What 2010 will demand of investigative independent journalists, and you.

Editor and publisher of the first independent investigative web site, founded in 1995, Robert Parry writes: ... Over the past three decades, the Left has done little to build a media/think tank infrastructure that can challenge Washington’s center-right conventional wisdom either Inside-the-Beltway or in the cities and towns of Middle America.

The Left has actually reduced its media presence in Washington. For instance, one of the Left’s highest-profile magazines, The New Republic, was sold to neoconservative Martin Peretz, who turned it into an incubator for neocon and right-wing pundits, such as Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barnes.

The Left has concentrated what little money it does spend on media on West Coast outlets, mostly in San Francisco, three hours behind and 3,000 miles away from the political front lines of Washington. ...

And former Senior CIA Analyst Ray McGovern who writes regularly from Consortium News declares it is "Not Just Paranoia" in his recent "Are U. S. Presidents Afraid of the CIA?":

In that fear, President Obama stands in the tradition of a dozen American presidents. Harry Truman and John Kennedy were the only ones to take on the CIA directly.

Worst of all, evidence continues to build that the CIA was responsible, at least in part, for the assassination of President Kennedy. Evidence new to me came in response to things I included in my article of Dec. 22, “Break the CIA in Two."

What follows can be considered a sequel that is based on the kind of documentary evidence after which intelligence analysts positively lust. ...

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