By Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor The last time America faced a government shutdown (2013) William Blum, “the thinking man’s Chomsky,” pointed out that the CIA-influenced Washington Post used the occasion to lie about the 1975 CIA coup against Australia, saying the coup was just a “government shutdown”: Getting your history from the American daily press By William Blum (Dec. 2013) During the US federal government shutdown in October over a budgetary dispute, Washington Post columnist Max Fisher wondered if there had ever been anything like this in another country. He decided that “there actually is one foreign precedent: Australia did this once.…
FULL ARTICLEWaPo: CIA’s 1975 coup against Australia’s Whitlam was just a “government shutdown”
