Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for ‘objectivity’. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.
– Michael Parenti
An exchange in January with Paul Farhi, Washington Post columnist, about coverage of US foreign policy:
After Kennedy took office, he was unaware that the CIA, in accord with an OK from President Eisenhower and working with the Belgians, had overseen the gruesome torture and brutal murder of the Congo's popular first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. With Lumumba already dead a month and his body dissolved in sulphuric acid, Kennedy called for him to be reintegrated into the new nation's government. The CIA-- Allen Dulles, who JFK foolishly kept on as director-- hadn't told him that they had carried out Eisenhower 's orders to have him murdered as a commie dupe.
Some interesting points arose out of this November 24, 2013 interview on the Big Plantation with G. Edward Griffin. First, in clearing up a misconception about an alleged 100-year charter for the Federal Reserve, he claims there originally was one, when in reality, it was a 20-year charter. 16m – In clearing up misconception about […]
Jacob Hornberger | In response to growing public demands, led by JFKfacts.org, that the CIA release its still-secret, 50-year-old JFK-related records to the American people, the CIA has now issued a statement on the controversy. Even more significant, the issue has now reached the White House...
On November 22, 1963 I was just a kid but I remember thinking, when I was walking down the staircase of my school and heard that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas, that the right-wing hate-mongers and racists had killed the president. In 5 days it will be 50 days since that first impression popped into my brain. It's never going away, no matter how many and how elaborate and how determined the lies the ruling elites put out about how he was assassinated.
