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The Nation (sort of) covers KPFK Pacifica / Democracy Now 9-11 fake scandal (3 posts)

  1. mark
    Member

    http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/487369#comme...

    note the virulent anti-semitic spamming in the comments section promoting the most lunatic 9/11 "truth" nonsense, a great way to alienate nearly everyone

    your tax dollars are hard at work

    meanwhile, the super-truthers don't usually mention that Democracy Now! started getting syndicated in newspapers by the Hearst Corporation a month after DN hosted a fake debate between "no planes" (Loose Change) and "no conspiracy" (Popular Mechanics). Hearst, of course, is also the parent company of Popular Mechanics, whose famous 9/11 debunking article included graphics from an early 9/11 truth website - questionsquestions.net - to debunk two of the most ridiculous 9/11 hoax claims. It's hard to prove the motivations of those who flog the false "no plane" nonsense - some are sincere (but wrong), some are doing it deliberately. However, it's beyond reasonable doubt that Popular Mechanics knew that some of the false claims were just propaganda and using the "truth" website debunking graphics proves it's just a bad joke.

    It would also be interesting to hear Democracy Now staff explain why the one - and only - time they did a show on Peak Oil issues, they had to "balance" the interview of Julian Darley, founder of the Post Carbon Institute, with Michael Lynch, an industry hack who is a Peak Oil denier. A real "alternative" media could spent many shows profiling all of the shifts that communities will have to do to cope with the end of cheap oil, although it's understandable if that is a scary topic in Lower Manhattan, where Democracy Now has its offices. It's not a pleasant topic anywhere.

    http://www.oilempire.us/democracy-now.html

    http://www.oilempire.us/popular-mechanics.html

    "Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. Therefore one who has love, courage and wisdom is one in a million who moves the world, as with Jesus, Buddha and Gandhi." -- Ammon Hennacy, "The One-Man Revolution"

    Posted 15 years ago #
  2. christs4sale
    Administrator

    Amy Goodman is, of course, the co-host of Democracy Now!, an unabashedly progressive news program that airs on over 800 stations across the country. As anyone who has listened to even five minutes of the program knows, Goodman is about as likely to be on the payroll of the CIA as Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky. She has probably devoted more airtime to dissecting the CIA's transgressions in the past decade than any other member of her profession.

    This paragraph particularly showed the naivety of the writer. I am not saying that any of those people are specifically on the payroll of the CIA, but to just assume that if someone is not compromised and fully honest by merely expressing a progressive view is ridiculous.

    Posted 15 years ago #
  3. mark
    Member

    Chomsky does defend the Warren Commission, a curious position for someone who is allegedly America's leading dissident.

    "I agree that Professor Chomsky is not a CIA agent. But with respect to his pronouncements on the JFK assassination he is worse than a CIA agent. Without being an agent, with his enormous prestige as a thinker, as an independent radical, as a courageous man, he does the work of the agency. ... He is unconvinced by the evidence of a conspiracy, but his is utterly convinced that JFK was a consummate cold warrior who could not have changed and did nothing to irritate the military industrial intelligence complex." -- Vincent Salandria

    "Could you say something about the connivance and the role of the American Secret Service?" "This attack was surely an enormous shock and surprise to the intelligence services of the West, including those of the United States. The CIA did have a role, a major one in fact, but that was in the 1980s, when it joined Pakistani intelligence and others (USA, Britain, etc) in recruiting, training, and arming the most extreme Islamic fundamentalists it could find to fight a 'Holy War' against the Russian invaders of Afghanistan." -- interview with Il Manifesto (Italy), September 19, 2001, reprinted in Noam Chomsky, "9-11," Seven Stories Press, New York (2001, 2)

    http://www.ctka.net/pr197-left.html The Left and the Death of Kennedy By Jim DiEugenio

    Chomsky and his good friend and soulmate on the JFK case, Alexander Cockburn went on an (orchestrated?) campaign at the time of Stone’s JFK to convince whatever passes for the left in this country that the murder of Kennedy was 1) not the result of a conspiracy, and 2) didn’t matter even if it was. They were given unlimited space in magazines like The Nation and Z Magazine. But, as Howard Zinn implied in a recent letter to Schotz defending Chomsky, these stances are not based on facts or evidence, but on a political choice. They choose not to fight this battle. They would rather spend their time and effort on other matters. When cornered themselves, Chomsky and Cockburn resort to rhetorical devices like exaggeration, sarcasm, and ridicule. In other words, they resort to propaganda and evasion.

    Posted 15 years ago #

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