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Isidor Feinstein Stone (1907-1998)—best remembered for his newsletter I. F. Stone’s Weekly newsletter ranked 16^th among the top hundred works of journalism in the United States, in the 20^th Century, and second place among print journalism publications..

Special Report from Sister Ciara

My Dearest Friends:

For just about everyone I’ve ever known, there is a point in their past they can look back on and say “That’s when my life changed forever”, and my own moment such as this happened one summer afternoon in 1955 while attending a lecture at the University of Paris—which many of you are more familiar with its name Sorbonne, and where that day the guest lecturer was an American named Isidor Feinstein Stone—known now to history as I.F. Stone—who read excerpts from his book The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–51, engaged afterwards in an over 3-hour question and answer session with all of us students, and began his lecture with thundering words: “Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed”.

To say that I.F. Stone was one of the most reviled, hated, loved, admired and controversial journalists of the 20^th Century, doesn’t even give descriptive words such as these the justice they deserve in this sentence—because when all is said about him there is to say, the indisputable fact remains that he was the greatest journalist in modern times, and his self-published newsletter I. F. Stone’s Weekly the greatest news publication ever printed in history.

From exposing the truth that the Korean War was deliberately caused by the United States after they provoked South Korea to launch guerilla attacks on North Korea because the Americans wanted a cold war conflict with the Soviet Union, to his being the only American journalist to challenge President Lyndon B. Johnson’s account of the Gulf of Tonkin incident that started the Vietnam War, what’s most important for you to know about I.F. Stone and the never-ending historic and ground breaking news stories he wrote, is that he did them all while being cut off from the rest of the mainstream news world, as well as him being denied all access to government officials—which is why he was forced to start his own newsletter, and he wrote using two things, and two things only—his genius level ability to forensically pore over and read everything from government documents to the most minor news story, and then connect the dots of what he read with history—not just any history, but the history of FAMILIES—the most powerful and consequential to human history groups of people whom I.F. Stone said when known about explain everything that happens in our world—and should always be believed, as opposed to governments that are not families, and are all liars…