Truth Dig has the article Banishing Truth. When Pam Wall shared this story on Facebook, she used the following excerpt from the article:

The later part of Hersh’s career is the most distressing. He was writing for The New Yorker when Barack Obama was elected president. David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, socialized with Obama and was apparently wary of offending the president. When Hersh exposed the fictitious narrative spun out by the Obama administration about the killing of Bin Laden, the magazine killed the story, running instead a report about the raid, provided by the administration, from the point of view of one of the SEALs who was on the mission. Hersh resigned. He published the account of the raid in the London Review of Books, the beginning of his current exile to foreign publications. When we most urgently need Hersh and good investigative reporters like him, they have largely disappeared. A democracy, at best, tolerates them. A failed democracy, like ours, banishes them, and when it does, it kills its press.”

This is why I feel justified in always referring to the newspaper as “The dreaded New York Times”. Much as I dislike Trump, I realize he did manage to echo some of the real disappointments of the USA people when he campaigned. One of those disappointments was in fake news, although he doesn’t always understand what news is the fake news.

The Real News Network has the interview Cold War Radar System a Trillion Dollar Fraud – Lester Ernest on RAI (1/4).

Profit and deception drove cold-war militarization, says Lester Ernest, founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford; Ernest says the anti-nuclear bomber SAGE radar system never worked and carried on for 25 years – Lester Ernest on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay

Having grown up in Massachusetts and having gone to MIT in the early 1960s, all these names and places are very familiar to me. I never worked on any of the projects or companies mentioned in the interview.

December 26, 2018

The second part is called Military-Industrial-Congressional Frauds – Lester Earnest on RAI (2/4).

Corporations bribed politicians—it’s legal, it’s called campaign contributions—and they funded projects the Defense Department contracted out, giving the crooks a lot of money; that’s still going strong today – says Lester Earnest, founder of the AI Lab at Stanford

December 28, 2018

The third part is called DOD Criterion for Success: Spend all Your Money by Year End – Lester Earnest on RAI (3/4).

After working on the MIT SAGE radar system and at the Joint Chiefs, Earnest concluded “it’s basically a money making system, that’s what it’s about and has nothing to do with real defense” – Lester Earnest on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay

January 4, 2019

The fourth part is called Billionaires Shouldn’t Control Artificial Intelligence – Lester Earnest on RAI (4/5).

“Patents block progress” – says Lester Earnest, founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford, on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay

This may be the most valuable part of the series.

January 4, 2019

The fifth part is called AI Should Improve Quality of Life, Not Make Capitalists Rich – Lester Earnest on RAI (5/5)

Artificial Intelligence can make the world better or be a tool for war – says Lester Earnest, founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford, on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay