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AP and Atlantic Council Anoint Me “COVID Conspiracy Super-Spreader”— and Erase Ron Unz

Kevin Barrett • February 16, 2021

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The bad news is that two of the most powerful institutions in America have anointed me a “COVID super-spreader.” The good news is that I stand accused of super-spreading “COVID conspiracy theories,” not the actual disease. But the worse news is that the way things are going, “conspiracy spreaders” may soon be quarantined in COVID... Read More

The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticising US Military Aid to Israel

Jonathan Cook • February 11, 2021

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The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticising Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian editors – should come as no surprise. He is only the latest in a long line of journalists, myself included,... Read More

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Would a “Russian Dissident” Do Better in the “Free World?”

Gregory Hood • February 11, 2021

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Most Western media call Russian dissident Alexei Navalny a hero. Mr. Navalny is now in a Russian prison, and our most prestigious newspapers are cheering his anti-Putin crusade. These are official editorial statements from leading publications. “The Times view on Alexei Navalny’s bravery: Russian Hero,” The Times, December 23, 2020 “The Extraordinary Courage of Aleksei... Read More

Off to a Diverse Start

Biden Doubles Down on Some Bad Policies and Appointments

Philip Giraldi • February 11, 2021

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The prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of AIPAC monster to head Pentagon planning for the Middle East. The extension of the nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the United States and the decision to stop directly supporting the war on Yemen may have been the only good... Read More

Prominent Left Wing Columnist Fired By the Guardian for Tweet Criticizing Israel

Eric Striker • February 10, 2021

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Socialist writer Nathan J. Robinson, a fixture in the Bernie Sanders movement, has been fired from his job at the "progressive" newspaper The Guardian after authoring tweets criticizing Congress for prioritizing military aid to Israel over COVID relief for struggling Americans. The Guardian prides itself as one of the most left-wing mainstream media outlets in... Read More

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Zionists Lie As Naturally As They Breathe

Jewish Control, Zionist Subversion and the “Contradictions” of Anti-Semitism

Tobias Langdon • February 2, 2021

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Parasite’s grin: Bibi Netanyahu greets Jonathan Pollard, the Jewish spy who did huge harm to his “own nation” of America on behalf of Israel Like all decent people, I stand unshakably with the powerless Jewish community against the vile scourge of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish racism. And in order to better defend cowering Jews against their... Read More

Zone B Exists, Thus There Is Hope, I Promise You!

The Saker • January 20, 2021

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Today it appears that the triumph of our adversaries is total. I want to post this column saying that I don’t believe for one second that this is true. All I want to do today is explain why. Thus, just to make clear to those alternatively gifted, this is not a comprehensive analysis and I... Read More

Russiagate Redux

Paul Craig Roberts • January 20, 2021

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Hillary & Nancy Say It Wasn’t the stolen election that Discredited American Democracy, It Was Putin’s Order to Trump to Cause an Insurrection on January 6 Listen to the Idiots Into Whose Hands Our Country Has Been Put: Hillary Clinton asks House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if a new Russiagate investigation is necessary in order to... Read More

China Trolls the West’s Delusions and Hypocrisies

Gregory Hood • January 12, 2021

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Respectable political opinion in the West is mostly nonsense. Sometimes, even race realists become so used to the stupidity that we are like the fish who never notice water. Sometimes it takes China, a self-respecting civilization-state, to expose our elites’ silly beliefs and shameless hypocrisy. American journalists and politicians are in a moral panic over... Read More

The Mob Did Not Win!

The Saker • January 11, 2021

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The mob did not win! This is how the supposedly conservative FoxNews celebrated the supposed defeat of a supposed mob. See for yourself: FoxNews finally showed its true face during the election steal when it declared that Trump had lost the election long before any evidence in support of this thesis materialized. It is now... Read More

The Assange Saga: Practicing Real Journalism Is Criminally Insane

Pepe Escobar • January 7, 2021

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Synchronicity is definitely fond of mirror wonderwalls. The Julian Assange saga seemed to have entered a new chapter as he was, in thesis, on his way to – conditional - freedom this past Monday, only one day after the first anniversary of the start of the Raging Twenties: the assassination of Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani.... Read More

