The Revision of History

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Charlie Wilson’s War: A Feel-Good Distortion of Reality

by Andres Kargar / January 7th, 2008
In his song “Basta Ya” (It’s enough), Atahualpa Yupanqui, the world famous Argentine songwriter sings: ”Who has won the war in the mountains of Vietnam? The Guerrilla in his land and Yankees in cinema.” Yupanqui’s song reflects the reality of the Hollywood movie Charlie Wilson’s War which is a feel-good production aiming to whitewash the realities of the past and the present. (Full article …)

 

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Famous Inventions - A - History of Famous Inventions The first mass-produced and widely used metal foil was made from tin. Tin foil was replaced by aluminum foil in 1910. Charles Martin Hall discovered the ...
http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/FamousInvention.htm

But the conspiracy detractor crowd still insist on calling it tinfoil. It does give you some perspective on the age of the dis though, it means the detractors cannot keep up with the times, they're a hopelessly out of date bunch.

 

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US War Crimes in Indochina in the 1960s: Truth as Casualty
A Response to Carol Brightman and Carl Ogelsby on the Sixties

By Ralph Schoenman

Global Research, January 29, 2008






In an article entitled "Carol_Brightman_on_the_1960s" (Truth-Dig, January 3, 2008), Ms. Brightman reviews three books, including Ravens In the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960's Anti-War Movement by Carl Oglesby.

(See http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/print/20080103_carol_brightman_on_the_1960s)

The article is replete with falsehoods and disinformation concerning the work of the International Tribunal on U.S. War Crimes in Indochina, of which I was Secretary-General, and of my role within it.
Ms. Brightman's errors, large and small, embellish the pattern of distortion in Mr. Oglesby's book. The most egregious of these fabrications concerns the views of Jean-Paul Sartre, Executive President of the Tribunal and of other Tribunal members on the question of genocide.
Ms. Brightman's claims regarding her own role are instructive, not merely for their petty misrepresentations but for what she conceals. She writes, "Early in 1967, I had gone on the second of the tribunal's two fact-finding teams to North Vietnam, the only American and only woman."
In fact, not two but six investigative teams were sent to Cambodia and North Vietnam, with supplemental investigative work carried out in the liberated zones of South Vietnam. Ms. Brightman was not the sole American on the second team, but one of three.
She omits to mention that members of these teams had been briefed about the sensitivity of our work, notably in countries under agonizingly massive and continuous attack by overwhelming U.S. air and ground assault.