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"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government." — Thomas Jefferson, 1789
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When Trump won, my phone started filling up with the same question from friends back home: "what is the world saying about this?" I’d answer, they’d go quiet for a second, and then: "why aren’t we hearing that?"
That second question I couldn’t quite answer.
Then the war in Iran started. The messages became a flood.
Then the war in Iran started. The messages became a flood.
Fifteen thousand people found this in three weeks without me asking them to. I’m still not entirely sure what that means. But I think it means the question my friends were asking — "why aren’t we hearing that?" — isn’t just their question.
This is me answering that second question.
This is me answering that second question.
Twice a day
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Rudy Martinez is the founder of The Rest of the World Report. He publishes daily international news coverage sourced from the world's press, translated for American readers. ROTWR is free, independent, and sustained entirely by its readers.
