03-01-2014, 03:56 AM
Any analysis of "Alternative News" sites like Truthout, Counterpunch , TomDispatch etc. must OF NECESSITY also take into consideration the quid pro quo factor of their Foundation funding.
Compare what the leading "leftists?" of the last 30 years-- Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, Seymour Hersh and now it seems Glen Ford-- have written on non- National Security State issue with what they write about the key moments of National Security State history involving POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS.
These assassinations are not about individuals, but rather about mouthpiece (formal politics) and french horn (the since rotted away social movements that these mouthpieces are THEORETICALLY SUPPOSED TO represent).
Go ahead compare the often outstanding quality of their writing on the policies of non-Assassinated vs. their writing on the assassinated Democrats of the left-liberal coalition that was made extinct THE LAST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY THAT THE COUNTRY WAS NOT MOVING RIGHTWARDS.
There is a huge sample size of their writings to make this comparison easy enough, should one want to take what I call "The Encounter Magazine Test" i.e . the informed questioning as to whether or not these writers are writing to steer real leftist readers away from inquiry into why the mouthpieces were all shot and crashed to death.
Both the mouthpiece and the French Horn are needed to make notes that waft full-spectrum. For 50 years, the left has been the target of deliberate sparing of key truths re The National Security State. See Fred Cook-- the lead investigative reporter for The Nation -- and his comments about how that magazines editor Cary McWilliams censored and blocked his coverage of the JFK Assassination. Also see more recently the historian Joseph McBride about how The Nation inflicted a CIA connected editor on his articles re George Bush In Dallas on November, 1963 [not that I personally jump to all the conclusions that some have regarding this perhaps too Zambonied ice-rink]
Let's make 2014 the year we put mouthpiece and french horn together.
To make that happen we will have to ask some hard questions, and not assume that we know the answers. We will also have to OURSELVES MEDIATE the discussion, because the internet, whether OSTENSIBLY left, OSTENSIBLY right, or OSTENSIBLY center, has a way of finding "wealth in division" in the words of the once melodious-over-moats Lou Reed.
The quo's the thing that makes the quid not ring.
Compare what the leading "leftists?" of the last 30 years-- Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn, Seymour Hersh and now it seems Glen Ford-- have written on non- National Security State issue with what they write about the key moments of National Security State history involving POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS.
These assassinations are not about individuals, but rather about mouthpiece (formal politics) and french horn (the since rotted away social movements that these mouthpieces are THEORETICALLY SUPPOSED TO represent).
Go ahead compare the often outstanding quality of their writing on the policies of non-Assassinated vs. their writing on the assassinated Democrats of the left-liberal coalition that was made extinct THE LAST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY THAT THE COUNTRY WAS NOT MOVING RIGHTWARDS.
There is a huge sample size of their writings to make this comparison easy enough, should one want to take what I call "The Encounter Magazine Test" i.e . the informed questioning as to whether or not these writers are writing to steer real leftist readers away from inquiry into why the mouthpieces were all shot and crashed to death.
Both the mouthpiece and the French Horn are needed to make notes that waft full-spectrum. For 50 years, the left has been the target of deliberate sparing of key truths re The National Security State. See Fred Cook-- the lead investigative reporter for The Nation -- and his comments about how that magazines editor Cary McWilliams censored and blocked his coverage of the JFK Assassination. Also see more recently the historian Joseph McBride about how The Nation inflicted a CIA connected editor on his articles re George Bush In Dallas on November, 1963 [not that I personally jump to all the conclusions that some have regarding this perhaps too Zambonied ice-rink]
Let's make 2014 the year we put mouthpiece and french horn together.
To make that happen we will have to ask some hard questions, and not assume that we know the answers. We will also have to OURSELVES MEDIATE the discussion, because the internet, whether OSTENSIBLY left, OSTENSIBLY right, or OSTENSIBLY center, has a way of finding "wealth in division" in the words of the once melodious-over-moats Lou Reed.
The quo's the thing that makes the quid not ring.