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Mark Ames @MarkAmesExiled
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Devasting news that the great investigative reporter Robert Parry died. He broke so many great, dangerous stories on CIA-Contra, drug running, Reagan-Bush crimes. Our Radio @TheWarNerd interview with Bob, recorded last year, about his life & journalism patreon.com/posts/radio-wa…
Russiagate shitlords smeared Parry as a "Kremlin disinformation" agent for daring to criticize "intelligence community" narrative. Parry attributed his first stroke to stress caused by Russiagate smear-goons like PropOrNot & their media friends consortiumnews.com/2017/12/31/an-…
I first wrote for Bob 20 years ago. He was one of the rare liberal US journalists interested in critiquing Clinton's catastrophic Russia policy & the Yeltsin oligarchy created under Clinton's watch
Bob Parry broke many of the big Reagan-Iran October Surprise stories. Here's the PBS Frontline investigation featuring Parry at work. (Parry's October Surprise reporting was smeared by young Andrew Sullivan at New Republic)
Spielberg missed this courageous journalism moment: When Newsweek was owned by Katherine Graham, her editors censored Robert Parry's exposé on illegal CIA Contra funding because "Henry Kissinger was Katherine Graham's house guest that weekend" fair.org/media-beat-col…
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