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Consortium News
April 28, 2018
... the former New York Times executive editor and a long-time neighbor of Bob and Diane's; Brian Barger, Bob's partner at the AP on many Iran-Contra exclusives; Joe Lauria, the Consortium News editor-in-chief who also read a tribute to Bob from legendary journalist John Pilger, who was unable to attend;Ãâà...
The Riverdale Press
April 27, 2018
The recently deceased former Associated Press and Newsweek reporter Robert Parry was exiled from the mainstream media for being too truthful, so he formed his own publication, Consortium News. From him and other independent sources, I learned details of the U.S.-funded February 2014 UkraineÃâà...
Consortium News
April 23, 2018
Reporter and author Max Blumenthal has tracked the role of the White Helmets in the Syrian conflict. He reported that the White ... But as Robert Parry, the late founder and editor of this site, pointed out in numerous reports, Syrian government guilt was far from a sure thing. Rather than wait for the arrival of aÃâà...
Consortium News
April 5, 2018
A memorial service in celebration of the life and work of Robert Parry will be held on April 14, 2018 at 2:30pm in the Galaxy Ballroom of the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, VA located at 900 S. Orme St. 22204. The service will feature music and guest speakers, as well as a short videoÃâà...
Consortium News
April 5, 2018
He is the author of two books, A Political Odyssey, with former U.S. Senator and American presidential candidate Mike Gravel, which is a history of U.S. foreign ... Although we can all agree that the late Robert Parry is irreplaceable, Joe Lauria has the journalistic background, editorial judgment and politicalÃâà...
Consortium News
March 30, 2018
... and counter-moves over Ukraine, an issue that journalist Robert Parry has followed over the past year and a half. Parry, a longtime Washington-based investigative reporter and editor of Consortiumnews.com, was interviewed about the crisis by Dennis J. Bernstein for Pacifica Radio's Flashpoint program.
Consortium News
March 5, 2018
“The U.S. media's approach to Russia is now virtually 100 percent propaganda,” the independent journalist Robert Parry wrote at the end of 2017, in the last article published before his ... He is the author of a dozen books including “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death.
Consortium News
March 3, 2018
With the fourth anniversary of the coup just passed, the sudden, shock passing of veteran investigative journalist Robert Parry and Consortium News founder/editor also affords even greater .... It was a 60 Minutes Australia report on the tragedy that really got his gander up, and in this writer's view, rightly so.
Center for Research on Globalization
February 12, 2018
The choice of inconvenient truths over conventional mainstream narratives can marginalize even the most professional and brilliant journalists as Robert Parry had come to discover first hand. On this week's Global Research News Hour, we review some of the highlights of this intrepid journalist's careerÃâà...
Consortium News
February 10, 2018
For the past few weeks, since Robert Parry's health issues led to his hospitalization and to his untimely passing, his assistant editor, Chelsea Gilmour, and I ... As he recalled in Consortiumnews.com's mission statement, as a young reporter, he was “expected to seek out those alternative views, not dismissÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 4, 2018
Parry, who died on January 27 after a recent diagnosis of pancreatic cancer at age 68, was also a Boomer reporter who cut his teeth on the biggest scandals in recent memory. As an Associated Press journalist he broke the story of Colonel Oliver North's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair in 1985. A yearÃâà...
The Intercept
February 4, 2018
The universe is darker and colder without Robert Parry. But he left us detailed instructions on how to build as big a fire as we want. If we'd like to have decent lives in a functional country, he would strongly encourage all of us to get to work on that right now. Top photo: Robert Parry was presented an I.F.Ãâà...
Salon
February 4, 2018
As an Associated Press reporter in the 1980s he broke some of the biggest stories of the decade, notably the scandal known as Iran–Contra. ... “Robert Parry's death Saturday morning leaves a giant hole in American journalism,” the celebrated filmmaker said when the New York Times called him forÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
February 4, 2018
It was subsequently discovered that it had been brought on by undiagnosed pancreatic cancer. Parry began his career as a journalist after graduating from Colby College in Maine in 1971. He went to work briefly at a newspaper published by his father in Framingham, Massachusetts, before being hired byÃâà...
The American Conservative
February 2, 2018
Parry, who died on January 27 after a recent diagnosis of pancreatic cancer at age 68, was also a Boomer reporter who cut his teeth on the biggest scandals in recent memory. As an Associated Press journalist he broke the story of Colonel Oliver North's involvement in the Iran-Contra affair in 1985. A yearÃâà...
The Boston Globe
January 31, 2018
NEW YORK — Robert Parry, a tenacious investigative reporter and author who exposed details of the Reagan administration's secret support for Nicaraguan rebels in the 1980s, died on Saturday in Arlington, Va. He was 68. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife, Diane Duston, said. Mr. Parry won theÃâà...
New York Times
January 29, 2018
Robert Parry, a tenacious investigative reporter and author who exposed details of the Reagan administration's secret support for Nicaraguan rebels in the 1980s, died on Saturday in Arlington, Va. He was 68. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Diane Duston. Mr. Parry won the George PolkÃâà...
Common Dreams
January 29, 2018
News that investigative journalist Robert Parry—who broke some of the key Iran/Contra stories as a reporter for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980's—died over the weekend has been met with an outpouring of sadness among readers and a wave of reflections from fellow journalists whoÃâà...
The Nation.
January 29, 2018
After winning acclaim, including a Polk Award, as an Associated Press reporter who broke many big stories on deadly US policies in Central America, he spent three years at Newsweek—where he saw top editors collaborating with officials of the George H.W. Bush administration on what should be sharedÃâà...
Common Dreams
January 28, 2018
It is with a heavy heart that we inform Consortiumnews readers that Editor Robert Parry has passed away. As regular readers know, Robert (or Bob, as he was known to friends and family) suffered a stroke in December, which – despite his own speculation that it may have been brought on by the stress ofÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
January 28, 2018
Robert Parry, a longtime investigative journalist who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985 for his Associated Press exclusives about the CIA's production of an ... After leaving the AP in 1987, Parry worked for Newsweek until 1990 and then became an investigative reporter for the PBS series "Frontline.".
Voice of America
January 28, 2018
Robert Parry, a longtime investigative journalist who was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985 for his Associated Press exclusives about the CIA's production of an ... After leaving the AP in 1987, Parry worked for Newsweek until 1990 and then became an investigative reporter for the PBS series "Frontline.".
Consortium News
December 31, 1999
By Robert Parry. In disclosing the deaths of two Western hostages in a U.S. drone strike on an Al-Qaeda compound, President Barack Obama said on ... though those denials were not included in the article on Thursday by New York Times' national security reporter Michael R. Gordon, who treated theÃâà...
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