In this new essay, John Pilger recalls the "electric" opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is "a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda" as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
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In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists,