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US Lies About Political Prisoners – and Almost Everything Else
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
18 Aug 2020

journalist · US Lies About Political Prisoners – and Almost Everything Else

The official US position, that this country holds no political prisoners, is part of “the lie and the founding mythology of US ‘democracy,’” said Nyle Fort, a Princeton University doctoral candidate, activist and minister. “But those of us who live on the underside of that history know better,” said Fort.

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