🚨CNN Drops EXPLOSIVE BOMBSHELL On Trump And His Son

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUQFFwcIEMY

The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Leaks (Reveal pocast)

In 1971, a 22-year-old named Robert Rosenthal got a call from his boss at The New York Times. He was told to go to Room 1111 of the Hilton Hotel, bring enough clothes for at least a month and not tell anyone.

Rosenthal was part of a team called in to publish the Pentagon Papers, an explosive history of the United States’ political and military actions in Vietnam that shattered the government’s narratives about the war. Former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked the secret papers to the press. In this episode, we hear the experiences of both Ellsberg and Rosenthal.

When Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, he was turning his back on a long career close to power, immersed in government secrets. His work as a nuclear war strategist made him fear that a small conflict could erupt into a nuclear holocaust.

When the Vietnam War flared, Ellsberg worried his worst fears would be realized. He wonders if leaking the top-secret report he’s read could help stop the war. Soon, he was secretly copying the 7,000-page history that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers and showing them to anyone he thought could help.

President Richard Nixon wakes up to the biggest leak in American history. But his first reaction is a little surprising: The Pentagon Papers might make trouble for the Democrats – this instinct starts a chain reaction that helps bring down his presidency.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-2uzrp-e81a62c

'America told us to get over it': black Vietnam veterans hail Spike Lee film that finally tells their story

Da 5 Bloods highlights the experience of veterans who fought for their country only to be treated as second-class citizens
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/22/spike-lee-vietnam-da-5-bloods-black-veterans

The greatest Martin Luther King speech you’ve never heard

Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People's Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, which he delivered at New York City's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well as his last speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop," that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated.
https://youtu.be/cfJRpeCDoKo

Jake Tapper knocks Trump's claim he'd confront school shooter: Same man 'repeatedly sought deferments to avoid' Vietnam -- Raw Story

CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday hit Donald Trump for claiming he would have run into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, unarmed, to intervene during the deadly mass shooting earlier this month, noting the president received multiple deferments to avoid serving in the Vietnam War. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/jake-tapper-knocks-trumps-claim-hed-confront-school-shooter-man-repeatedly-sought-deferments-avoid-vietnam/

Here are 6 awful details being omitted from Billy Graham’s fawning obituaries -- Raw Story

Billy Graham, the firebrand evangelical who helped usher in the rise of the evangelical right, is dead at 99. Graham is getting tributes from all corners right now. And he deserves praise for supporting the civil rights movement, supporting Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment and embracing Muhammad Ali during the fall-out of his conversion to Islam. All those good deeds will be covered in great detail today....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/6-awful-details-omitted-billy-grahams-fawning-obituaries/

'Chicken Hawk Piece of Trash': Vets Unload on Trump for Attacking Dem Senator's Military Record | Alternet

President Donald Trump on Monday once again attacked Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) for misrepresenting his military record.

“Never in U.S. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like Senator Richard Blumenthal,” wrote Trump on Twitter, referring to Blumenthal’s admission that he never actually served in Vietnam in the 1970s, despite statements he made suggesting otherwise. “He told stories about his Vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. He cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child.”

While Blumenthal has publicly apologized for claiming that he served in Vietnam, he did actually enlist in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, where he served from 1970 to 1976. Trump, meanwhile, was granted four deferments on the draft....
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/chicken-hawk-piece-trash-vets-unload-trump-attacking-dem-senators-military-record

Obama Lauds Vietnam, Nudges It To Improve Its Human Rights Record

In the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi on Tuesday, President Obama celebrated the dynamism of the fast-growing country. He also met with dissidents and encouraged the government to improve its human rights record....
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/479270444/obama-lauds-vietnam-nudges-it-to-improve-its-human-rights-record?sc=tw

Casting Aside Cold War Ghosts, Obama Reaches Out To Old Rivals

When President Obama lifted the ban on U.S. weapons sales to Vietnam, he invoked one of his favorite themes — relics of the Cold War.

"This change will ensure that Vietnam has access to the equipment it needs to defend itself and removes a lingering vestige of the Cold War," Obama said Monday in the capital, Hanoi. He sounded a lot like the president who made a groundbreaking visit to Cuba in March:....
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/24/479167572/casting-aside-cold-war-ghosts-obama-reaches-out-to-old-rivals?sc=tw