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The foreign policy article the media did not want you to read
MATTHEW ALFORD presents here an article he wrote charting US and British military aggression across the globe – and tells the story of what happened to that article once it arrived in the inbox of editors at a respected liberal publication
WHEN Noam Chomsky observed that the United States had invaded South Vietnam he was upending the 1960s’ most pervasive case of groupthink — that the US was in Vietnam to defend the South from communists in the North.
However, the young professor was emphatically right and, by the end of the war in 1975, two-thirds of US bombs had fallen on the South.
Similarly, when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, Chomsky cut a lonely figure by observing that the attack had even happened.
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