Journalists Whine--But Judy Miller Has (Finally) Served the Calling
These journalists are out of touch. They don't understand the seismic consequences of the Iraq war, which is slowly transforming our politics (beginning with the Congress). Journalists failed us in that war; Judy Miller disgraced the New York Times by carrying the water for Richard Cheney and thereby misleading a society, with the gravest consequences. In fact, you might say that Judy Miller's testimony is her most honest reporting yet about the way the Iraq war was engineered. Thank you, Judy and Scooter; now I know why the VP's tragic/literary chief of staff routinely took hours of out of his days to talk to reporters.
This trial has demonstrated the corruption of "access journalism," which these journalists like to style as "professional." The crisis of leadership that Iraq represents is also theirs. In the Information Age, they failed us by pushing this war on the basis of false information about WMD and no information about the hidden agendas. It turns out that the less access you had, the more clearthinking you were about what a bad idea it was to invade Iraq. Why does Barack Obama look so good right now? He wasn't in the Senate, that's why; he wasn't compromised. I.F. Stone and Noam Chomsky always said, it's more important to read than to go to a cocktail party.
The professional bloodletting that is happening in the Libby trial, the destruction of all those promises journalists made to the White Housethis can only serve journalism right now by restoring traditional virtues of the writing business: a sense of vocation that has nothing to do with corporate salary, a sense of citizenship that has nothing to do with Meritocratic Election, and a sense of detachment that wants nothing to do with imperialistic misadventures that are bound to cause untold suffering in another part of the world.



















Phil,
Interesting you should be saying this now, when they are starting it all over again with Iran. They (i.e. the administration disinformation artists and the "stenographers") seem to have learned absolutely nothing. it's quite extraordinary. The real question is whether the American public and the Congress has learned anything, and if so, what they will be able to do about it. What do you think is going on, and what do you think is going to happen?
In fact, it's the same individual flack writing the stuff:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003544369
Saturday
You need to read this, on the person behind the Fox sado drama, "24":
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070219fa_fact_mayer
Now the situation appears to be this:
(1) Surnow is allowed to spew racial and religious hatred across the US public at prime time every few days.
(2) Anyone who suggests this power is accorded to him because he is Jewish (as opposed to merely because he is a 'right-winger' in some lame, narcissistic, Judeocentric sense) is a 'hater'.
kameraden Rowan, your really starting to lose it man. Take a vacation
Minority Whites
By Scott McConnell
Minority Whites
Jonathan Tilove?s Newhouse News Service story on the recent American Renaissance conference in Herndon, VA, arrived the other day. American Renaissance (AR) is an erudite, racialist or white nationalist publication. I subscribed after interviewing its editor, Jared Taylor, for a magazine piece I never finished?nearly seven years ago. Taylor is a Yale graduate, a gentleman, fluent in several languages, a man who might have succeeded in many different fields. In 1983 he published an acclaimed book on Japanese culture. Since the late 80s he has devoted his life to the somewhat thankless task of raising the racial consciousness of white Americans. He has few illusions about his progress. Tilove quotes him welcoming the AR conferees: "We are minoritarian. We are marginal in terms of influence and numbers and not only that, according to the mainstream, we are a despicable group."
In 1995 I thought the Taylor message merited some consideration. I was working at the New York Post, whose editorial page was perched on the cutting edge of the city?s racial divides. New York?s crime rate was much higher; Los Angeles had recently been through riots; O.J. had been acquitted; a prominent black professor was urging black jurors to ignore evidence against black defendants, etc. Commentary assigned me to do a piece, which I provisionally titled "The White Man?s Malcolm." I wrote it quickly over a week?s vacation. Neal Kozodoy, my editor, said I indulged Taylor too much and asked for a rewrite, which I never got around to.
Once one gets past the taboos that hold that white racial consciousness is uniquely evil, the arguments in its favor are obvious. Those against are more subtle and take longer to germinate.
Clearly American whites are facing a political and cultural dispossession that is without modern historical precedent: immigration, unless reformed, will reduce them to minority status in this century; affirmative action directly discriminates against them; hate-crime statutes are twisted to punish them unequally; the culture industry devotes vast resources to denigrating their history and heroes. We celebrate Dr. King (who plagiarized his PhD thesis, for heaven?s sake) and relegate George Washington to "Presidents? Day."
Taylor wraps arguments like this in a doctrine that seeks to prepare whites to go their own way. He finds it unnatural that, in a country where every other group organizes along ethnic and racial lines to pursue its goals, whites are supposed to make extraordinary efforts to extirpate their subconscious racism. Why shouldn?t they pursue their racial interests as well?