What Julian Assange’s Win Today Really Means for the World

Patrick Cockburn • January 5, 2021

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The 10-year campaign by the US government to criminalise reporting critical of its actions has failed in rather peculiar circumstances, with the unexpected decision by the court in London to reject the US demand for Julian Assange's extradition. Judge Vanessa Baraitser gave as the reason for her decision Assange’s mental health and possible suicide risk,... Read More

Assange Wins. the Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed, and Dissent Labelled Mental Illness

Jonathan Cook • January 4, 2021

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The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, is a welcome legal victory, but one swamped by larger lessons that should disturb us deeply. Those who campaigned so vigorously to keep... Read More

National Justice Investigates: American Tax Payers Spend At Least $23 Billion On Israel Every Year

Eric Striker • January 1, 2021

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Last September, Donald Trump accidentally upended an entire generation of myths invented by the left and right that purport to explain America's costly and unpopular military adventures in the Middle East: As Mondoweiss pointed out at the time, the explosive admission went completely unmentioned in the mainstream media, which traditionally hangs on every one of... Read More

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Establishment Journalists Are Piling on to Smear Robert Fisk Now He Cannot Answer Back

Jonathan Cook • November 30, 2020

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Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous... Read More

The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask Off the West’s War Machine

Jonathan Cook • November 27, 2020

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Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; it is a vehicle for facilitating and legitimating the concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. In... Read More

A Historic Presidency

Pat Buchanan • November 25, 2020

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In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist. This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed.... Read More

Hezbollah the Beautiful

Taxi • November 24, 2020

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A warrior’s soul sleeps in his fist. Wakes in his fist. Till his dying breath, will exist in his fist. No gun and no mortal danger can unfold this fist. A warrior will live and die with his fist clenched. This is not for love of violence nor for the thrills of war. Not because... Read More

Fisk Had Independence of Mind – Which Is Why He Angered Governments

Patrick Cockburn • November 14, 2020

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Robert Fisk and I often used to discuss the merits and demerits of responding in print to personal attacks on us filled with provable falsehoods. The temptation to refute such falsehood is hard to resist, but we recognised that therein lies a trap because even the most persuasive refutation of a gross lie necessitates repeating... Read More

More on the Strange Demise of The American Herald Tribune

Tony Hall • November 13, 2020

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In recent days many news sites, including Unz Review, have highlighted the role of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI and the CIA in removing web sites from the Internet. For five years I have worked as Editor in Chief of one of the targeted sites that was killed as a result of... Read More

The Strange Demise of The American Herald Tribune

Another independent news source is suppressed

Philip Giraldi • November 10, 2020

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Many observers would agree that the biggest loser in the recent U.S. presidential election was not Donald Trump, it was the media. The news that was presented to the American public amounted to a tsunami of negative reporting on Donald Trump buttressed by opinion polls that turned out to be poorly executed and wrong by... Read More

Fisk Was a ‘historian of the Present’ Who Illuminated the World

Patrick Cockburn • November 3, 2020

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I first met Robert in Belfast in 1972 at the height of the Troubles when he was the correspondent for The Times and I was writing a PhD on Irish history at Queen’s University. I was also taking my first tentative steps as a journalist, while he was swiftly establishing a reputation as a meticulous... Read More

'Iraq War Diaries' At Ten Years: Truth Is Treason

Ron Paul • October 26, 2020

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The purpose of journalism is to uncover truth – especially uncomfortable truth – and to publish it for the benefit of society. In a free society, we must be informed of the criminal acts carried out by governments in the name of the people. Throughout history, journalists have uncovered the many ways governments lie, cheat,... Read More

Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States?

Philip Giraldi • October 23, 2020

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Those who have been waiting for the elusive October Surprise that will upset the apple cart on election day are admittedly running out of time. The media’s unwillingness to even consider that the antics of Hunter Biden just might constitute an embarrassment of major proportions or even something worse has done much to kill that... Read More

Weapons of Mass Distraction

Eric Striker • October 22, 2020

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The most remarkable thing about the Iraq war debacle isn't the trillions of dollars wasted or hundreds of thousands of innocent people and US servicemen killed, but the fact that all of the journalists who promoted the lie to the American people were never held to account. During the 2000s, a bipartisan cabal of overwhelmingly... Read More

American Militarism Marches On

No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World

Philip Giraldi • October 22, 2020

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Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the cover it provides permits one to do all sorts of things under the radar that... Read More

