On the Road -- Spokane WA

On the Road -- Spokane WA

On the Road -- Spokane WA

It has been many years since the first time I visited Spokane, for just a morning, but I am still amazed by the massive cataracts that mark the center of the town. This is one of America's great hidden attractions. Cities are the best!

The parks around this spectacle are exceedingly gracious.

On the Road -- Spokane WA

Whither the Purple Digits

A huge disappointment -- Nat Parry at Consortiumblog

"The Iraqi government is a huge disappointment," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN'S Late Edition on Sunday.

"So far, they've not been able do anything they promised on the political side," the Kentucky Republican said, citing the Iraqis' failure to pass a new oil revenue bill, hold local elections and dismantle the former Baath Party of Saddam Hussein. "It's a growing frustration."

"Republicans overwhelmingly feel disappointed about the Iraqi government," he added. -- Reuters

Small Talk

Tenet-Bush Pre-9/11 'Small Talk'

By Robert Parry
May 6, 2007

In late August 2001, when aggressive presidential action might have changed the course of U.S. history, CIA Director George Tenet made a special trip to Crawford, Texas, to get George W. Bush to focus on an imminent threat of a spectacular al-Qaeda attack only to have the conversation descend into meaningless small talk.

A Brief History of Consortiumnews.com
Robert Parry, Editorer 21, 2004

We founded the Consortiumnews.com Web site in 1995, back in the "early days" of the modern Internet. The site was meant to be a home for important, well-reported stories that weren't welcome in the O.J. Simpson-obsessed, conventional-wisdom-driven national news media of that time.

As one of the reporters who helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal for the Associated Press in the mid-1980s, I was distressed by the silliness and downright creepiness that had pervaded American journalism by the mid-1990s. I feared, too, that the decline of the U.S. press corps foreshadowed disasters that would come when journalists failed to alert the public about impending dangers.

Rediscovered -- Too Funny!

This goes back a way. But it should not be lost. BTW, that lad has now grown up and is advising dubya on etiquette with visiting royals.