Election '08: Here Comes the Sludge
Sarah Palin's new guilt-by-association attacks on Barack Obama's patriotism mark Campaign 2008's long-expected descent into the sewers, reports Robert Parry. October 6, 2008

Alaska GOP's Last-Ditch Palin Defense
Only days before a scheduled report on Gov. Sarah Palin's "Troopergate" scandal, Republican allies in Alaska are trying to shut down the inquiry, Jason Leopold reports. October 6, 2008

Paying the Piper, Big Time -- Video
To understand how the United States lost its way, you must go back three decades. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. October 6, 2008

Congress OKs Huge Pentagon Budget
With the focus on a $700 billion Wall Street bailout, the Pentagon hauled in $615 billion. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. October 5, 2008

Fall Fundraising Goal: $15,000
With Election 2008 just over the horizon, there might be no more important time for the work we do at Consortiumnews.com. Read why -- and help us meet our goal. September 29, 2008

Neocon Desperation Is Showing
Neoconservative commentators cheered Sarah Palin's debate performance, but the praise was so excessive it had a touch of desperation to it, Robert Parry reports. October 3, 2008

Wall St. Bailout: 'Plan B' for Buffett
Taxpayers might find the Wall Street bailout easier to buy if it tracked Warren Buffett's recent investments that stand to profit from a recovery, as Brent Budowsky suggests in this guest essay. October 3, 2008

The People's Republic of Wall Street
Washington's bumbling bailout of Wall Street says a lot about the trouble in both power sectors. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. October 2, 2008

John McCain v. The Truth
John McCain -- known to some colleagues as "Sen. McNasty" -- is letting his dark side out as his campaign goes through some dark days, writes Robert Parry. October 2, 2008

New Witness Said to Implicate Palin
A key witness in Alaska's "Troopergate" investigation now recalls getting pressured by aides of Gov. Sarah Palin to punish her ex-brother-in-law, reports Jason Leopold. October 1, 2008

Talking to the Taliban
Afghan President Hamid Karzai sees the need for peace talks with the Taliban. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. October 1, 2008

To Joe Biden: Time for Confession
Sen. Joe Biden has voiced regret for backing George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, but former CIA analyst Ray McGovern feels it's time for a fuller confession of complicity in this bloody disaster. September 30, 2008

Pakistan's Anti-Democratic Tendencies
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari retains the dictatorial framework of his predecessor. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 29, 2008

Assessing the Bush Doctrine
George W. Bush insists his "war on terror" is winning, but is that just another delusion? Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 29, 2008

Debate Evades Dark Realities
Barack Obama and John McCain weren't even asked possibly the biggest foreign policy question, whether they would continue the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war, notes Robert Parry. September 27, 2008

Obama-McCain Debate Disappointment
The first debate between Barack Obama and John McCain left a lot on the sidelines. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 27, 2008

Wanted: Another Franklin Roosevelt
When the United States faced an earlier financial crisis, President Franklin Roosevelt argued against fear and offered common-sense government solutions, recalls Michael Winship. September 26, 2008

Alaskan Officials Allege Palin Cover-up
A lawyer for the Alaskan lawmakers investigating an alleged abuse of power by Gov. Sarah Palin claims the McCain-Palin campaign is behind an obstruction of the inquiry, Jason Leopold reports. September 26, 2008

America Pays the Piper, Big Time
To understand how the United States got itself into today's bailout mess, one has to look back three decades to the rise of Ronald Reagan, the neocons and the anti-regulators, notes Robert Parry. September 24, 2008

Wall St. Bailout Meets Resistance
American lawmakers are livid about the Bush administration's Wall Street bailout. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 24, 2008

Bush's 'War on Terror' Legacy
George W. Bush bade farewell to the United Nations he once mocked as irrelevant. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 24, 2008

Pakistani Civil War Feared
Violence and unrest continue to spread in nuclear-armed Pakistan. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 23, 2008

Obama, McCain Spar over Bailout
The proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout could shape the next administration. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 23, 2008

Rich Reign: Wall St. to Yankee Stadium
Despite Wall Street's meltdown, New York's financial elites can look forward to "golden parachutes" and skybox seats at the new Yankee Stadium, Bill Moyers and Michael Winship write. September 22, 2008

John McCain's 'Straight Mess Express'
Though a devotee of deregulation, John McCain says he can handle the financial crisis. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 22, 2008

