tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-355305582024-03-07T23:01:04.388-05:00ConsortiumblogOnline community for <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com"><img src="http://www.consortiumnews.com/images/consortiumnews150.jpg"></a><b>Consortiumblog</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12980048402514422668noreply@blogger.comBlogger2160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-75103382194494791292011-05-11T11:15:00.000-05:002011-05-11T11:16:07.479-05:00Turning a Blind Eye to Bahrain's AbuseBy Lawrence Davidson<br />May 11, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">If you want to see how an ostensibly religious regime can be corrupted into something close to fascism, just take a look at contemporary Bahrain.<br /></p><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/051111a.html">Read on.</a>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-83592132682293112522011-05-10T15:22:00.000-05:002011-05-10T15:23:50.365-05:00The War Against Taxing the RichBy Michael Winship<br />May 10, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Nothing is certain but death and taxes, it used to be said, but in the madcap times we live in, even they're up for grabs.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/051011c.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-90489771878485250472011-05-10T12:15:00.000-05:002011-05-10T12:16:08.885-05:00Declaring Victory Over OsamaBy Ivan Eland<br />May 10, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Although the Obama administration has said that the killing of Osama bin Laden is not a V-E or V-J day — which brought a return to normal times after World War II ended — perhaps it should be.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/051011b.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-62748070641176331762011-05-10T11:03:00.001-05:002011-05-10T11:04:13.836-05:00Attacks on Israeli Critics EscalateBy Danny Schechter<br />May 10, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">First, it was Helen Thomas.<br /></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/051011a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-22791343430813406262011-05-09T08:58:00.001-05:002011-05-09T08:59:35.798-05:00Post-Bin Laden Peace Hopes DimBy Gareth Porter<br />May 9, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">President Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations with the Taliban for peace in Afghanistan.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050911b.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-52308140650846672342011-05-09T08:57:00.000-05:002011-05-09T08:58:02.844-05:00US Policy Still Misreads the Middle EastBy Lawrence Davidson<br />May 9, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Last week, I was in Egypt, a country presently moved by an optimism that reflects a high state of political consciousness.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050911a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-12294076669323691192011-05-08T08:08:00.000-05:002011-05-08T08:09:20.665-05:00The Anti-War Message of Mother's DayBy Gary G. Kohls<br />May 8, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">In 1870 – five years after the American Civil War ended – the disastrous long-term human and economic consequences of the conflict were becoming increasingly apparent, especially to the mothers of the sons and the wives of the husbands who had seen their patriotic men march off to that “inglorious” war and had come home dead or wounded.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050811a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-9422036065690086932011-05-07T14:38:00.000-05:002011-05-07T14:39:35.947-05:00The Curious Bush/Bin Laden SymbiosisBy Robert Parry<br />May 7, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Since Osama bin Laden’s killing on May 1, it has become shockingly clear that the terrorist leader did not spend most of the last decade on the run or hiding in caves. He was holed up in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad enjoying the comforts of family life with his twenty-something-year-old latest wife.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050711.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-33913182413159048522011-05-07T09:14:00.000-05:002011-05-07T09:15:45.636-05:00America's Need for a 'Public Good'By the Rev. Howard Bess<br />May 7, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">The United States was never meant to be a Christian nation. Instead, the Founders envisioned a secular state in which religion would be pursued with complete freedom, but they also understood the need for the young nation to have a moral compass.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050711a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-3400500748438038482011-05-05T09:53:00.000-05:002011-05-05T09:54:00.975-05:00Politics of Revenge and SubmissionBy Phil Rockstroh<br />May 5, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Osama bin Laden is dead. And so is the U.S. republic. We had to destroy our freedoms in order to save them.<br /></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050511b.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-41821238693773302312011-05-05T06:57:00.001-05:002011-05-05T06:58:50.994-05:00What Has Bin Laden's Killing Wrought?By Ray McGovern<br />May 5, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">As America’s morbid celebrations over the killing of Osama bin Laden begin to fade, we are left with a new landscape of risks – and opportunities – created by his slaying at the hands of a U.S. Special Forces team at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050511a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-83735157278060742432011-05-04T15:02:00.001-05:002011-05-04T15:04:00.956-05:00From 'Birtherism' to Bin LadenBy Michael Winship<br />May 4, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">This has been the kind of week that makes news junkies wig out in a frenzy of adrenalin and information overload while driving to distraction people who try to write weekly pieces like this one.<br /></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050411a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-37075471853401080582011-05-03T11:08:00.000-05:002011-05-03T11:09:51.829-05:00'Liberating' Iraq, Now LibyaBy William Blum<br />May 3, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">On April 9, Condoleezza Rice delivered a talk in San Francisco. Or tried to. The former Secretary of State was interrupted repeatedly by cries from the audience of "war criminal" and "torturer". (For which we can thank Code Pink and World Can't Wait.)</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050311b.