Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 14:00.
...the power to get a professor demoted with the power to set US foreign policy. Precisely the confusion that the propaganda system must maintain in order to function.
Mersheimer and Walt may have got in hot water, but they've also won a great deal of media attention—which translates into book sales. While real anti-imperialists get pilloried by right and "left" alike in these sad times.
And you would be thanking your lucky stars that "Pat Buchanan is not too powerful a master" (yet) if you knew which way was up.
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The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
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You are confusing...
...the power to get a professor demoted with the power to set US foreign policy. Precisely the confusion that the propaganda system must maintain in order to function.
Mersheimer and Walt may have got in hot water, but they've also won a great deal of media attention—which translates into book sales. While real anti-imperialists get pilloried by right and "left" alike in these sad times.
And you would be thanking your lucky stars that "Pat Buchanan is not too powerful a master" (yet) if you knew which way was up.