John R. MacArthur

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John R. MacArthur (born June 4, 1956 in New York City ) is an American journalist.

MacArthur grew up in Winnetka , Illinois and received a BA in History from Columbia College in 1978 . He was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal (1977), the Washington Star (1978), Bergen Record (1978–1979), the Chicago Sun-Times (1979–1982), and Assistant to the Director of Foreign Correspondence at United Press International (1982 ).

In 1983 he became President and Editor of Harper's Magazine . In 1993 he received the Mencken Award for Best Commentary for his revelation in the New York Times about "Nayirah," the daughter of a Kuwaiti diplomat who tearfully recounted the propaganda lie on the Senate Human Rights Committee that she had witnessed Iraqi people Soldiers threw Kuwaiti babies out of incubators.

John R. MacArthur wrote the books Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War (1992) - German title: Die Schlacht der Lügen - and The Selling of “Free Trade”: Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy ( 2000) - in German: The sale of "free trade": NAFTA, Washington and the infiltration of American democracy .

MacArthur lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters.

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