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-4905400225853733082011-05-03T09:34:00.000-05:002011-05-03T09:36:06.830-05:00A Never-Ending 'War on Terror'By Ivan Eland<br />May 3, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">The WikiLeaks documents released on Guantanamo prisoners indicate appalling military incompetence in haphazardly patching together sketchy and contradictory information that has allowed many high-risk terror suspects to go free, while low-risk or innocent detainees continue to be incarcerated.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050311a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-61517629348123322662011-05-02T12:24:00.001-05:002011-05-02T12:24:56.146-05:00'Birtherism' and the US 'News' MediaBy Danny Schechter<br />May 2, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">In the aftermath of the resolution of the Great Birther bash-up, even as President Obama tried to lay the issue to rest by producing the document that showed, proved, verified, documented, and validated his birth in one of the great states of our disunion, it was said that its release would only fuel more debate and convince no one.<br /></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050211a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-45206434906734918992011-05-02T09:38:00.000-05:002011-05-02T09:39:33.774-05:00Finishing a Job: Obama Gets OsamaBy Robert Parry<br />May 2, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">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.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050211.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-17473668309645630272011-05-01T14:42:00.000-05:002011-05-01T14:43:59.143-05:00The Royal Wedding's Pre-Crime ArrestsBy Coleen Rowley<br />May 1, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Pre-emptive wars and pre-emptive policing have been instituted as a result of the fear planted (and deliberately hyped) in the "war on terror."<br /></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/050111a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-32733893243076751092011-04-30T08:49:00.000-05:002011-04-30T08:51:32.357-05:00Forget Hell: A Rebirth of ChristianityBy the Rev. Howard Bess<br />April 30, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">A few days ago, I received my copy of Time magazine and found that the Rev. Rob Bell, a pastor of a megachurch in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a graduate of my alma mater, Wheaton College, had made the front cover.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/043011b.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-31620302452457376162011-04-30T07:48:00.000-05:002011-04-30T07:50:07.721-05:00The Robber Barons Are Back!By Aerik Vondenburg<br />April 30, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Since the Gilded Age of the 19th century, the wealthy financiers and "robber baron" industrialists have been effectively purchasing power – and creating further revenue for themselves – by directing money into the coffers of business friendly politicians, who in turn vote for lower taxes, special exemptions, tax loopholes, deregulation, etc.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/043011a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-20004578267379068092011-04-29T10:13:00.000-05:002011-04-29T10:15:35.932-05:00Questioning Obama's AmericanismBy Robert Parry<br />April 29, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Some Americans, especially on the Left, seem to have almost forgotten that Barack Obama is an African-American whose rise to the presidency was one of the most unlikely political stories in U.S. history.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/042911.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-72338830694547699042011-04-28T11:08:00.001-05:002011-04-28T11:10:45.905-05:00Petraeus, a Threat to CIA AnalysisBy Ray McGovern<br />April 28, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">The news that President Barack Obama has picked Gen. David Petraeus to be CIA director raises troubling questions, including whether the commander most associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will tolerate objective analysis of those two conflicts.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/042811a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-76493273955415629612011-04-27T12:32:00.001-05:002011-04-27T12:33:53.713-05:00Television Wars: Bombing Serb TVBy Don North<br />April 27, 2011 (Originally published May 4, 1999)<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">On April 23, 1999, at 2:06 a.m. Belgrade time, as NATO was preparing for its 50th anniversary celebration in Washington D.C., two cruise missiles struck the Radio Televizija Srbija (SRT) headquarters in Belgrade.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/042711b.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-90972054731942870232011-04-27T12:28:00.002-05:002011-04-27T12:32:16.309-05:00Trying 'Shock and Awe' in LibyaBy Robert Parry<br />April 27, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Having laughed off Libyan government peace feelers, Official Washington is now beating the drum for a new round of “shock and awe” bombings and close-combat air strikes to “finish the job” of ousting Col. Muammar Gaddafi.<br /></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/042711.html">Read on.</a></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><br /></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-84076178606557606652011-04-26T10:45:00.001-05:002011-04-26T10:47:41.404-05:00Gaddafi Regime Warns of Wider WarBy Morgan Strong<br />April 26, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">The introduction of NATO ground forces into Libya would be met by additional African and Moslem volunteers joining Libyan forces, according to sources close to Col. Muammar Gaddafi, who add that NATO’s targeting of government officials could provoke retaliation against Western leaders.</p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/042611b.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35530558.post-34603040685384367092011-04-26T08:58:00.000-05:002011-04-26T08:59:00.469-05:00Why Wall Street WinsBy Danny Schechter<br />April 26, 2011<br /><p class="article_lead_paragraph">Two years ago as financial reform was put on the U.S. Congressional agenda, a skeptical Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois spoke of the power of the banks over the country’s legislative process.<br /></p><p class="article_lead_paragraph"><a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/042611a.html">Read on.</a></p>Robert Parryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13017654870725528651noreply@blogger.com1