The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government.

— Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

Monday, September 16, 2002

Parry, Robert: Lost History

Two Boner image: This is a work that breaks new ground, and quite possibly forced changes in the way the government either does business, or hides it.

Parry, Robert (1999) Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth’. Arlington, VA: The Media Consortium, 304 pp.
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Robert Parry was among the first to break the stories that later became known as “Iran-Contra.” In this book, he reviews that history, showing through example how the Reagan and Bush, Sr. administrations systematically rolled back the gains in press freedom following the Watergate scandal and how they used that lack of oversight to operate well outside the law. Parry is also the author of Trick or Treason, which covers the October Surprise operation and maintains an excellent website at The Consortium.

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