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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

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

Eric Striker • February 10, 2021

• 800 Words • 17 Comments • Reply

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

Russia’s President Putin Warns That Censorship Is Killing American Democracy

Is There Anything Left of Our Country?

Paul Craig Roberts • January 31, 2021

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Russia’s President Putin last week at the World Economic Forum called out America’s Big Tech Monopolies for preventing free speech and attempting “to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace legitimate democratic institutions, restrict one’s natural right to decide for themselves what stance to express freely. We’ve all seen this just now in the US, and... 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

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

Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe

Jonathan Cook • December 11, 2020

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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents a kind of cultural, political and intellectual reign of terror in Germany since the parliament passed a resolution last year equating support for... 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

European Union Moves to Outlaw Encrypted Apps

Eric Striker • November 9, 2020

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The European Union is moving to ban end-to-end encrypted communication. An EU council of ministers resolution spearheaded by French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the conservative Austrian People's Party would mandate that apps such as Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp provide European intelligence services with backdoor access in order to allow... 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 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

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

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

Facebook Hires an Israeli Censor

Another attack on free speech by the Jewish State

Philip Giraldi • September 1, 2020

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Israel’s defenders both in the political realm and in the media have long used every weapon available to stifle any criticism of Israeli racism and its oppression of the Palestinians. In particular, the use of “anti-Semitism” as something like a tactical discussion stopper in deliberations about the Middle East has long been a staple of... Read More

Anti-Zionist Writer Alain Soral Jailed, Jewish Lobby Overjoyed

Guillaume Durocher • July 30, 2020

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The French anti-Zionist and civic nationalist writer Alain Soral has finally been arrested. This has been a long time coming. Apparently he was simply taken in the street by three police officers in plainclothes. According to his website Égalité & Réconciliation: A sampling of Jewish reactions: The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (effectively the... Read More

Israeli Intelligence Uses Phone App to Troll and Mass Report People Off the Internet

Eric Striker • July 25, 2020

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Much has been said in the Jewish media about mysterious Russian trolls influencing elections, but real cyber disinformation campaigns are being organized by the Israeli government out in the open. A mobile phone app called Act.IL available for download in the Apple store recruits every day American Jews and organizes them in troll operations on... Read More

What Google and Facebook Are Hiding

The American Deep State Strikes Back

Ron Unz • May 24, 2020

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After several months of record-breaking traffic our alternative media webzine suffered a sharp blow when it was suddenly purged by Facebook at the end of April. Not only was our rudimentary Facebook page eliminated, but all subsequent attempts by readers to post our articles to the world's largest social network produced an error message describing... Read More

Our Facebook Ban: the Fatal 0.2%

Ron Unz • May 11, 2020

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Just over a month ago I was riding high and celebrating the steady upward progress of our alternative media webzine. I proudly noted that our traffic had now far surpassed that of the venerable New Republic, a century old publication that had spent decades as America's most influential opinion magazine. But pride goeth before the... Read More

An In-Depth Look Behind the Scenes of Southfront Censorship

Southfront Editor • May 6, 2020

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The situation surrounding the censorship of Southfront on Facebook has turned into a display of the stereotypical Big-tech super villain. Facebook has published a report justifying its actions, which is an egregious, textbook example of fake news. The report contains only disjointed accusations under the cover of meaningless words, and without a single example being... Read More

A Change of Venue

Larry Romanoff • May 5, 2020

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I wrote an article on March 19, 2020, titled, "All Truth Has Three Stages", listing them thus: First, it is ignored. Second, it is widely ridiculed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident. In this, I omitted something of importance. The second step actually has two stages: the truth is widely ridiculed but, if ridicule proves... Read More

Who or What Started the Wuhan Coronavirus Epidemic?

On the Condemnation of "Conspiracy Theories" as a Device for Protecting Officialdom’s Lies, Disinformation, and Obfuscation

Tony Hall • March 2, 2020

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The Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic of 2019-20 is moving many markers where life merges into death, where truth merges into lies. At age 34, Dr. Li Wenliang drew attention in Wuhan to these moving markers. The disease Dr. Li sought to warn against ended up taking his life as the epidemic gained fatal traction. Before going... Read More

Why Big Brother Fears Qassem Soleimani

He’s the Che Guevara of the 21st Century

Kevin Barrett • January 27, 2020

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He was the 21st century’s most accomplished military leader—and a deeply spiritual man. Before they killed him, they didn’t even want you to know his name. After martyring him, they realized their mistake—and pulled out all the stops to stop you from finding out that he was a great man, a modern-day Che Guevara. An... Read More

Italy: Facebook Forced to Pay Restitution to Italian Nationalists It Deplatformed

Eric Striker • January 7, 2020

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In September of last year, the Zionist social media page Facebook engaged in electoral meddling by arbitrarily banning the large accounts of radical nationalist parties Forza Nuova and CasaPound. In a rare victory for free speech in the West, Judge Stefania Garrisi found that Facebook had violated the rights of CasaPound in civil court in... Read More

Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent

Mnar Muhawesh • November 14, 2019

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Mnar Muhawesh speaks with journalist Daniel McAdams about being permanently banned from Twitter, social media censorship and more.

