US Lies About Political Prisoners – and Almost Everything Else by journalist published on 2020-08-17T23:45:26Z The official US position, that this country holds no political prisoners, is part of “the lie and the founding mythology of US ‘democracy,’” said Nyle Fort, a Princeton University doctoral candidate, activist and minister. “But those of us who live on the underside of that history know better,” said Fort. Genre News & Politics