’s 1984 campaign from Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

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Robert Parry’s July Fourth Appeal

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Jul. 04 (Opinion) - In a modern age of mass communication, it has turned out that sophisticated propaganda and false narratives can be a more lethal threat to meaningful self-rule in America than all the armies of the world combined. If enough Americans can be deluded by clever talking points and endless spin – while many others are rendered confused and immobile – then the “consent of the governed” is made meaningless.

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The Lie Behind the Afghan War

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - A recurring refrain about the Afghan War is that the United States must stay for the long haul now to avoid repeating the “mistake” made in 1989 when Soviet forces left and Americans supposedly disappeared, too. But this conventional wisdom, spread by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others, is a lie

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Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 Strategy Explained

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Gareth Porter - Jun. 10 (Opinion) - Before his murder last month, Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad detailed how al-Qaeda leaders used the 9/11 attacks to induce “cowboy” President George W. Bush to blunder foolishly into the invasions of two Muslim countries, thus advancing an al-Qaeda strategy to discredit the region’s U.S.-connected leaders

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Cheering Netanyahu's Intransigence

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Robert Parry - May. 26 (Opinion) - Congress, with repeated standing ovations, showed its love for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the valentine may have unintended consequences by stirring dangerous passions of Likud's rejectionist wing, which is now weighing the risks of transforming Israel into an overtly apartheid state. These hardliners might well interpret the congressional obsequiousness as signaling that Israel still has a free hand to do whatever it wants, even if that means defying President Barack Obama's mild pressure for movement toward peace with the Palestinians.

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US Policy Still Misreads the Middle East

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Lawrence Davidson - May. 09 (News Analysis) - The Egyptians now boldly think about and discuss not only what is wrong but also why it is so. A significant aspect of why their problems persisted so long was the decades of U.S. support for the country’s dictator. They know that and there is popular sentiment for avoiding that sort of "aid" in the future. If they can achieve this the Egyptians have a genuine shot at a better future. On the other hand, America’s leaders are fixated on what they think confronts them and have relegated the why of it all to irrelevancy. In other words, when it comes to foreign policy, U.S. leaders, to say nothing of soldiers and spies, are dismally short-sighted. Hence the policy failures.

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Post-Bin Laden Peace Hopes Dim

Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Gareth Porter - May. 09 (News Analysis) - The idea that U.S. policy is now on the road to an "endgame" in Afghanistan glosses over a central problem: the publicly expressed U.S. determination to keep a U.S. combat presence in Afghanistan indefinitely is not an acceptable condition to the Taliban as a basis for negotiations.

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The Anti-War Message of Mother's Day

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Gary G. Kohls - May. 08 (Special Report) - at its origin 141 years ago, Mother’s Day had a different purpose, an observance of the wastefulness of war and a plea for mothers to stop their husbands and sons from being dispatched for more killing and carnage,

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The Curious Bush/Bin Laden Symbiosis

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - May. 07 (Opinion) - while criticism has fallen on Pakistani authorities for being either complicit or incompetent, almost no attention has focused on the curious symbiotic relationship that has existed since 9/11 between Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush – and even longer between the bin Laden family and the Bush family.

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Finishing a Job: Obama Gets Osama

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - May. 02 (Opinion) - President Barack Obama touched off American celebrations with his Sunday night announcement that U.S. forces finally had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but that long frustrating hunt might not have been necessary if George W. Bush had rejected neoconservative advice to pivot prematurely from Afghanistan to Iraq in late 2001.

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'Theater of the Absurd' Comes to Life

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Danny Schechter - Mar. 26 (Opinion) - It's one thing to oppose a policy that seems to have a rational logic behind it, however disguised, deceptive, and misguided. It’s another to find policies built around a politician’s desire to deflect criticism, look good or act for the sake of acting. That’s the essence of absurd. We would like to think that our “leaders” know what they are doing and behave within some calculus of civilized norms. More often they act in a rushed manner on bad intelligence, or no intelligence at all, “defending” what they do with folksy aphorisms and unverified or unverifiable claims.

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Why American Conservative Jokes about Japan's Tragedy

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Phil Rockstroh - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - On a cultural and political level, due to the constant saturation and an attendant internalization of "free market" platitudes, sans a counter narrative of compassion and social awareness, many in the U.S. experience acute cognitive dissonance when confronted by the demonstrable fact that the nation's much heralded tales of equal opportunity and class mobility are little more than the self-serving propaganda of a privileged few. National character traits, such as these, display an always present, ever-vigilant, defiant ignorance -- a pride-ridden predilection best summed up, albeit inadvertently, by that stumble-mouth poet of the American spirit, George H. W. Bush.

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Wackos of the World Unite!

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - Mar. 05 - Craziness is roaming the world from Libya to Wisconsin, with a lengthy stopover in Washington DC, observes Michael Winship. March 5, 2011

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America's Radical 'Conservatism'

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Lawrence Davidson - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - Since Ronald Reagan stepped onto the national political stage in the 1970s, American “conservatism” has operated in an increasingly radical, anti-empirical and paranoid style, putting the social and economic stability of the United States at greater and greater risk.

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Reagan's Epoch Shatters in Egypt

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Feb. 06 (Opinion) - The political crisis sweeping the Middle East is another part of Ronald Reagan’s dark legacy that is shattering into chaos even as the United States prepares to lavishly celebrate his 100th birthday.

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US-Israeli Strategy Crashes in Egypt

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Gareth Porter - Feb. 02 (Opinion) - The uprising in Egypt marks an end to a long U.S.-Israeli strategy of imposing "order" on the Middle East

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Ukraine's Assault on a Free Press

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By David Marks - Jan. 24 (News Report) - In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi -- known for its independent investigative style -- is under intense legal pressure, with its owner not part of Ukraine's power circles.

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US Courts Help Corporations Win

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Michael Winship - Jan. 20 (Opinion) - Now, on Jan. 13, that same court ruled, as reported in The New York Times, that Joe "could not invoke a journalist's privilege in refusing to turn over that footage because his work on the film did not constitute an act of independent reporting," and that the argument "that he was protected as a journalist from being compelled to share his reporting materials was not persuasive."

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