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Nuclear War and Clashing Ukraine Narratives

Robert Parry — Tue, 03 May 2022 21:50:00 +0000

America and Russia have two nearly opposite narratives on Ukraine, which is more an indictment of the U.S. news media which feigns objectivity but disseminates what amounts to propaganda. These divergent narratives are driving the world toward a possible nuclear crisis, writes Robert Parry.

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Hollywood’s Dangerous Afghan Illusion

Robert Parry — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 23:32:48 +0000

From the Archives: A newly discovered document undercuts a key storyline of the anti-Soviet Afghan war of the 1980s that it was Charlie Wilson’s War, wrote Robert Parry on April 7, 2013. Official Washington’s conventional wisdom about Afghanistan derives to a dangerous degree from a Hollywood movie, Charlie Wilson’s War, which depicted the anti-Soviet war of the 1980s as a fight pitting […]

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Russiagate, Corbyn and the Crimes of the Corporate Media

Alison Banville — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 19:34:44 +0000

Anti-Russia hysteria reached parodical proportions in the 'mainstream' media in the wake of the Sergei Skripol 'novichok' incident in recent days but what this burlesque spectacle actually reveals is the toxic interdependence between the corporate state and the corporate media - the operative word there being 'corporate' - exposing how they always work together to sweep us all along on a tide of fast-rising nationalistic fervour into the next geopolitically convenient conflict.

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A New Hole in Syria-Sarin Certainty

Robert Parry — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:25:47 +0000

Special Report: A new contradiction has emerged in the West’s groupthink blaming Syria for an April 4 chemical attack, with one group of U.N. investigators raising doubt about the flight of a Syrian warplane, reports Robert Parry.

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Spoiling for a Wider War in Syria

Robert Parry — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 12:17:07 +0000

The U.S. mainstream media’s near universal demonization of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin – along with similar hatred directed toward Iran and Hezbollah – has put the world on a path toward World War III.

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A Response To George Monbiot’s ‘Disavowal’

Media Lens — Thu, 04 May 2017 20:00:01 +0000

Our point is that if journalists like Monbiot are serious about establishing the truth, they will test the French government and other claims against the arguments and evidence offered by dissidents. They will consider the different claims, and come to some kind of informed conclusion. What is not acceptable is that journalists should simply accept as Truth arguments made by Western governments openly seeking regime change in Syria and that have a spectacular track record of lying about claims supposedly justifying war.

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Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria

Robert Parry — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 15:22:53 +0000

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 of verdict first, investigation later, even when that behavior can lead to a dangerous war escalation […]

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Trump’s Slim Chance for Greatness

Robert Parry — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:53:35 +0000

Special Report: Donald Trump’s unlikely victory created the opportunity to finally break with the orthodoxy of Washington’s neocon/liberal-hawk foreign policy, but can Trump find enough fresh thinkers to do the job, asks Robert Parry.

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The Modern History of ‘Rigged’ US Elections

Robert Parry — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 20:00:09 +0000

Donald Trump claims the U.S. presidential election is “rigged,” drawing condemnation from the political/media establishment which accuses him of undermining faith in American democracy. But neither side understands the real problem, says Robert Parry.

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Good Deaths in Mosul, Bad Deaths in Aleppo

Robert Parry — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:05:01 +0000

As the U.S.-backed offensive in Mosul, Iraq, begins, the mainstream U.S. media readies the American people to blame the terrorists for civilian casualties but the opposite rules apply to Syria’s Aleppo, reports Robert Parry.

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