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      Media complicity in Iraq War

      20 Years Later, the Stain of Corporate Media's Role in Promoting Iraq War Remains

      "It should not be forgotten that this debacle of death and destruction was not only a profound error of policymaking; it was the result of a carefully executed crusade of disinformation and lies," said one prominent critic.

      Brett Wilkins
      Mar 20, 2023

      As the world this week mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, journalism experts weighed in on the corporate media's complicity in amplifying the Bush administration's lies, including ones about former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's nonexistent nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons upon which the war was waged.

      "Twenty years ago, this country's mainstream media—with one notable exception—bought into phony Bush administration claims about Hussein's stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, helping cheerlead our nation into a conflict that ended the lives of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis," Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian wrote Sunday.

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      'Merciless War Criminal' and Ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Dead at 88

      "The only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that it didn't occur in an Iraqi prison."

      Brett Wilkins
      Jun 30, 2021

      Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. congressman, aide to several Republican presidents, and two-time defense secretary whose torture-laden tenure and ruinous legacy were defined by his lies in service of an unending war that's killed at least hundreds of thousands of people, died Tuesday at age 88.

      "Donald Rumsfeld is responsible for thousands and thousands of deaths and enriching himself in the process. The least we can do is to forever link his name with 'war criminal.'"
      --Veterans for Peace

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      What Will It Take to Defeat Trumpism?

      What Will It Take to Defeat Trumpism?

      Learning lessons from the end of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq.

      John Feffer
      Jun 26, 2020

      Let's assume that Donald Trump loses the election in November.

      Yes, that's a mighty big assumption, despite all the polls currently favoring the Democrats. If the economy begins to recover and the first wave of Covid-19 subsides (without a second wave striking), Donald Trump's reelection prospects could improve greatly. The Republican Party has a huge war chest ready to fund ads galore, massive targeted outreach, and widespread voter suppression. And if all that isn't enough, the president could borrow a tactic from the dictators he so admires and cancel the election outright out of concern over the coronavirus or some fabricated emergency.

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