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      Triumph of Conventional Wisdom: AP Expunges Iran/Contra Pardons from Barr's Record

      Triumph of Conventional Wisdom: AP Expunges Iran/Contra Pardons from Barr's Record

      As attorney general in 1992, Barr endorsed Bush’s pardons of Reagan administration officials in the Iran/Contra scandal

      Sam Husseini
      Jan 15, 2019

      A president facing a major scandal, just as the highest-profile trial is about to begin, pardons the indicted or convicted officials around him to effectively stop the investigation that's closing in on his own illegal conduct.

      NYT: Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair

      Trump soon? We'll see. But this actually describes what President George H.W. Bush did in 1992.

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      In Open Letter, Scholars and Activists Call on Bernie Sanders to Embrace Foreign Policy That Rejects US Militarism, Bloated Pentagon Budget

      In Open Letter, Scholars and Activists Call on Bernie Sanders to Embrace Foreign Policy That Rejects US Militarism, Bloated Pentagon Budget

      "We believe that Dr. King was correct to assert that racism, extreme materialism, and militarism needed to be challenged together rather than separately, and that this remains true," the group of over 100 scholars and activists write

      Andrea Germanos
      Nov 27, 2018

      Offering their "advice in a spirit of friendship" in an open letter issued on Wednesday, over 100 noted intellectuals, left-wing academics, and progressive activists have urged Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to lay out clear proposals for a foreign policy that rejects U.S. militarism, overseas misadventures, and the outrageous Pentagon budget that continues to cripple funding for many of the progressive programs and policy solutions the senator advocates.

      Given the $1 trillion annually in so-called "national security spending" as well as the military industrial complex's impact on the environment and "the erosion of liberties," Sanders's public comments and policy proposals should address head-on the military and its spending, the group writes in the open letter.

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      Trump's "Nuclear Option" Against a Free Press

      Newswire Editor
      Nov 07, 2018

      The suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's White House press pass has caused a major controversy. In "The Trump-Media Logrolling," Institute for Public Accuracy senior analyst Sam Husseini, who was expelled from the Trump-Putin news conference in Helsinki and locked up, recently wrote that beneath the heated rhetoric, there is a symbiotic relationship between Trump and establishment media. Husseini noted, for example, that mainstream outlets often ignore major attacks on WikiLeaks and other non-establishment media.

      ExposeFacts, a project of IPA, released a statement by Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg in 2017, "Trump Threats to WikiLeaks 'Nuclear Option' Against the First Amendment," which stated: "If journalists and publishers fail to call this out, denounce and resist it -- on the spurious grounds that Julian is 'not a real journalist' like themselves -- they're offering themselves up to Trump and Sessions for indictments and prosecutions, which will eventually silence all but the heroes and heroines among them."

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