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We Know What Space Wars Will Look Like
June 1, 2021
The Newsletter
Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics.
OPINION “The United States must now be prepared for conflict to extend to, or even to originate in or from, space.”
Location: Hearing will be held via Cisco WebEx
Subcommittee: International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact
Joint hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations and Global Corporate Social Impact and the Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Witnesses
King’s True Story
Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon. Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For more than fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth. And few people, in a massive act of self-deception, have chosen to question the official explanation, choosing, rather, to embrace a mythic fabrication intended to sugarcoat the bitter fruit that has resulted from the murder of one man capable of leading a mass movement for transformative change in the United States. Today we are eating the fruit of our denial as racial discrimination, poverty, and police violence garner the headlines.