If anyone is interested in a pdf of the first issue of Larry Flynt's short-lived The Rebel Magazine from 11/22/83, let me know. For a bit of the magazine's interesting history, go here:
http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/regulars/matrix/0...
Here is the cover:
Wow, looks intriguing. Must be a serious collector's item. There's barely anything on the internet about it.
I'd definitely like to get the PDF...
Imagine who put up the significant amount of money for these articles to be researched and written by Mae and published in The Realist? John Lennon.
Is this confirmed?
Western Goals also provided employee screening for private sector munitions-related companies doing sensitive public and private contracts. Western Goals was facing a class action suit involving dozens of plaintiffs in California for being in possession of this data; thus, Larry MacDonald, as then head of Western Goals and also - worth mentioning - the John Birch Society, an interesting group who published an actually pretty decent book called And None Dare Call it Conspiracy, was supoenaed to discuss, in a California court of law, why and how Western Goals, a "non-profit, non-government" agency, obtained all these confidential government files and their intent in procuring them if they were a non-profit organization?
What is your take on the seeming paradox of JBS and other extreme right-wingers (or people who seem to be involved in the conspiracy) supposedly revealing the conspiracy? Is it a case of setting up false outlets for these ideas; undermining them from within or with faulty evidence or creating smear associations? Or do these people really believe this stuff and want people to know about it?
Some Dare Call It Conspiracy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/0...
This experience reminded me of a political theory I developed back in the 70's during my "radical" period - that politics is like a circle. Defined, of two given people, one may find him/herself to be so far to the "left", and the other so far to the "right", that they transit the circle, meeting at the political twain. This is what happened in our case.
The other writer espoused theories and opinions that could well be found in a Green, anarchist, or liberal/progressive Democrats' handbook. He felt the IMF, the United Nations, and large mega-business interests, were controlling the world, and certainly the United States government. So what's to disagree with? Surely, I differed with him on religion in government, the NRA, the United Nations, and a few other issues, but by and large, we were both surprised and amazed by how much we agreed upon.
We Call It Conspiracy
On my recent move to California, I was going through some of my old books and found a dog-eared copy of one called None Dare Call It Conspiracy, by Gary Allen. In its day (1970), it caused a minor sensation for its revelations, and was quickly dismissed by the mainstream press as a tome from the John Birch Society. At the time, I also dismissed it, as the writer denigrated liberalism and socialism with the same fervor with which he denounced communism, bankers, and corpratism. I remember my disgust with some of the assertions and comparisons the author had made, and tossed the book into a box, to be traded at the next book fair.
Last week, upon my rediscovery of the book, I decided to reread it, just for the hell of it. Well let me tell you, I've finished the book (again), and have come to the conclusion that the author was/is nothing short of a prophet!. Yes, the book is outdated (there is no more Soviet Union, for example), and some of his screed at times strikes me as a bit anti-Semitic, though he professes this not to be the case, and a few other niggling details. But, again, like my finding agreements with the "winger-writer" in Arizona, I found myself shaking my head, and feeling a harmony of opinion.
Imagine who put up the significant amount of money for these articles to be researched and written by Mae and published in The Realist? John Lennon.
Is this confirmed?
Read about it here from Paul Krassner: http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articl...
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