Danny Haiphong is an journalist, political analyst, scholar and social activist. For the last five years he has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles also appear in Global Research, The American Herald Tribune, MintPressNews, CounterPunch and elsewhere. Danny's work was featured in former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s book How the U.S. Creates “Sh*thole Countries (2018). Haiphong recently co-authored the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror --  which takes the reader through the history of how the US perceives itself as a force of good in the world despite its long history of expansionism, war and domestic neglect.