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  [NYTr] Democ.Now: Robert Parry on Elliot Abrams
ROBERT PARRY: Well, Juan, he was in the job running the State Department's coverage of Central America at the time when Ollie North, who was then over at the National Security Council, was running the secret war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, support for the so-called Contra Movement that had been banned by Congress.
ROBERT PARRY: He was one of the six Iran-Contra defendants who was given a pardon by President George H.W. Bush on Christmas Eve 1992.
ROBERT PARRY: As you recall, back in the 1980s the Reagan-Bush administration had a policy of treating Iran as a terrorist state, which meant that it was supposedly not getting any help from the United States.
olm.blythe-systems.com /pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20050131/012942.html   (1454 words)

  
 Robert Parry Named to PACCAR Board. - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Robert T. Parry was president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 1986 until his retirement in June 2004.
Parry spent 16 years with Security Pacific Bank culminating in the position of executive vice president and chief economist.
Parry earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-122786758.html   (257 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery: Livres en anglais: Robert Parry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In Parry's self-image, he must be one of the few journalists with the guts, public-spiritedness, and tenacity to unlock official secrets.
Parry answers neither question definitively, but he questions their alibis (that Casey was at a history seminar and Bush on a golf course), makes great hay of omissions in their personal records, and finds to his satisfaction that each could have skittered off to secret meetings.
Parry himself went around the globe, heavily skeptical of those with something to tell him about the "surprise." A musty mystery with many angles and cold leads, this should revivify the interest of patrons who took in, or were taken in by, Gary Sick's October Surprise.
www.amazon.fr /Trick-Treason-October-Surprise-Mystery/dp/187982308X   (420 words)

  
 Investigative Reporter and Author Robert Parry Plumbs History, Unearths the Roots of the Bush Dynasty - BuzzFlash ...
Robert Parry, an award-winning Washington journalist for 27 years, broke many of the stories now known as the Iran-Contra Affair while reporting for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s.
Parry also maintains an astonishing archive and clearinghouse for information on the Bush Family and a running list of scandals and corruption long forgotten by most of the media.
Robert Parry: During the '80s and into the early '90s, the Republican conservative machine was largely built for defensive reasons.
www.buzzflash.com /interviews/04/10/int04054.html   (4020 words)

  
 WorkingForChange-BuzzFlash interview: Robert Parry
The tale of Gary Webb, as we discussed with Robert Parry, not only illustrates many of the abject failings of the corporate press to hold national government officials accountable, it also involves many of the same people from the Reagan Administration now ignominously doing their dirty work for the Bush/Cheney war machine.
Robert Parry: I think, to understand it, you do have to make a quick trip back to the 1970s, when there was more of that kind of journalism.
Robert Parry: It was hard in a situation, especially when reporters came under fierce attack when they tried to do it.
www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?itemid=21994   (6564 words)

  
 Robert Parry Investigates, Like a Real Reporter Should | BuzzFlash.org
Robert Parry is a journalist from the days when it was a profession that required skills and the exposure of the facts.
But we focused on a story that Parry first broke in the '80s and then was picked up by the late Gary Webb, who became a victim of the de facto merger of the corporate media with the Republican Party and its mega-company biases (including securing marketplaces throughout the world by whatever means necessary).
Robert Parry: For the first time, by 1996, enough people were on the Internet and were reading it, pulling it down.
www.buzzflash.com /articles/interviews/053&cid=0&ei=OMLSRZyuKqCIsgGlqqT0Dw   (6861 words)

  
 JeffCohen.org Media Beat Robert Parry
The same attitude that caused Parry to leave AP and Newsweek is now guiding his current activities.
What distinguishes Parry's project from the mass media's cyber-ventures is his passionate belief that journalism has a responsibility to follow the trail of the truth, wherever it leads.
Parry's new journalistic breakthrough is mainly based on U.S. government documents.
www.jeffcohen.org /docs/mbeat19960110.html   (712 words)

  
 WorkingForChange-BuzzFlash interview: Robert Parry (Part 2)
Robert Parry: There's been a phenomenon in Washington for a number of years -- I talk about it in terms of decades -- of letting the Bush family off the hook.
Robert Parry: That's a good question, and it's one that as a professional journalist I've dealt with for a lot of years.
Robert Parry: Rev. Moon is perhaps the deepest pocket for the conservative infrastructure when looked at over the past quarter century.
www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=17985   (3526 words)

  
 Longtime U Chemist Robert W. Parry Dies : University of Utah News Release : December 7th, 2006
Robert Parry was a professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan from 1946 to 1969.
Robert Parry was extremely active in the American Chemical Society.
Parry was founding editor (1962-64) of Inorganic Chemistry, the premier journal in inorganic chemistry, and served on its editorial board from 1962 until 1979.
www.unews.utah.edu /p/?r=120706-1   (1167 words)

  
 BBC News | UK POLITICS | Former MP Robert Parry dies
Mr Parry, a diabetic, was an MP for 27 years before retiring at the last general election following a stroke and a subsequent heart-bypass operation.
Mr Parry, who was arrested by the Chinese in Beijing when he and his colleagues unfurled a massacre protest banner in Tiananmen Square in 1992, was once prominently named in a list compiled by the Conservatives of Labour MPs with Militant sympathies.
Mr Parry was dogged by ill-health during the closing years of his life, but he continued to oppose any policy moves which he saw as edging Labour away from pure socialism.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/672049.stm   (288 words)

  
 Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - Robert Parry Dies at 89   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Robert W. Parry, 89, distinguished professor of chemistry, emeritus, at the University of Utah, died on Dec. 1 from a stroke suffered on Nov. 23.
Parry was also active in various other organizations related to chemistry such as the Gordon Research Conferences and the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry.
Parry is survived by his wife of 61 years, Marjorie; two sons; and five grandchildren.
pubs.acs.org /cen/news/84/i50/8450notw8.html   (440 words)

  
 Robert Parry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Parry is an American investigative journalist who has written extensively about the Iran-Contra scandal.
Along with his AP partner Brian Barger, he was the first to report on Oliver North's activities in the White House basement, and the first to describe the Nicaraguan Contras' involvement with cocaine traffickers.
Parry's work is often cited by conspiracy theorists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Parry   (282 words)

  
 Robert Parry
Parry's other work -daily journalism, magazines, books, television news and the Internet- has landed him in hot spots from Port-au-Prince to Teheran, from Managua to Grenada, from Jerusalem to Washington.
Robert Parry is author of Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, The Press and Project Truth, a narrative published in 1999 about the journalistic struggles in the 1980s to expose the secrets of the Nicaraguan contra operation; and the administration's counterattacks.
Parry is the editor/publisher of IF Magazine; an investigative bi-monthly in the independent journalistic tradition of George Seldes's In Fact and I.F. Stones's Weekly.
www.speakersclearinghouse.org /parry.htm   (275 words)

  
 FTR#485—Interview with Robert Parry and Lucy Komisar—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are presented in this ...
Robert points how characteristic this is of the so-called “liberal news media.” Far from being liberal, they are in fact very conservative—often dishonestly so.
Robert and his colleague Brian Barger first reported the existence of Oliver North’s back-channel support network for the Contras, and freshman Senator John Kerry led the congressional investigation of its operations.
Robert Parry and his colleague Brian Barger broke the story of the Oliver North back channel intelligence operation that supported the Nicaraguan Contra rebels.
www.spitfirelist.com /f485.html   (11956 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | Robert Parry On What the Corporate Media Forgot: The Reagan Administration's Manipulation of ...
Investigative reporter, Robert Parry, especially for listeners for viewers who were kids or not even born at the time, explain the Iran-Contra scandal, please.
ROBERT PARRY: Well, that really is not quite true.
ROBERT PARRY: Well, I think in essence Amy, what we have seen here is a continuation in this administration of some of the approaches that became -- that really became very prominent in the Reagan administration.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/06/07/2022257   (1563 words)

  
 UCLA Anderson School of Management | Gerald Loeb Awards | Robert Parry
Robert Parry is a Bloomberg News editor in Washington overseeing actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies regulating the accounting and securities industries.
In the 1980s, at the Associated Press, Parry wrote many of the early stories that became known as the Iran-Contra Affair, including the first story identifying White House aide Oliver North as a go-between for secret Reagan administration support for the Nicaraguan contra rebels.
Parry received the Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 for his coverage of covert activities by the Central Intelligence Agency in Central America.
www.anderson.ucla.edu /x5617.xml   (122 words)

  
 FEDERAL RESERVE / On the record: Robert Parry
Robert Parry, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, helps run it.
Eight times a year, Parry flies to Washington to join Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, the six other governors who serve at Fed headquarters and the 11 other presidents of the Fed's regional banks to deliberate on interest rates.
Parry's bank is the Federal Reserve's agent in nine Western states, the most populous and geographically largest district of the central bank's 12 regions.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/11/BUGOI62O671.DTL&type=printable   (3268 words)

