In our final headline today, we report that the peace activist and author Fred Branfman has died at the age of 72. Branfman exposed the covert U.S. bombing of Laos. In the 1960s and 1970s, in what became the largest bombing campaign in history, the United States dropped more than two million tons of bombs on Laos. Branfman interviewed refugees and helped illuminate their plight for other journalists and activists, including world-renowned linguist Noam Chomsky, who traveled to Laos in 1970. Speaking at Harvard University last year, Chomsky praised Branfmans work. Hes the person who worked for years, with enormous courage and effort, to try to expose what were called the secret wars. The secret wars were perfectly public wars, which the media were keeping secret, government.
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:23:25 +0000
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