Why is the New York Times concealing the key role that the United States played in the 1965 coup in Indonesia that killed between 500,000 and one million people?
How the Institute for Policy Studies Helped Release the Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers, top secret Defense Department documents that were leaked during the Vietnam War, are finally declassified. The documents shocked the U.S. public at the time of their release 40 years ago, and helped end the Vietnam War. Just like today’s WikiLeaks revelations, the Pentagon Papers helped to wake people up to the falsehoods and atrocities of our overseas wars. This is the story of how Marcus Raskin, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), and others played a key role in the release of the Pentagon Papers.
Pakistan’s Insurgents More Like Our Founding Fathers Than We Know?
The Times claims that Pakistan’s inequitable tax system helps drive the insurgency, but offers no proof.
McClellan Right: Press Too Deferential
When Bush’s former press secretary admits that the administration used a “political propaganda campaign” to sell its case for war and calls the mainstream media “deferential, complicit enablers” – as Scott McClellan does in What Happened – it’s time to examine just how badly the press failed.