Tag: RT America
On Contact: Afghanistan Papers with Spenser Rapone
Chris Hedges talks to Spenser Rapone, former combat veteran and US Army officer, about the Washington Post’s series the ‘Afghanistan Papers’. Drawing on thousands of pages of international government documents about the war in Afghanistan, the series exposes the lies, deceit, mismanagement, waste, corruption, fraud, and failed schemes that both Democratic and Republican administrations pursed in Afghanistan, the longest conflict in US history …
The Afghanistan papers, voter suppression in Wisconsin, digital reputation scrubbing
The Washington Post recently did something shocking… journalism. They received documents through FOIA requests that proved the government was actively lying about the Afghanistan war. These lies were an open secret and now they’re proven. Lee opens the show this week by reviewing the revelations from the FOIA releases. In ‘Taking The News From Behind’, …
Tracking our every move & merry, merry sanctions
The New York Times’ investigation into smartphone tracking includes the devices of 12 million people in the US. The South Bend Police Department is in hot water over a racist arrest video. The Kingdom of Wakanda is apparently a trade partner of the US. Then, RT correspondent Faran Fronczak brings us the lowdown on this past year’s US sanctions. …
