Help Consortiumnews Fight ‘Group Thinks’
From Editor Robert Parry: In our almost 20 years,
Consortiumnews has had one preeminent goal: to challenge and correct
false narratives because we know how misguided “group thinks” –
especially in a nation as powerful as the United States – can get many
innocent people killed and cause lots of other damage.
Over
those two decades, we have worked to straighten out many crooked
storylines by applying the traditional rules of honest journalism, by
sticking closely to the facts and by trying our best to explain
unfolding events to our readers, who now stretch around the world and
include both common citizens and government leaders.
But for us to
continue to perform this service, we need your help. Except for some
book sales, we rely on the generosity of our readers. So, if you can,
please consider a donation to our tax-exempt non-profit. You can use a credit card online (we accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover) or you can mail a check to Consortium for Independent Journalism (CIJ); 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 102-231; Arlington VA 22201.
Barack Obama, then President-elect, and President George W. Bush at the White House during the 2008 transition.
readers wanting to use PayPal, you can address contributions to our
account, which is named after our e-mail address: “consortnew @
aol.com”. We are also registered with PayPal’s Giving Fund under the
name Consortium for Independent Journalism. (Since we are a 501-c-3
non-profit, donations by American taxpayers may be tax-deductible.)
Donations
of any size are appreciated. But we also are offering a choice of
thank-you gifts for those who can give $125, $150 or more.
For donations of $125 or more, you can receive the new edition of my first book, Fooling America,
which was originally published in 1992 and has been out of print for
many years. Along with it, we’ll include a CD of a book talk that I gave
in Los Angeles, explaining what was then a little understood
phenomenon, the corruption of the mainstream media.
Or for
donations of $150 or more, we can send you the DVD of the movie, “Kill
the Messenger,” recalling the mainstream media’s betrayal of the late
investigative reporter Gary Webb who was punished for his work exposing
the Contra-cocaine scandal – plus a CD of Webb and me discussing the
topic before a crowd in Santa Monica, California, in 1996.
If you wish to get one of the thank-you gifts, just follow up your donation with an e-mail to us at consortnew@aol.com
with instructions on where to mail it. We’ll pay the shipping charges.
(To save you time, we’ll assume that any donations of $125 are for Fooling America
and the related CD, and that if you donate $150, you want “Kill the
Messenger” and that CD – and we’ll send them to the address attached to
your credit card.).
–Another way to help Consortiumnews survive is to buy my three-book trilogy on the Bush dynasty – Secrecy & Privilege, Neck Deep and America’s Stolen Narrative
– for the discount price of only $34, less than half the cover price.
Given Jeb Bush’s presidential run, it contains important history that
Americans should know.
To get the trilogy, just go to Consortiumnews.com’s “Donate”
button and make a $34 “donation” using Visa, Mastercard, American
Express or Discover. We will read a “donation” of that amount as an
order for the trilogy. If your mailing address is the same as your
credit card billing address, we will ship the books to that address. If
your mailing address is different, just send us an e-mail at consortnew@aol.com and we will make the adjustment.
You
can also take advantage of this trilogy offer by mailing a check for
$34 to The Media Consortium; 2200 Wilson Blvd.; Suite 102-231; Arlington
VA 22201. Or you can use our PayPal account, “consortnew @ aol.com.”
Just make sure you include your mailing address in the message. (A
portion of each sale will go to support our investigative journalism.)
For U.S. orders of the trilogy, we will pay for the shipping. (If
you are outside the United States, please add $20 for the additional
postage – that is a total of $54 – and e-mail us the precise mailing
address.)
–Another contribution option is to donate stock
or other equities, which can offer a tax advantage to you if the stock
has appreciated in value. If this stock-donation option appeals to you, I
suggest you discuss it with your broker and then contact me at consortnew@aol.com for specific instructions on how to transfer the stock.
Again, thanks for your support and for making our nearly two decades of honest journalism possible.
Robert
Parry is a longtime investigative reporter who broke many of the
Iran-Contra stories for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s.
He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 to create an outlet for
well-reported journalism that was being squeezed out of an increasingly
trivialized U.S. news media.
