Tag: Russia-gate Censorship

NOVANEWS "But what is perhaps most troubling to me ... is the silence of many civil liberties advocates, liberal politicians and defenders of press freedom who might have been counted on in earlier days ..." Robert Parry A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s and the early 1980s is that then – even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan – there were prominent mainstream journalists who looked askance at the excessive demonization of the Soviet Union and doubted wild claims about the dire threats to U.S. national security from Nicaragua and Grenada. Perhaps the Vietnam War was still fresh enough in people’s minds that senior editors and national...