Wall St. Bailout Reveals Failed Policies
President Bush says the Wall Street bailout will help Main Street, but only indirectly. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 22, 2008

Will International Law Reach Bush?
There's little doubt that George W. Bush committed the "supreme international" crime by invading Iraq, but it's harder to envision Bush facing justice, writes Peter Dyer. September 21, 2008

Palin's 'Troopergate' Battle Rages
Sarah Palin's push to stop the investigation into her firing of Alaska's public safety commissioner is running into resistance from lawmakers unwilling to surrender, reports Jason Leopold. September 20, 2008

Change in US Command for Iraq
General David Petraeus hands over command in Iraq to a military hardliner. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 18, 2008

Who Is Sarah Palin, Really?
In tracking the mystery of who is Sarah Palin, historian Lisa Pease looked back on the Republican vice presidential nominee's early days as mayor of the tiny town of Wasilla. September 17, 2008

Lipstick on Polar Bears
While Campaign '08 focuses on metaphors about lipstick on various animals, the world's global warming problem is like the Titantic heading for a shrinking iceberg, Michael Winship observes. September 16, 2008

US Bank Shake-ups Shock Markets
Continued fallout from the U.S. financial crisis humbles two Wall Street giants. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 16, 2008

In Case You Missed These Stories
Once a month, we look back at some of the previous month's special stories that might have flown by without getting the attention they deserved. Here's a selection from August. September 15, 2008

Palin Claims Right to See All State Files
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is fighting a probe into an alleged abuse of power by claiming an unlimited right to pry into the files of her ex-brother-in-law and all other state workers, Jason Leopold reports. September 14, 2008

Will McCain-Palin Lies Hurt Them?
John McCain and Sarah Palin are stretching the limits on campaign dishonesty as they tell lies about their records and their opponent. But Robert Parry asks, will they pay a price? September 13, 2008

Sarah Palin Stares Down the World
The Republican vice presidential nominee vows not to "blink" in the face of U.S. enemies. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 13, 2008

Equal Time for Joe Biden
If ABC News interviews Joe Biden covering the same ground as Sarah Palin, the voters might get a better sense of who's qualified, Mary MacElveen suggests in this guest essay. September 13, 2008

The Truth and Sarah Palin
When Sarah Palin was plucked from obscurity, we didn't focus on her personal life; we zeroed in on her record -- and discovered a very different reality from what was first reported. September 12, 2008

A 9/11 'What-If?'
What would have happened if the United States had stuck to its rule-of-law principles after 9/11 and brought al-Qaeda leaders to justice, rather than waging a "war on terror," asks Peter Dyer. September 11, 2008

Did al-Qaeda Succeed?
The 9/11 attacks opened the door to neocon strategies that overreached in the Middle East -- and now U.S. intelligence foresees "diminished" American power in the future, Robert Parry reports. September 11, 2008

Canada Pushes Climate-Change Action
In the midst of parliamentary elections, Canadians are making climate-change an issue. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 12, 2008

US Commandos Strike Inside Pakistan
President Bush has green-lighted U.S. cross-border raids from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 11, 2008

Iran's Road Less Traveled to Nukes
Despite Bush administration alarms about Iran building a nuclear bomb, the top U.S. intelligence analyst still sees no evidence that Iran has restarted a weapons program, Ray McGovern writes. September 10, 2008

Mocking Constitutional Rights
Sarah Palin's derision toward Barack Obama for wanting to read terrorism suspects "their rights" underscored the growing contempt in the GOP for the U.S. Constitution, notes Nat Parry. September 10, 2008

ACLU Challenges RNC Arrests
The ACLU sees hundreds of preemptive arrests at the GOP convention as part of a pattern. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 10, 2008

Fox Guest Attacks Rachel Maddow
Fox News hosts laughed when a guest dismissed Rachel Maddow as a "Lesbian Air America host," notes Brent Budowsky. September 10, 2008

The Rising Cost of the Iraq 'Surge'
The U.S. news media's conventional wisdom about the "successful surge" in Iraq may not stand up to serious scrutiny but it is reshaping Campaign 2008 and may mean a longer war, Robert Parry writes. September 9, 2008

Palin's Strange Probe of a Trooper
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband Todd appear to have conducted a rogue investigation into worker's comp claims by her ex-brother-in-law, a state trooper, reports Jason Leopold. September 9, 2008

