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Piers Kicks • Into The Void
Arafat proved the right wing of Israel right and walked away from the deal, igniting another bloody uprising in his wake. The final straw was Israel’s capture of the ship Karine A in 2002, which was headed from Iran to Gaza loaded with fifty tons of weapons. The ship convinced the Americans that Arafat was, in fact, still a terrorist. They scaled b
... See moreNoa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
The man that the Times article reported as being both “sadder” and “wiser” than when he was first imprisoned went on to construct one of humanity’s darkest regimes, ignited a war that killed tens of millions of people, and engineered the world’s first program of mechanized genocide, making him the last person a reader of the Times should think “was
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Peril
It has short-circuited the normal mechanisms for how the United States as a nation goes to war, and turned the American president into the final arbiter of whether specific people in far-off lands live or die.
Mark Mazzetti • The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
When Hitler seized Poland in 1939, the region of western Ukraine known as Galicia that had until then been under Polish control suddenly fell to Moscow. Stalin and his Ukrainian Communist Party subordinate Nikita Khrushchev wasted no time in purging the region of anyone who might possibly fight the Soviet Union’s annexation: farmers who resisted co
... See moreAndy Greenberg • Sandworm
About this time, Trump is beginning to get pounded mercilessly in the media for saying “all Mexicans are rapists.” Except he never said that. The widespread mischaracterization of his words is stunning from my viewpoint as a traditional journalist.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
After a suspension, Williams is reinstated in the anchor chair at MSNBC—where he later criticizes the Trump team for spreading fake news.