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Only three hours before it was set to be broadcast Sunday night, a “60 Minutes” report on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador, used by the Trump administration to detain migrants from Venezuela, was blocked by the new pro-Trump executive in charge of CBS News, Bari Weiss.

Dick Cheney is dead. The American people will now be subjected to the predictable deluge of tributes for the former vice president from the political establishment and the corporate media. Every effort will be made to sanitize the record of a war criminal and enemy of democratic rights who helped paved the way for the dictatorial actions of Donald Trump.

Officials at Pepperdine University, a private Christian institution in Malibu in Los Angeles County, censored and then closed down an art exhibition at its Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art recently, charging some of the artists with including “overtly political content” in their works.

The fixation on a lone culprit serves to divert attention from political responsibility. Both major parties share it. For decades, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have gutted public prevention budgets while shielding private utilities and insurers…