Israeli Arms Trade, the Lobby and the Meaning of Chosenness

Gilad Atzmon • October 20, 2020

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"America is willing to sacrifice its young soldiers and national interests and even its economy for Israel," Gilad Atzmon, who was born in a Jewish family in Israel and grew up in Jerusalem al-Quds, tells the Tehran Times. * Atzmon, who now lives in Britain, also says, "Israeli pressure groups seem to believe that they... Read More

Colonel Alexander Vindman's Revenge

Another “expert” with an agenda surfaces

Philip Giraldi • October 13, 2020

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During last year’s impeachment process directed against President Donald Trump, Congress obtained testimony from a parade of witnesses to or participants in what was inevitably being referred to as UkraineGate. It centered around an investigation into whether Trump inappropriately sought a political quid pro quo from Ukrainian leaders in exchange for a military assistance package.... Read More

George Monbiot’s Excuses for Not Speaking Out Loudly in Defence of Assange Simply Won’t Wash

Jonathan Cook • October 6, 2020

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Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom. The... Read More

The Assange Extradition Case Is an Exceptional Attack on Press Freedom

Patrick Cockburn • October 3, 2020

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The silence of journalists in Britain and the US over the extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is making them complicit in the criminalisation of newsgathering by the American government. In an Old Bailey courtroom in London over the past four weeks, lawyers for the US government have sought the extradition of Assange to... Read More

Trump Confirms U.S. Is Israel’s “Protector”

“Check out any time you like, but you can never leave”

Philip Giraldi • September 29, 2020

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For many years the security framework in the Middle East has been described as a bilateral arrangement whereby Washington gained access to sufficient Saudi Arabian oil to keep the energy market stable while the United States provided an armed physical presence through its bases in the region and its ability to project power if anyone... Read More

The Guardian’s Deceit-riddled New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism

Jonathan Cook • September 27, 2020

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In my recent post on the current hearings at the Old Bailey over Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States, where he would almost certainly be locked away for the rest of his life for the crime of doing journalism, I made two main criticisms of the Guardian. A decade ago, remember, the newspaper worked... Read More

The World Has Gone Absolutely Insane!

The Saker • September 25, 2020

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We all know that we are living in crazy, and dangerous, times, yet I can’t help being awed at what the imperial propaganda machine (aka the legacy ziomedia) is trying to make us all swallow. The list of truly batshit crazy stuff we are being told to believe is now very long, and today I... Read More

British Ambassador Craig Murray Exposes the Corrupt and Censored Assange Extradition Hearing

Paul Craig Roberts • September 25, 2020

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Ambassador Murray is upfront: “I strongly expect the final decision was made in this case even before opening arguments were received.” Although the hearing is being conducted in a British court, the US government has controlled the hearing and has determined what evidence could be presented: “The plan of the US Government throughout has been... Read More

Are You Feeling Safer? ‘War of the Worlds’ Pits U.S. and Israel Against Everyone Else

Philip Giraldi • September 24, 2020

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The media being focused on an upcoming election, coronavirus, fires on the West Coast and burgeoning BLM and Antifa unrest, it is perhaps no surprise that some stories are not exactly making it through to the evening news. Last week an important vote in the United Nations General Assembly went heavily against the United States.... Read More

The False Flag Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, AKA ‘Russia’s Trump’

Max Parry • September 24, 2020

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On August 20th, Russian opposition figure and self-styled “anti-corruption” activist Alexei Navalny fell seriously ill while in mid-flight from Tomsk, Siberia to the Russian capital. The Moscow-bound plane was abruptly re-routed to make an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk where the anti-Kremlin politician was subsequently hospitalized for suspected poisoning and placed in... Read More

The Murder of the First Amendment

Paul Craig Roberts • September 24, 2020

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The illegal and unwarranted prosecution of Julian Assange by the US Government in a British court, if court it is and not a Star Chamber, is in fact the prosecution of the First Amendment. It will prevent journalists in the future from informing the public of criminal activity by government. This is already the case... Read More

The US Is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life. Why Is the Paper So Silent?

Jonathan Cook • September 22, 2020

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Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the United States. Assange faces 175 years in a US super-max prison on the basis of claims by Donald Trump’s administration... Read More

The War on Assange Is a War on Truth

Ron Paul • September 21, 2020

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It is dangerous to reveal the truth about the illegal and immoral things our government does with our money and in our name, and the war on journalists who dare reveal such truths is very much a bipartisan affair. Just ask Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who was relentlessly pursued first by the Obama Administration and... Read More

We Have Lost a Real Giant (Stephen F. Cohen Has Died)!

