Russ Choma and David Corn
Russ Choma is a reporter in the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones, covering money and influence in politics. He previously was a reporter for OpenSecrets.org, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and the New Hampshire Union Leader. Follow him on Twitter @russchoma.
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Efforts to portray the U.S. government’s military actions as well-meaning and virtuous are incessant. The pretenses that falsify the past are foreshadowing excuses for future warfare.