Winston Churchill once noted that “in wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” But the UK’s WWII PM always played it straight with the British people regarding the war’s risks, costs and the country’s overall goal. In Racket, Matt Taibbi deconstructs the web of lies Biden Administration officials told the American people, other countries and themselves about every aspect of the West’s escalating involvement in Ukraine – most of all, the Big Lie denying the risk of nuclear doomsday.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
