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The Lies of American Exceptionalism
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
14 Aug 2018
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Corporate media claim the economy is “booming” even though “we still don’t have as many jobs as existed” before the 2008 crash, said BAR contributor Danny Haiphong, one of the authors of the upcoming book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Fake News of Wall Street, White Supremacy and the U.S War Machine. Haiphong’s co-author is Roberto Sirvent, editor of the Black Agenda Report Book Forum.

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