{"id":82110,"date":"2025-05-05T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82110"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:03:51","slug":"we-are-at-a-moment-in-history-where-the-truth-has-to-be-stated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/05\/we-are-at-a-moment-in-history-where-the-truth-has-to-be-stated\/","title":{"rendered":"We are at a moment in history where the truth has to be stated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I liked <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/dont-call-it-conflicts-of-interest?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=365422&amp;post_id=162789546&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=3862y&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this from Robert Reich this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Words matter. When the media points out Trump\u2019s \u201cpotential conflicts of interest,\u201d as it has in recent days when describing Trump\u2019s growing crypto enterprise, it doesn\u2019t come close to telling the public what\u2019s really going on \u2014 unprecedented paybacks and self-dealing by the president of the United States, using his office to make billions.<\/p>\n<p>The correct word is\u00a0<em>corruption.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reich shares my enthusiasm for the right word, and for stating what is very obviously going on, even if it upsets people to say it. We are at a moment in history where that is necessary, even if there might be a price to pay for doing so at some time to come.<\/p>\n<p>I think Robert Reich, like me, thinks we cannot take the risk of turning a blind eye as so many did in the 1930s, as tyranny developed.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend his Substack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I liked this from Robert Reich this morning: Words matter. When the media points out Trump\u2019s \u201cpotential conflicts of interest,\u201d as it has in recent<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/05\/we-are-at-a-moment-in-history-where-the-truth-has-to-be-stated\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82112,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82110\/revisions\/82112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}