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Preface
For decades, I have closely read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and one or two major newspapers every morning. (...) Their biases in certain areas had always been apparent to me. But I was confident that by comparing and contrasting the claims of these different publications and applying some common sense, I could obtain a reasonably accurate version of reality. I WAS MISTAKEN.
— Dec 28, 2023 08:09AM
For decades, I have closely read The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and one or two major newspapers every morning. (...) Their biases in certain areas had always been apparent to me. But I was confident that by comparing and contrasting the claims of these different publications and applying some common sense, I could obtain a reasonably accurate version of reality. I WAS MISTAKEN.
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(Decay of Constitutional Democracy)
Most recently, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have claimed the inherent right of an American president to summarily execute anyone anywhere in the world, American citizen or not, whom White House advisors have privately decided was a bad person.
— Dec 30, 2023 02:06AM
Most recently, President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have claimed the inherent right of an American president to summarily execute anyone anywhere in the world, American citizen or not, whom White House advisors have privately decided was a bad person.
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Does China's rise necessarily imply America's decline? Not at all: human economic progress is not a zero-sum game.
— Dec 30, 2023 01:56AM
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China's Rise, America's Fall
Which superpower is more threatened by its extractive elites?
April 17, 2012
But does the Chinese giant have feet of clay?
— Dec 30, 2023 01:52AM
Which superpower is more threatened by its extractive elites?
April 17, 2012
But does the Chinese giant have feet of clay?
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...[McCain] had instead served as one of the leading figures in a monumental act of national treachery, our media took no notice.
— Dec 29, 2023 01:46AM
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Once I clicked that link, I encountered a very different John McCain.
The author of that remarkable 8,000-word exposé- McCain and the POW cover-up published on The Nation Institute's website- was Sidney Shanberg one of America's foremost Vietnam War journalists.
— Dec 29, 2023 01:39AM
The author of that remarkable 8,000-word exposé- McCain and the POW cover-up published on The Nation Institute's website- was Sidney Shanberg one of America's foremost Vietnam War journalists.
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Was Rambo Right?
Hundreds of POW may have been left to die in Vietnam, abandoned by their government - and our media
May 25, 2010
— Dec 29, 2023 01:30AM
Hundreds of POW may have been left to die in Vietnam, abandoned by their government - and our media
May 25, 2010
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Following 9/11, our Mideast strategy became similarly irrational.
— Dec 29, 2023 01:24AM
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The Life and Legacy of Lt. Gen. William Odom
While other top brass played press agents for administration's war, William Odom told the truth about Iraq, though few listened
September 8, 2008
— Dec 28, 2023 08:27AM
While other top brass played press agents for administration's war, William Odom told the truth about Iraq, though few listened
September 8, 2008
