Ed Driscoll: Gosh, how did that media blackout happen in America, land of the First Amendment, and why the subsequent near-blackout of that decade in American pop culture and academia?
Ed Driscoll: Gosh, how did that media blackout happen in America, land of the First Amendment, and why the subsequent near-blackout of that decade in American pop culture and academia?
More history I didn’t know. Thanks, Teacher’s Union!
Well the story was read many years ago was that it was called the Spanish flu because Spain was neutral during the Great War.
I don’t understand the article. The flu was widely reported in newspapers and was a serious public concern at the time.
Isn’t that the truth. My kids had no idea that JFK got America embedded in the VietNam war, or that LBJ escalated the war. They never heard of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution … nor did they learn from their TOP public school teachers at one of the very TOP performing school districts in America … that Nixon ENDED the VietNam war. They only learned how BAD the war was, that it was caused by racism, and that the American News media “ended” the war by broadcasting the horrors (nightly). They learned that hippies, and Rock+Roll ended the war.
I’d say that America could do much better without DC.
Look what they did to Admiral Kimmel. Hopefully, Trump will restore his rank and good name.
I’m waiting for Trump and congress to vote Medals of Honor for the CIA contractors in Benghazi.
US ‘hushed up’ Soviet guilt over Katyn
New evidence appears to back the idea that the Roosevelt administration helped cover up Soviet guilt for the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish soldiers.
Historians said documents, released by the US National Archives, supported the suspicion that the US did not want to anger its wartime ally, Joseph Stalin.
They showed the US was sent coded messages suggesting the Soviets, not the Nazis, carried out the massacre.
More than 22,000 Poles were killed by the Soviets on Stalin’s orders.
Soviet Russia only admitted to the atrocity in 1990 after blaming the Nazis for five decades.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19552745
I went one link further to the Christian Science Monitor article on the depredations of Woodrow Wilson, and found this gem:
“Individualism means tyranny.”
This might be the stupidest thing anyone has said in the history of our planet. The “progressive” loony in question who uttered the statement was one Walter Rauschenbusch, not Woodrow Wilson.