(L) Ghislaine Maxwell © AFP / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Laura Cavanaugh; (R) Robert Maxwell © AFP / MICHEL CLEMENT. Credit: RT.

Epstein: the Maxwell Connection

George Galloway • August 21, 2019

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As Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell appears to have fallen off the face of the Earth, it’s little remembered in the media how I fought a long war against her father Robert and the part I played in his downfall. It would be scarcely worth recalling at this distance if it did not shed light,... Read More

Laetitia Avia: The new face of the libertidical “French” “Republic”

Dark Days in France

Besieged Macron Regime Passing Legislation to Ban Free Speech on Social Media

Guillaume Durocher • July 7, 2019

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Despite a moderate economic recovery, President Emmanuel Macron’s government continues to flounder in unpopularity. A recent poll found only 1 in 4 people had a positive view of the French president and his government, while 66% had an outright negative view. Every regime under siege has a choice: improve its performance and unify the country... Read More

"Protecting the Jews"

Israel Shamir • June 25, 2019

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Justify your actions by the need to protect the weak and vulnerable. This is the first rule of political rhetoric. If you bomb Syria, do not admit you did it to install your puppet regime or to lay a pipeline. Say you did it to save the Aleppo kids gassed by Assad the Butcher. If... Read More

The China Hoax

Is China Being Framed?

Godfree Roberts • April 17, 2019

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I was researching Chinese censorship when–irony of ironies–I fell afoul of American censorship, providing an opportunity to update you on the state of the art under both regimes, starting at home, with the recent attempt to frame the President for crimes he did not commit. Like many attempts to frame people, events and nations–Vietnam, Iraq,... Read More

After 7 Years of Deceptions About Assange, the US Readies for Its First Media Rendition

Jonathan Cook • April 12, 2019

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For seven years, from the moment Julian Assange first sought refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, they have been telling us we were wrong, that we were paranoid conspiracy theorists. We were told there was no real threat of Assange’s extradition to the United States, that it was all in our fevered imaginations. For... Read More

The Language Police: Suella Braverman M.P. Defies Cultural Marxists’ Ban of “Cultural Marxism” Concept

Lance Welton • March 30, 2019

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Social Justice Warriors are obsessed with words. They instinctively understand that words aren’t just a means to communicate: they are thinking-tools—a way of expressing your individual and group identity. Political Correctness, in policing language, attempts to police people. It reduces their individuality, forces them to outwardly conform to the Multicultural Cult through speech, breaks their... Read More

Alan “Israel Did 9/11” Sabrosky: Most Censored Man in America

Kevin Barrett • March 24, 2019

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Who’s afraid of Alan Sabrosky? Whoever they are, they have the ability to monitor and censor YouTube live-streams in real time. And they apparently don’t want you to know what Sabrosky thinks about the Holocaust. That’s the obvious takeaway from the highly unusual example of YouTube censorship that disrupted the March 22 live broadcast of... Read More

Truth-Tellers Are Being Censored

Paul Craig Roberts • March 4, 2019

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Dear Readers: I have had to take measures to strengthen the website from outside interference. The entirety of the interview archive disappeared off the website. Readers complained that they had ceased receiving the newsletter notices of new postings to the website. Soren Korsgaard helped to restore the interview archive, and has moved the website’s email... Read More

Alain Finkielkraut being confronted by yellow-vest protesters.

In Face of Yellow-Vest Critics, France Moves to Criminalize Anti-Zionism

Guillaume Durocher • February 24, 2019

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The French Jewish intellectual Alain Finkielkraut was recently profusely insulted by yellow-vests on the margins of a demonstration. This attack has been widely-portrayed as anti-Semitic, even though the yellow-vests in question explicitly attacked Finkielkraut as a Zionist. As Damien Viguier, the anti-Zionist intellectual Alain Soral’s lawyer, observed: It is true that “Zionist” is often used... Read More

Why the War on Conspiracy Theories Is Bad Public Policy

Kevin Barrett • February 1, 2019

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On January 25 2018 YouTube unleashed the latest salvo in the war on conspiracy theories, saying “we’ll begin reducing recommendations of borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways—such as videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic... Read More

The US War on Freedom of the Press

#FreeMarziehHashemi

David William Pear • January 21, 2019

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The FBI abduction of Marzieh Hashemi is another milestone in the US turn to fascism. Marzieh Hashemi is a well-recognized and highly respected journalist and TV anchorwoman for Press TV, which is affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran. She was abducted on January 15th as she was boarding a flight to Denver from St.... Read More

Banned by Facebook for Telling the Truth

Israel Shamir • January 19, 2019

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Harvard scientists insisted last year we had been visited by guests from a galaxy far, far away. Well, almost. The suspected spacecraft Oumuamua first drew close to the earth, but then it accelerated, sped by our planet and disappeared somewhere into Deep Space. What went wrong? Why did the little green men of Vega, the... Read More

