The release last week of an intensively researched report on the Bush administration’s campaign of deception leading up the Iraq War made a good-sized stir in the blogosphere, if not in corporate media circles. Although the study generally refers to the 935 documented de facto lies as “misleading statements” or “false statements,” the subtitle of […]
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By Chalmers Johnson
[Reblogged from TomDispatch]
History tells us that one of the most unstable political combinations is a country—like the United States today—that tries to be a domestic democracy and a foreign imperialist. Why this is so can be a very abstract subject. Perhaps the best way to offer my thoughts on this is to say […]
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