WT Whitney

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a retired pediatrician and political journalist living in Maine.

Facebook is Filtering Out News That Doesn’t Bolster US Foreign Policy

Facebook has shed any pretense of neutrality in handling political information concerning the foreign affairs of the U.S. government.

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Facebook has its admirers. Shareholders are enamored of its profits – $15.9 billion in 2017 – and hordes of the world’s population – 1.47 billion people – look at Facebook every day.  Individually on their Facebook pages they are communicating with, on average, 338 so-called “friends.” Editors, the media, and political commentators are similarly

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Oil-rich Neuquén, Argentina is the Site of a New U.S. Military Base

The U.S. public is generally unaware of U.S. military interventions in parts of the world, particularly in Latin America.

Demonstrators burn a U.S. flag in front of the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP/Natacha Pisarenko)

Obsessive media focus on President Trump’s personal indecencies undoubtedly contributes to important news stories not seeing the light of day. In that regard, it’s no wonder the U.S. public is generally unaware of U.S. military interventions in parts of the world, particularly in Latin America. That way, U.S. imperial excess gets a

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America’s Role in Removing a Revolutionary and Restoring War to Colombia

Colombia has been a U.S. ally in the latter’s’ efforts to control the region and is a venue for exploitation by U.S. corporations and financiers.

Supporters of Seuxis Paucias Hernandez-Solarte, better known by his alias Jesus Santrich, a leader of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), hold posters asking for his freedom during a demonstration marking May Day to honor workers, in Bogota, Colombia, May, 1, 2018. (AP/Fernando Vergara)

Former FARC leader Jesús Santrich has been conducting a hunger strike since his arrest on April 9. His looming death ought to be big news in the United States whose government has responsibility for his fate. The U.S. State Department and DEA personnel did the groundwork in Colombia in manufacturing a case against him. The Southern New York

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Defense Giant General Dynamics Holds Maine Town Hostage Over Tax Exemptions

The nations fourth largest defense contractor has already received a stunning $194 million in corporate welfare from the small Maine town of Bath, but they want more.

The future USS Michael Monsoor docks in Portland, Maine, after performing offshore sea trials, Jan. 17, 2018. The Bath Iron Works (owned by General Dynamics) built ship is the second in the stealthy Zumwalt class of destroyers. (AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine legislators have a hot potato in their hands. But they don’t seem to be feeling any pain.  On March 6, their Taxation Committee, controlled by the Democratic Party, voted 8-2 to send LD 1781 to the floor with an “ought-to-pass” recommendation. That bill calls for Maine to provide Bath Iron Works (BIW) with a $60 million tax credit extending

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