Heading into the 2024 U.S. presidential election season, a Quinnipiac poll has found that “preserving democracy” is the top concern of American voters, coming in just ahead of immigration and the economy. A total of 21 percent of respondents said that democracy is the country’s №1 issue, with climate change, health care, crime, racial inequality and international […]
Now that the International Court of Justice has ruled that South Africa’s claims of genocide against Israel are plausible and ordered Israel to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope” of the UN Convention on Genocide, the question is how Israel and its backers will respond. Israel has […]
The annual Christmas controversies are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the origins of Christmas and its basic tenets. This video — adapted from the book How Christmas Became Christmas by Nathaniel Parry — explains that the holiday has as much to do with the earth’s rotation around the sun as it does with the […]
By Nathaniel Parry Thirty years ago, in October 1993, a full-length stop motion production was released that changed the way millions of people think about Halloween and Christmas. The Nightmare Before Christmas, based on a poem written by Tim Burton that was inspired by Clement Clarke Moore’s “T’was the Night Before Christmas,” follows a character named […]
Four decades after allegations initially surfaced of a secret mission by Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential election campaign to derail President Jimmy Carter’s re-election bid by sabotaging his efforts to free 52 American hostages being held in Iran, the New York Times is finally giving the story the attention it deserves by publishing a front-page story on Saturday that features […]
By Nat Parry In what may be the first salvo in this year’s War on Christmas, Disney+’s series The Santa Clauses has resurrected a familiar trope in laying the blame for the supposed lack of holiday cheer on political correctness run amok — specifically an alleged aversion to saying “Merry Christmas” in our modern, multicultural society. With […]
New reader by late journalist Robert Parry covers half-century of U.S. scandals, wars, and deception
American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader Edited and with an afterword by Nat Parry; foreword by Diane Duston $28.99 | https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/842300-american-dispatches A new compilation of Robert Parry’s writings, American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader, provides an illuminating history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries – a troubling recent past that Parry meticulously chronicles […]
As 2017 drew to a close, my wife, daughters, sister-in-law and I were eagerly preparing for a family trip to Australia, a planned month-long excursion that was two years in the making. Traveling just after Christmas, we would start on the west coast of the continent and then make our way eastward, stopping in the […]
In the latest installment from The Election That Will Not End, a renewed attack on third party supporters for supposedly enabling Donald Trump’s surprise victory last year is making headlines, with political commentator Bill Maher leading the charge against those who could not bring themselves to supporting the Hillary Clinton-Tim Kaine Democratic ticket in Election […]
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