We have lost journalist Robert Parry

Submitted by travelerxxx on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 2:39pm

Many here know of Robert Parry. He had been having serious health issues as of late, and his family today announced his passing.

From an article at Consortium News:

Robert Parry, editor and publisher of Consortiumnews.com, died peacefully Saturday evening....

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Submitted by travelerxxx on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 2:47pm
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No doubt a celebration is in progress at various CIA offices...

So sad.

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Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 3:09pm
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...that is a legacy.

As someone who has been involved with this website since its inception – as a writer, an editor and a reader – I concur with these sentiments. Readers should rest assured that despite my dad’s death, every effort will be made to ensure that the website will continue going strong.

Nat Parry

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Submitted by orlbucfan on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 4:00pm
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similarities between Tricky Dick's 1968 shenanigans and Raygun/Bush/Meese's scams to fool a gullible(!) electorate, and get the two worthless fascist bozos elected and re-elected! Rec'd!!

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 6:34pm
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I read his statement after his stroke when he said that he didn't know if he would continue to write. We have lost a great voice that continued to speak the truth when so many others have sold themselves out.

God speed, Robert

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Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.

Submitted by dfarrah on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 8:54pm

@snoopydawg So sad.

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Submitted by MrWebster on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 7:40pm

Can't say enough about him. No words. Rest in peace.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 9:30pm
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Ronny Reagan had been dead for 30 years, yet it appears that Obama was afraid of his ghost. Yes being president is hard work, but how many other presidents felt hemmed in by a previous ones legacy? We watched as he repeatedly caved to the republicans and even gave them more than they were asking for. I don't think that it was only because of his reaction to Reagan's legacy. I think that he was just furthering the hollowing out of the middle class.
As joe often says, here's a taste. Please take time to read the whole article.

This was written by Parry during Obama's presidency.

At a closed-door White House meeting this month, President Barack Obama justified his repeated concessions to the Right as necessitated by its success over three decades in selling Ronald Reagan’s anti-government message to broad sectors of the American public.

However, at the earlier White House meeting, Obama told the economists that he felt handcuffed by the Right’s ability to rally Americans on behalf of Reagan’s “government-is-the-problem” message. "It was hard to change the narrative after 30 years” of Republican repetition about the evils of big government, one participant quoted Obama as saying.

The AWOL Obama

Obama generally has fit into the mold of a risk-avoidance pol. Despite his protestations that he is eager for a debate on Reaganism and its trickle-down economics, he has shown little stomach for such a fight. Indeed, when he’s had the chance, Obama has followed the timid pattern of most national Democrats in finding excuses to praise Ronald Reagan.

Risk avoidance. I think that this sums up his presidency quite accurately. IMO, his legacy should be The president that could have been or the presidency that wasn't.

Yes Parry will be greatly missed.

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Submitted by chuckutzman on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 10:45pm

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/01/29/this-deeply-held-commitment-a-me...

Rest In Peace.

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Submitted by mimi on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 2:23am
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to see them all go. RIP. Thanks to C99p I learned about him and read all this articles, which mostly were pointed to in Joe's EB. Thank God for Nat Parry, is it his son or his daughter? Thank God for the kids of the world. What would we be without them?

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Submitted by jorogo on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 8:08am
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and an astute analyst, thus, an outcast from corporate media. I browsed a bit last night, saw this from May, 2016....

If the Democratic Party presses ahead and nominates hawkish Hillary Clinton for President, it could recreate the conditions that caused the party to splinter in the late 1960s and early 1970s when anti-war and pro-war Democrats turned on one another and opened a path for decades of Republican dominance of the White House.

This new Democratic crackup could come as early as this fall if anti-war progressives refuse to rally behind Clinton because of her neoconservative foreign policy -- thus infuriating Clinton's backers....

So, the establishment Democrats -- with their grim determination to resuscitate Hillary Clinton's nearly lifeless campaign -- may be engaging in the political equivalent of whistling past the graveyard, as the ghosts of the party's Vietnam War crackup hover over Election 2016.

Thanks, Robert, for the warning not paid heed.

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Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 11:58am
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This is another of the ones we can't replace. Very, very few people did what he did.

All respect to the man. A man of integrity.

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