Consortiumnews.com is one of the single most important sites on the web. Robert Parry is one of the reporters that broke the Iran/Contra scandal.
Without him we would not know or understand the historical connections between the neocon elements in our government, back-channels in Iran and U.S.-funded/trained right-wing armies in Central America.
He says that independent progressive journalism is in big trouble and the left will not thrive without it.
If you work for a liberal foundation, and you care about this country, you must find a way to fund independent progressive journalism.
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He has clarified the ongoing neocon narrative: how Elliott Abrams, Michael Ledeen, Scooter Libby and others have driven U.S. foreign policy towards a murderous permanent war in the middle east in the name of an oligarch-run fake managed democracy.
These are evil men who believe that truth and lies, death and life are interchangeable. They aid and abet death squads and secret assassinations in the name of a brighter tomorrow.
Independent progressive journalism needs your help.
Robert Parry has tracked their dealings and those of others. When Robert Parry says the current crisis is due to the fact that independent journalists are not properly supported, he is right:
At Consortiumnews.com over the past year, we have approached more than 100 potential funders about supporting an investigative journalism project modeled after the Vietnam-era Dispatch News, where Sy Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre story. Our idea was to hire a team of experienced investigative journalists who would dig into important stories that are receiving little or no attention from the mainstream news media.
While nearly everyone we have approached agrees on the need for this kind of journalism and most praised the plan, no one has yet stepped forward with financial support. Indeed, the expenses of contacting these potential funders - though relatively modest - have put the survival of our decade-old Web site at risk.
Which leads to another myth among some on the Left: that the media problem will somehow solve itself, that the pendulum will swing back when the national crisis gets worse and the conservatives finally go too far.
But there is really no reason to think that some imaginary mechanism will reverse the trends. Indeed, the opposite seems more likely. The gravitational pull of the Right's expanding media galaxy keeps dragging the mainstream press in that direction. Look what's happening at major news outlets from CBS to PBS, all are drifting to the right.
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