Friday, 12 March 2021, 4:46 pm Journalists should be exposing inconvenient truths about powerful people in their own nation and its allies. Instead the people we call "journalists" criticize enemy nations, smear political dissidents, demand increasing amounts of censorship, and advance narratives that are convenient for the powerful. The "war on terror" is a false pretext for interventionism in the Middle East and the "war on drugs" is a false pretext for interventionism in Latin America. Lula being free and eligible to run again in Brazil is a very big deal with huge implications for US imperialism. This isn't like some fake leftist getting into the Democratic Party or whatever, this