21-12-2013, 01:12 PM
I suspect he is a disciple of Alexander Cockburn.
It's infuriating because otherwise Alexander (and Leslie) Cockburn did a lot of great work on other subjects.
I.F. Stone, who I otherwise admire greatly, stuck his head in the sand on the JFK assassination. Here's a guy who was the first to suspect that the Gulf of Tonkin was a lie. His Hidden History of the Korean War reveals things about that war that mainstream histories still don't talk about.
Sylvia Meagher: "In his weekly newsletter he published a heated defense of the Report...Two years later questions about the Warren Report and demands for a re-opening of the investigation issued from every quarter of the political spectrum, and such men as Max Lerner, Harrison Salisbury and Alistair Cooke exhibited the good grace of admitting that their first enthusiasm had been ill-founded, yet Stone never revised his original strange partisanship." She theorizes that Stone supported the WR because he and other elements of the Left were relieved that the assassination was not blamed on a communist conspiracy, which might have led to a witch hunt.
These are examples of people who don't need to be controlled or paid to be gatekeepers; they do it out of fear or because they have certain ideological fixations or political prejudices they can't get over.
It's infuriating because otherwise Alexander (and Leslie) Cockburn did a lot of great work on other subjects.
I.F. Stone, who I otherwise admire greatly, stuck his head in the sand on the JFK assassination. Here's a guy who was the first to suspect that the Gulf of Tonkin was a lie. His Hidden History of the Korean War reveals things about that war that mainstream histories still don't talk about.
Sylvia Meagher: "In his weekly newsletter he published a heated defense of the Report...Two years later questions about the Warren Report and demands for a re-opening of the investigation issued from every quarter of the political spectrum, and such men as Max Lerner, Harrison Salisbury and Alistair Cooke exhibited the good grace of admitting that their first enthusiasm had been ill-founded, yet Stone never revised his original strange partisanship." She theorizes that Stone supported the WR because he and other elements of the Left were relieved that the assassination was not blamed on a communist conspiracy, which might have led to a witch hunt.
These are examples of people who don't need to be controlled or paid to be gatekeepers; they do it out of fear or because they have certain ideological fixations or political prejudices they can't get over.