- President Obama, in his visit to China, held a "town
meeting" with Chinese students in which he praised openness and lectured
them on the value of freedom of information, saying that he is a "supporter
of non-censorship" and that open access to information was a "source
of strength."
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- And yet America is hardly free of censorship. Heck, the
president himself has gone to court to prevent the release of photographs
of US troops torturing captives in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo.
Talk about censorship! But it goes way beyond just such crude, totalitarian
style control over information.
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- Let's just take the issue of depleted uranium weapons,
over 1000 tons of which have been expended in the US invasion of Iraq,
most of it in populated areas where millions remain exposed to the radioactive
dust of the burned material. There is almost no reporting on this topic
in the US media. The Pentagon has for years lied about and hidden the effects
of this deadly substance, used in shells, bombs and bullets because of
its unique ability to penetrate hard steel armor and concrete bunker walls.
It has refused to disclose where the weapons were fired, and has denied
US troops the tests that would show if they have been contaminated. It
has even resorted to having paid Pentagon hacks surreptitiously libel,
slander and otherwise undermine those military sources and journalists
who have tried to expose this scourge (this reporter has been the target
of such disinformation attacks)...
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- For the rest of this story, please go to: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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