The Saker • September 19, 2020

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It is with immense sadness that I have to report that Stephen F. Cohen passed away yesterday in his home in Manhattan at the age of 81. There are a few media outlets who have already reported this. Most of them discuss Stephen F. Cohen’s political ideas and his books, which is normal since he... Read More

China and the Washington Oscars

Fred Reed • September 19, 2020

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As the presidential debates approach, and our grotesque candidates prepare to compete for Best Actor, with their supporting casts of pollsters, advance men, media shills, gestures coaches, focus groups, and allied technicians of mendacity, Americans of broad historical illiteracy, which is most of them, hear endlessly of the evils of China. Whether the evils exist... Read More

The Force Has Been Weakened

Paul Craig Roberts • September 19, 2020

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Stephen Cohen, the last objective American university expert on Russia, has died at age 81. Professor Cohen was non-ideological. His scholarship never fell into propaganda. I knew of Cohen all of my professional life. I relied on his scholarship for a chapter in my book, with Lawrence Stratton, The Tyranny of Good Intentions. Cohen’s objectivity... Read More

The Julian Assange Trial: the Mask of Empire Has Fallen

Pepe Escobar • September 18, 2020

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The concept of “History in the making” has been pushed to extremes when it comes to the extraordinary public service being performed by historian, former UK diplomat and human rights activist Craig Murray. Murray - literally, and on a global level – is now positioned as our man in the public gallery, as he painstakingly... Read More

A Truly Poisonous Foreign Policy: A Ridiculous Proposal from the New York Times

Philip Giraldi • September 13, 2020

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If one had been reading America’s leading newspapers and magazines over the past several weeks the series of featured stories suggesting that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is some kind of latter day Lucrezia Borgia would have been impossible to avoid. Putin, who was simultaneously being branded as some kind of totalitarian monster, apparently does not... Read More

Claremont McKenna College Professor Minxin Pei on the sources and implications of China’s kleptocracy, 2014 Hudson Institute Kleptocracy Initiative, Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

The Rising Cult of China Experts

Thorsten J. Pattberg • September 12, 2020

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BEIJING – A couple of years ago I met a German man at Harvard who boasted about his political stipend, his up-coming talk in New York City, and how he worked hard on the liberalization of Tibet and the breaking-up of China. There are no human rights in China, he explained to me. I was... Read More

31,000 Words Missing from The Atlantic and The New York Times Sunday Magazine

Ron Unz • September 9, 2020

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For many years I had predicted to my friends that the increasingly bizarre and incompetent behavior of America's ruling elites might soon result in a major "negative discontinuity" for our unfortunate country, the sort of massive event that future authors would use to divide one section of a thick history textbook from the next. I... Read More

Let’s Give Trump Some Credit—On Labor Day He Threw Down the Gauntlet to the Corrupt Military Brass

Paul Craig Roberts • September 8, 2020

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Trump said that the Pentagon brass don’t love him, “because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make eveything else stay happy.” President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the military/security complex for making the same point (see,... Read More

Julian Assange, Prometheus Bound

He is being punished not for stealing fire – but for exposing power under the light of truth and provoking the god of...

Pepe Escobar • September 8, 2020

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This is the tale of an Ancient Greek tragedy reenacted in AngloAmerica. Amid thundering silence and nearly universal indifference, chained, immobile, invisible, a squalid Prometheus was transferred from the gallows for a show trial in a faux Gothic court built on the site of a medieval prison. Kratos, impersonating Strength, and Bia, impersonating Violence, had... Read More

For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse. Now They’ve Paved His Path to a US Gulag

Jonathan Cook • September 2, 2020

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Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms. A journalist and publisher has been deprived of his liberty for 10 years. According to UN experts, he... Read More

Navalny Poison

Israel Shamir • September 1, 2020

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We do not yet know what has happened to Alexei Navalny; he is still in a medically induced coma in a German hospital. If it is poisoning, (and this is far from being certain) it is not clear yet what poison and under what circumstances he consumed it. Yet even so we are just as... Read More

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American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz

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9/11 Was an Israeli Job

How America was neoconned into World War IV

Laurent Guyénot

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.