Full title: Democrats Launch Probe Into Hegseth Meddling With Military Newspaper | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth isn’t explaining why he installed an active-duty officer at the independent newspaper—and what happened to make the publisher quit.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Stars and Stripes has never really been independent. It’s the US propaganda factory for active troops. Their reporters lied to deflate US deaths and inflate Vietnamese deaths during the Vietnam War.

  • bedwyr@piefed.ca
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    5 days ago

    Fucking reality isn’t going to crash their war party again after the bad press about how they fucked up logistics and hung the aircraft carrier group crew out to dry.