Bush 'Nationalizes' Mortgage Giants
In everything but name, Washington has "nationalized" Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 9, 2008

Storm Troopers at the RNC
George W. Bush may have skipped the Republican National Convention but his theory of "preemption" was there in the pre-convention police raids against protesters, as Ray McGovern reports. September 8, 2008

Bush Still Fights House Subpoenas
George W. Bush shows how to slowroll a congressional investigation by using legal delaying tactics, reports Jason Leopold. September 8, 2008

Sarah Palin's Media No-Show
Three of the four big party nominees were slated for the Sunday talk shows, but not Sarah Palin, who refuses to submit to serious questioning from the political press corps, notes Mary MacElveen. September 7, 2008

Palin's 'Trooper-gate' Cover-up
Sarah Palin is learning from the GOP cover-up playbook as she obstructs a probe into her alleged abuse of power, trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired from the state troopers, reports Robert Parry. September 6, 2008

McCain's Neocon Evolution
GOP presidential nominee John McCain has aligned himself with the neocon movement. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 6, 2008

McCain Cites His 'Love of Country'
John McCain portrayed himself as a man saved by his "love of country." Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 6, 2008

McCain-Palin: 'Phonies Squared'
The John McCain/Sarah Palin ticket is hailed as "Maverick Squared," but a closer look at their records suggests a more accurate nickname might be "Phonies Squared," writes Robert Parry. September 5, 2008

Convention Police Bust the Press
Outside the Republican National Convention, police rounded up protesters and the independent journalists who were covering the protests, as Michael Winship explains in this guest essay. September 5, 2008

A Dissent on Palin's Success
The U.S. news media is oohing over Sarah Palin's speech to the Republican convention, but Brent Budowsky disagrees about the long-term success of her negative tone. September 5, 2008

Palin Pits Herself as GOP 'Pit-Bull'
Sarah Palin energized the GOP with her eagerness to serve as John McCain's "pit-bull." Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 4, 2008

McCain Keeps Distance from Bush
Fighting to protect his "maverick" image, John McCain seeks separation from George Bush. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 4, 2008

The Anti-Obama Hate-Fest
The overwhelmingly white Republican National Convention is letting loose on Barack Obama with ridicule and contempt, but many of the GOP claims aren't true, Robert Parry reports. September 4, 2008

Lieberman Hails McCain's 'Fear' Factor
Sen. Joe Lieberman says John McCain would spread "fear" among America's enemies. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 4, 2008

Russia's President Bristles at Criticism
Russia's President Dimitri Medvedev was on the defensive about European criticism. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 4, 2008

Amy Goodman Describes Arrest
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and others were caught in police sweeps at GOP Convention. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 3, 2008

Palin's 'Reformer' Myth
Sarah Palin built her short political career on an image as a "reformer," but some Alaskan journalists discovered she was committing the same abuses that she was decrying, writes Jason Leopold. September 3, 2008

Supposed Reformer Secured Earmarks
Many U.S. reporters bought the myth of Sarah Palin as government reformer, but it turns out she played the traditional lobbying game to secure pork spending, as Brent Budowsky notes. September 3, 2008

Palin Favored the 'Bridge to Nowhere'
You might say Sarah Palin was for the "Bridge to Nowhere" before she was against it. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 2, 2008

Did Palin Family Feud Affect Troopers?
Alaskan police representatives claim Gov. Sarah Palin may have let her animosity toward one state trooper spill over into retaliation against the entire department, reports Jason Leopold. September 2, 2008

Palin's Trouble with the Police
In her two executive jobs in Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin has fired senior police officials whom she deemed insufficiently loyal -- and now faces a probe into an abuse of power, writes Robert Parry. September 1, 2008

Obama v McCain on Iran
Barack Obama and John McCain offer different approaches toward confronting Iran. Watch TheRealNews.com's video. September 1, 2008

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A Cold Rain: Excerpt from Neck Deep
With George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001, the United States was at an ominous turning point, handing the White House and its immense power to a popular-vote loser who disdained democracy. Official Washington was oblivious to the danger, but thousands of Americans braved an icy rain to protest this travesty of the nation's principles.

Lost History: How the Neocons Did It
If you want to know how the neoconservatives got control of the most powerful nation on earth, Robert Parry’s Lost History is a must-read. (To read more, click here.)