It's Raining Robert Parry

As I've mentioned before here, I'm a big admirer of the work of the investigative journalist Robert Parry. You'd think he'd be better known, but he has an unfortunate tendency to focus on things that actually matter. How can Viacom make money off THAT?

Anyway, there's a rash of new Robert Parry stuff online, all of which is worth checking out.

1. 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.

Someday, I suspect, someone will investigate the unsavory links between our current buddies in Afghanistan and opium traffickers. They too will be randy conspiracy buffs.

2. 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. You can get Secrecy and Privilege from Buzzflash for a contribution of $29.

3. At Parry's website, he's put up the chapter from Secrecy and Privilege dealing with Kerry's investigation of the Contra-cocaine connection. This has a little more detail than the Salon story.

Now go forth and learn about how our leaders are even more awful than you suspected.

UPDATE: Joshua Bregman points out that Parry was interviewed on October 31 on the show Media Matters, hosted by Robert McChesney.