Click here to access article by Nick Turse from Asia Times Online.
Turse introduces his thesis by a fascinating imaginary of our future around 2053 by projecting present day trends. In the process he illustrates the meaning of the quote attributed to Winston Churchill that “history is written by the victors.” Turse illustrates this with only the Vietnam War, but all wars and
oppression of domestic opposition have been treated similarly.
Actually, nearly all information, entertainment, and educational material is written by the ruling class or the "victors". If you stop to think about it, the origins of all ruling classes can be traced to their ancestors' victorious inflictions of violence upon their adversaries who frequently were ordinary workers or peasants. So, in order to maintain their rule, ruling classes falsify all kinds of information to justify their rule and the existing unjust social/economic order that they have imposed on their subjects.
That is precisely why every person who aspires to be a fully free and independent human being must work at finding alternative sources of information that is reasonably accurate.