Michael Gordon

The Center for New American Security provides residencies to top national security correspondents while raking in massive funding from the arms industry, Pentagon and State Department. This was originally published by Behind The Headlines at Mint Press News Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it’s a perfect description of the United States today. Located in Washington, the Center […]

Retrospective: On this day three years ago Robert Parry, late founder and editor of this site, examined transparency in government and found that the Obama administration was among the most secretive and manipulative in modern times, tailoring what the public heard about…Read more →

By Sic Semper Tyrannis | Turcopelier | August 1, 2017 There is no longer any doubt that the New York Times is nothing more than a willing cog in the establishment war machine and is happy to serve as a propaganda platform. While there are times that newspapers and electronic media outlets are unwitting dupes […]

Special Report: An existential question facing humankind is whom can be trusted to describe the world and its conflicts, especially since mainstream experts have surrendered to careerism, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The looming threat of World War III,…Read more →

By Rick Sterling | Dissident Voice | April 7, 2017 On Tuesday 4 April there were reports of children and other civilians killed by chemical poisoning in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. There were contradictory reports, some saying they smelled the gas; others claiming it caused immediate death like odorless sarin. On Wednesday 5 […]

Exclusive: The U.S. government and the mainstream media rushed to judgment again, blaming the Syrian government for a new poison-gas attack and ignoring other possibilities, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry With the latest hasty judgment about Tuesday’s poison-gas deaths…Read more →

To the Editor of the New York TimesMichael Gordon, your fake news reporter who lied America into invading Iraq, has written a report (“John McCain Becomes Critic in Chief of the Trump Administration," Feb. 20, 2017, NY Times online) about John McCain’s criticism of President Trump, while omitting McCain’s support for the Iraq invasion, which certainly taints McCain’s judgment and his foreign policy credentials. McCain even sought a U.S. invasion of Syria on the side of al Qaeda.

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 4, 2016 The New York Times’ downward spiral into a neoconservative propaganda sheet continues with another biased lead article, this one on how the Syrian war has heightened U.S.-Russia tensions. The article, bristling with blame for the Russians, leaves out one of the key reasons why the […]

Exclusive: Every day, The New York Times – America’s “paper of record” – sinks deeper into the swamp of propaganda, now reliably touting predictable neocon notions about the Middle East and Russia, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The New York Times’ downward…Read more →