“The foulest damage to our political life comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from us, but from the little bits of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us. These are already pre-digested, and then are sicked up as little gobbits of authorised spew. The columns of defense correspondents in the establishment sheets serve as the spittoons.”
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E. P. Thompson
E.P. Thompson was a British historian renowned for his studies on the history of the working class and the English countryside. His groundbreaking work, 'The Making of the English Working Class', is a seminal text in the field of social history. more
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