One of the first and most important news web sites, Consortium News, publishing "independent investigative journalism since 1995", has launched a fundraising goal of a paltry $15,000.
Robert Parry, the main man there (pictured below, center, between his sons), has delivered important factual backgrounders for decades (with sources that any red-blooded journalist worth a spit would drool over), breaking many of the news stories that blew the cover off the Iran-contra controversy of the infamous Reagan administration.
His work continues today with his most recent "Election '08: Here Comes the Sludge" concerning the history of the latest of the McCain-Palin Republican smears about Obama "palling around with terrorists."
[excerpt] ... Several top Republicans told the Washington Post that “McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama’s character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat’s judgment, honesty and personal associations.” McCain aides also left no doubt that the strategy would have a McCarthyistic tinge by highlighting Obama’s limited connections to Ayers, who as a young man in the late 1960s and early 1970s, veered off into violent radicalism in protest of the slaughter going on in the Vietnam War. ...
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[excerpt] ... Several top Republicans told the Washington Post that “McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama’s character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat’s judgment, honesty and personal associations.” McCain aides also left no doubt that the strategy would have a McCarthyistic tinge by highlighting Obama’s limited connections to Ayers, who as a young man in the late 1960s and early 1970s, veered off into violent radicalism in protest of the slaughter going on in the Vietnam War. ...
Read more at Consortiumnews.com and consider a donation, today.
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