Fiasco In Islington

The Banning Campaign Against Gilad Atzmon

Richard Hugus • December 26, 2018

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Jazz saxophonist and writer Gilad Atzmon was recently banned from playing at an assembly hall in Islington, a borough of London, by order of the Islington Town Council. This came about as a result of an e-mail from one person — Martin Rankoff — saying nothing more than that if Atzmon was going to be... Read More

In the Western World Truth Is on Its Deathbed

Paul Craig Roberts • December 14, 2018

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Please keep in mind that nowhere in the Western world does it pay to tell the truth. Whistleblowers, who are protected by federal law, are nevertheless framed and imprisoned for telling the truth while nothing is done about the government officials who commit the revealed crimes. With few exceptions such as Tucker Carlson, no journalist... Read More

Saker 2018 "Man" of the Year: the American "Dissidents"

The Saker • December 13, 2018

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Once a year I like to pretend like my blog is some kind of "respectable" mainstream outlet and I engage in the (admittedly totally silly!) exercise of nominating some "man" (sorry, "person" is unbearably politically correct and once you go down that route you end up calling mentally deranged freaks "ze/zir/zee/etc" and the like). Hey,... Read More

Social Credit, Datong Dreams

Godfree Roberts • December 7, 2018

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For centuries Western monarchs derived legitimacy from a God Who lent authority to the laws they promulgated. The simultaneous demise of God and the monarchic principle in 1918 left the law legitimized by force alone and, a century later, our distrust[1] suggests that it has failed to converge with the ethical. Things were little better... Read More

The US Military’s Vision for State Censorship

Andre Damon • October 5, 2018

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In March, the United States Special Operations Command, the section of the Defense Department supervising the US Special Forces, held a conference on the theme of “Sovereignty in the Information Age.” The conference brought together Special Forces officers with domestic police forces, including officials from the New York Police Department, and representatives from technology companies... Read More

VIPS Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange

William Binney • August 6, 2018

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Memorandum for: The US Embassies of Ecuador and the United Kingdom, and the U.S. State Department From: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Subject: Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange For six years, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange has been effectively imprisoned without charges at Ecuador’s London embassy. In that time, two international courts and dozens of respected... Read More

Nick Turse: A Grim Inheritance

Tom Engelhardt • August 5, 2018

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It looks like TomDispatch may have a few less readers from now on. Perhaps it will surprise you, but judging by the mail I get, some members of the U.S. military do read TomDispatch -- partially to check out the range of military and ex-military critics of America’s wars that this site publishes. Or rather... Read More

Yet Another Multi-Decade Sex Grooming Scandal In U.K.—But Peaceful Identitarians Sellner, Pettibone Barred Anyway

James Kirkpatrick • March 11, 2018

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How could the systematic rape, beating and murder of hundreds of its young women not bring any country’s government crashing down, with hearings, trials, and executions? But in Britain the exposure of the “worst ever” sex grooming scandal is barely generating any notice [Britain’s ‘worst ever’ child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped,... Read More

How Israel and Its Partisans Work to Censor the Internet

Alison Weir • March 8, 2018

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Recently, YouTube suddenly shut down the If Americans Knew YouTube channel. This contained 70 videos providing facts-based information about Israel-Palestine. People going to the channel saw a message telling them that the site had been terminated for “violating YouTube guidelines”—implying to the public that we were guilty of wrongdoing. And ensuring they didn’t learn about... Read More

Kafka 2.0: How Youtube’s Political Censorship Is Exercised

Five years of archives of resistance to Zionism and imperialism deleted by Google

Sayed Hasan • January 13, 2018

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“Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” Thus begins The Trial, Franz Kafka’s 1925 work, in which Joseph K., ordinary bank employee, is arrested at his home by mysterious agents and notified of legal proceedings against him. He is not informed of... Read More

The Acceleration of Censorship in America

Joe Lauria • December 11, 2017

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At the end of October, I wrote an article for Consortium News about the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign paying for unvetted opposition research that became the basis for much of the disputed story about Russia allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The piece showed that the Democrats’ two paid-for sources that... Read More

Join with Me and Let’s Change the World

Harvard Researchers Conclude That Margaret Mead Was Right: It Only Takes A Few To Change The World

Paul Craig Roberts • December 9, 2017

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According to the latest fake news from the US government and presstitute media, the US unemployment rate is the lowest in 17 years, but there is no growth in wages. What explains full, or overfull, employment without wage pressure? Obviously, the full employment figure is the orchestrated product of not counting the millions of discouraged... Read More

Washington Stomps on Civil Liberty

Paul Craig Roberts • November 3, 2017

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The insouciant American electorate is so inattentive that it routinely elects enemies of civil liberty to represent the public in Congress. Last Wednesday Rep. Adam Schiff (D, CA), Rep. Trey Gowdy ( R, SC), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D, CA), Sen. Mark Warner (D, VA), Rep. Jackie Speier (D, CA), Sen. Tom Cotton (R , AR... Read More

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John McCain and the POW Cover-Up

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