  
 Robert Parry at AllExperts
Robert Parry is an American investigative journalist who has written extensively about the Iran-Contra scandal, among other things.
Along with his AP partner Brian Barger, he was the first to report on Oliver North's activities in the White House basement, and the first to describe the Nicaraguan Contras' involvement with cocaine traffickers.
Parry's articles on the alleged October Surprise earned him in the 1990s a reputition as a highly controversial journalist.[8] Outside his own web site, articles and interviews by and with Parry have appeared chiefly at sites as salon.com, democracynow.org, thinkingpeace.com, and alternet.org.
en.allexperts.com /e/r/ro/robert_parry.htm   (354 words)

  
 A Tiny Revolution: It's Raining Robert Parry
This new story in Salon by Parry details how John Kerry's Senate investigation revealed the unsavory links between the Contras and cocaine traffickers.
Parry mentions how Newsweek derided Kerry as a "randy conspiracy buff." I guess that's because the media's so liberal.
Buzzflash is running a two part interview with Parry here and here about his new book Secrecy and Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.
www.tinyrevolution.com /mt/archives/000217.html   (257 words)

  
 Robert Parry
Robert Parry has worked as a journalist for The Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline and has reported from Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Iran, Israel and Haiti.
In the 1980s Robert Parry broke many of the stories that later became known as the Iran-Contra affair.
Robert Parry, who has also taught at the New York University Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKparryR.htm   (1649 words)

  
 Robert Parry, Schema-Root rss
Veteran reporter Bob Parry of Consortium News will join us to talk about the verdict, and the limits of what trials like this reveal to the public.
By Robert Parry, Consortium News.
Consortium News - Robert Parry - There is, of course, the possibility that the war preparations are a game of chicken to pressure Iran to accept outside...
schema-root.org /rss/?p=5142   (1610 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery: Books: Robert Parry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Parry answers neither question definitively, but he questions their alibis (that Casey was at a history seminar and Bush on a golf course), makes great hay of omissions in their personal records, and finds to his satisfaction that each could have skittered off to secret meetings.
Parry himself went around the globe, heavily skeptical of those with something to tell him about the "surprise." A musty mystery with many angles and cold leads, this should revivify the interest of patrons who took in, or were taken in by, Gary Sick's October Surprise.
Parry provides the investigative journalism that is the perfect complement to Sick's, a whistle blower and formerly insider.
www.amazon.com /Trick-Treason-October-Surprise-Mystery/dp/187982308X   (2065 words)

  
 FRBSF: Who's Who - Robert Parry
Robert T. Parry has served as president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for 18 years.
A native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Parry received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Dr. Parry first joined the Federal Reserve System at the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., and worked there as a research economist for several years.
www.frbsf.org /federalreserve/people/officers/parry.html   (348 words)

  
 THREAD CLOSED Ask_Rande 7000+ USE NEW THREAD: Robert Parry - SF Fed Chief
Parry's embrace of the New Economy reflects his close proximity to the industry that's largely behind the phenomenon: high-tech companies.
Parry won't speculate on what the Fed might do in the months ahead, but a growing number of analysts think its 15-month-old tightening campaign is over.
To Parry, crude oil approaching $35 a barrel isn't something a central banker wants to see, particularly one overseeing an economy as dependent on the commodity as the United States'.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/42437/302222   (1304 words)

  
 Robert Parry, President, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
Most importantly, Dr. Parry has agreed to devote the bulk of his time to answering your questions...about Fed policy, about the state of the US and California economies, and about his views on productivity, the Internet bubble, and the extraordinary rise and fall of the markets over the past several years.
About Dr. Parry Robert T. Parry has served as president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for the past 16 years.
Parry first joined the Federal Reserve System at the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a research economist for several years.
www.acteva.com /booking.cfm?bevaID=23606   (755 words)

  
 Fooling America: A talk by Robert Parry
Parry: He's asking what I might think about the assassination of President Kennedy.
Parry: I think probably a lot of people don't want to know.
Parry: Well basically, the American people I think, from the polls, believe - first of all they WERE interested in Iran-Contra, much more so than the press wanted to think.
www.copi.com /articles/rparry_a.htm   (7808 words)

  
 Cyrano's Journal Online | Robert Parry on the Bush crime family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
These criminal cases also are reminders of George H.W. Bush’s long record of unsavory associations, including with a Nicaraguan contra network permeated by cocaine traffickers, Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s multi-million-dollar money-laundering operations, and anti-communist Cuban extremists tied to acts of international terrorism.
Now, George W. Bush is faced with his own challenge of containing a rupture of scandals – involving prominent conservatives Abramoff, DeLay and potentially Rove – that have bubbled to the surface and are beginning to flow toward the White House.
Now the ground under George W. Bush and the Republican congressional majority is beginning to shake as fissures crack the surface, warning of a volcanic eruption that could transform the political landscape of Washington.
www.cjonline.org /parryBushCrimefamily.htm   (1891 words)

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