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There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
Americans who stand for peace with Russia – and for peace with the world at large – have lost a towering intellectual leader and a defender of their cause, writes Gilbert Doctorow.