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William Arkin’s Goodbye Letter to NBC: Journalist Slams Deep State War Media

“And yet I’m alarmed at how quick NBC is to mechanically argue the contrary [to Trump’s position], to be in favor of policies that just spell more conflict and more war. Really? We shouldn’t get out Syria? We shouldn’t go for the bold move of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula? Even on Russia, though we should be concerned about the brittleness of our democracy that it is so vulnerable to manipulation, do we really yearn for the Cold War? And don’t even get me started with the FBI: What? We now lionize this historically destructive institution?” […]