All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Let's be clear here. I.F. Stone was far to the left of the political spectrum. He joined the Socialist Party of America, a political decision influenced by his reading of the works of Karl Marx, among others. During the 1930s, Stone was an active member of the communist-dominated Popular Front. He decided he would do "no more fellow traveling" for the U.S.S.R. after Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. The very raison d'être of Socialism is increasing government power over the economy, to the point where government has total control over people's lives. It's such fascinating irony that Stone advocated giving more and more power to government, while going out of his way to prove how dishonest it is (in other news, water is wet). It's also ironic that today's leftists proclaim the wisdom and honesty of government-paid scientists regarding global warming, and denounce anyone who questions the government "consensus" (aided by their sympathetic media allies) as "deniers". In other words, an excellent example of "the mainstream media - all of it - being a bought-and-paid-for tool of government and corporate power" (to quote a reviewer's commentary on the documentary). Critiques of the likes of Clinton and Obama hardly make the documentary "objective". From the point of view of the documentary, their "sin" is that they still have some ties to capitalism. Corporate capitalism under the direction of the State to be sure (more like fascism, and having very little to do with free market capitalism), but insufficiently Socialist, and therefore "bad".