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Banishing Truth

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Luther Blissett

By Chris Hedges Source: TruthDig The investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, in his memoir “Reporter,” describes a moment when as a young reporter he overheard a Chicago cop admit to murdering an African-American man. The murdered man had been falsely described by … Continue reading →

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The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Paul Street Source: Consortium News There are good reasons to bemoan the presence of the childish, racist, sexist and ecocidal, right-wing plutocrat Donald Trump in the White House. One complaint about Trump that should be held at arm’s-length by … Continue reading →

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Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Luther Blissett

By Reed Richardson Source: FAIR If journalism resigns itself to being a “first draft of history,” Ken Burns’ popular PBS documentaries, written by Lynn Novick, have increasingly aspired to—and achieved—a coveted status as popular historical canon. This has, in part, been accomplished by … Continue reading →

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