@theguardian_us_news

This is the second hagiographic turd obit from The Guardian for Cheney that I've seen.

#GeorgeChidi and #MartinPengelly playing soggy-biscuit pennants?

@blabberlicious

Martin Pengelly showing us how to do a obit of a monster in a way that Trump will like.

Hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians killed, the stage set for ISIS, and Cheney's company made billions in profit from the slaughtering.

Cheney was to Adolf Eichmann as Charlie Kirk was to a two bit Nazi pamphleteer.

#MartinPengelly

“History is not what happened. It is what gets written down in an imperfect, often underhanded process dominated by self-interested political, economic and cultural authorities.” from Silent Cavalry by #HowellRaines via #MartinPengelly https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/27/howell-raines-silent-cavalry-civil-war

ht @jockr

cc @poetryforsupper

‘History is not what happened’: Howell Raines on the civil war and memory

In his new book, Silent Cavalry, the former New York Times editor tells of loyalties long suppressed in his native Alabama

The Guardian

Thousands of pages of intelligence related to Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election went missing in the final days of the last presidential administration: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/15/classified-russia-documents-missing-trump

#45 #russia #electioninterference #guardian #cnn #newyorktimes #nyt #thenewyorktimes #martinpengelly

Binder of classified material on Russia reportedly went missing in final Trump days

CNN and New York Times report disappearance of 2,700 pages of classified material that caused alarm in US intelligence circles

The Guardian