Community | March 20, 2011 | 4 comments

#1 Whistleblower | Adbusters

source: http://67.192.229.58/magazine/94/what-if-wed-had-wikileaks.html

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How might history have changed had Wikileaks been around?
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4 comments // #1 Whistleblower | Adbusters

  • ampersand
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      ampersand  

    • I was in Chile as a very, very young man when Allende was in just in power.
      As I've said before, it was my first introduction to how differently things are presented to the US public vs the reality.
      Addicted to reading, and having been in Santiago for a while, I picked up a "Time" magazine in English, to catch up on the news.
      I was astonished to find a description of Santiago and the "mood" of the country of Chile in the "Time" article completely different than what any observer could see in Santiago.
      It was a couple decades before I read that Time's editors (owner and chief editor, Henry Luce, was an arch "anti-communist" and a CIA buff.) had agreed to run those bits of "agit-prop" at Henry Kissinger's request.
      It's a long standing tradition in US news, apparently.
      It's also one we could really do without.

    • 1 year ago
  • oldpol2
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  

    • Think how SAD the whole world would be if Uncle Ronnie Raygun and Auntie George H.W. along with all their criminals had been in jail instead of creating the "New Morning" we're paying for now.

    • 1 year ago
  • judithann
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      judithann  

    • the first events that come to my mind are Kennedy shooting and Vietnam "war",
      how just those two events alone might have changed with "Wikileaks" had been there. I will never forget the day Kennedy was shot, I was in high school and between classes when the news hit. The Vietnam war my not have even happened, really! think about it.

    • 1 year ago
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