http://www.consortiumnews.com/ Independent Investigative Journalism Since 1995 EN http://consortiumnews.com/images/consort.jpg http://www.consortiumnews.com 312 37 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110409.html Secret Republican operations around elections in 1968 and 1980 set the U.S. on today's troubled course, says Robert Parry. November 4, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110309a.html Famed diplomat George Kennan's early warning about Vietnam applies as well to Afghanistan today, writes Ray McGovern. November 3, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110309b.html Washington insiders are pressing President Obama to order a "surge" in Afghanistan, but Ivan Eland questions that wisdom. November 3, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110209c.html Noam Chomsky says Barack Obama alone cannot change the course of U.S. foreign policy, Mamoon Alabbasi reports. November 3, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110209.html Congressional concessions to the insurance industry have shrunk the public option to almost nothing, says Robert Parry. November 2, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110209b.html Defense Secretary Robert Gates showed off his annoyance with Japan by snubbing invitations, writes Melvin A. Goodman. November 2, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110109.html Vice President Dick Cheney denied punishing Iraq War critic Joe Wilson and his CIA wife, Valerie Plame, reports Robert Parry. November 2, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/110209a.html The documentary on Michael Jackson's final rehearsals is a revelation of his extraordinary talents, says Lisa Pease. November 2, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/103009a.html As President Obama weighs escalation in Afghanistan, the imperialist poet Rudyard Kipling comes to Ray McGovern's mind. October 30, 2009 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/103009b.html By leaking the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg helped end the Vietnam War, but could that happen today, asks David Swanson. October 30, 2009