Whats fairly obvious here is that the white power movement supports Phil Weiss and are among his bigest fans.
Humorous take on the "new journalism" of Michael R. Gordon and the Times--
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/001315.html
My impression is that Jared Taylor is at the philo-Jewish end of the white politics spectrum.
However, the point of the anonymous cut and paste artist is not a rational one.
His or her aim is to indicate that everyone who fails to worship the sun that shines out of each and every Jewish fundament is a crypto nazi.
This is a rather tedious, stalinist type of 'argument'.
Rowan,
If you oppose Israeli policy against the Palestinians on humanitarian grounds, it follows, from consistency if nothing else, that you must apply the same principle to any instance of injustice, whether against an individual or against a people.
Your country banished its political prisoners, mostly Irish, to Australia, in a policy of dual ethnic cleansing, as you uprooted the aboriginal population there as well in transplanting your own colonial subjects, and banished them to the infertile hinterland.
Moreover, you continue to pursue an unjust policy of military occupation in Ireland, and build "peace fences" to segregate the population there. When will you pay reparations to the Irish?
So as not to be hypocritical, I would add that the United States decimated the Native American population, and consigned them to reservations, a policy of ethnic cleansing that has not been reversed or overturned.
Likewise, we provoked war with Mexico to sieze its property, which we now call California and the American southwest, and we are trying
to expel Mexicans from that territory, calling them 'illegal immigrants' and threatening to build a wall of separation on the Mexican border, just like your peace walls, or the Israeli wall.
Finally, we have never adequately made amends for the lasting legacy of slavery, preferring instead to imagine that we have purged our society of racism, and turning a blind eye to myriad instances of institutionalized prejudice that preserves discrimination, albeit in a less conspicuous way.
Yes, Rowan, you must oppose injustice against people where you find it, under whatever guise it cloaks itself.
The above post contains one of the stupidest, most hypocritical, mentally and morally stunted arguments I know of, and because it has those qualities it is the most common argument mounted by zionist Jews who think they are clever.
What it boils down to is, until the rest of you are perfect, buzz off and don't bother us.
Jason Leopold has been doing some good work covering the Libby trial. Lots of little insights into the govt/media relationship--
Wolfowitz faxed the Wall Street Journal a set of "talking points" about the former ambassador that the paper's editors could use to discredit him in print, according to Libby's grand jury testimony, and then leaked to the paper a portion of the then-still-classified NIE that claimed Iraq did in fact attempt to acquire uranium from Niger. The Journal printed, verbatim, Wolfowitz's talking points in an editorial in its July 17, 2003, edition and then misled its readers about the source of the information.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021207A.shtml
Rowan,
I think you have thoroughly internalized your country's venerable tradition of imperial groupthink, justifying your conquests and the de facto exploitation of former colonies that is still occuring to this day as somehow benevolent.
What business does England have in the Falklands or Bermuda???
Like Lady Macbeth, you can't expunge your guilt.
I don't represent "England", except in your racial fantasies.
Come to think of it, even if I did, the superficial contest of national identities would be meaningless, since today's nations are basically figments created and destroyed by financial power, which is not parcelled out in proportion to the size of nations, by any means.
To state this more clearly : British policies are not the policies of Britain, but the policies of the bankers who own Britain. Similarly for the USA, etc.
Ahem, Rowan, you do represent England, at least in my thoughts, where you can be found driving a white Jaguar amidst wuthering downs in foggy evenings. (Think of it as a prayer for your well being, though you may find it absurd.)
I remember those million british protesting against the Iraq war. Britain is not Blair. Britain has not been what britons would like it to be.
Hey, but I still think you are the secret vampires of Europe :-)
Bye for now.
The other anonymous.
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced Monday that had it had tested that country's state-of-the-art anti-missile system. "The test was a complete success," said the official. "President Bush picked up on the first ring." (Mike Gerber)
http://www.mikegerber.com/2007/02/newsbreaks-21307.html
Settlers call on US Jews to buy West Bank homes
Yesha Council exports activity overseas with fair marketing homes in settlements to American investors
Guy Meit-Tal, YNet, 14 Feb '07
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3364633,00.html
"You too can own a home and strengthen the Zionist dream," proclaims an advertisement issued by the Yesha Council and the Amana organization in an appeal to the United States Jewry, as the settler movement acts to thaw the deep freeze which has taken over construction in the West Bank. The Amana organization defines itself as "the settlement movement of Gush Emunim, with the primary goal of developing communities in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights, the Galilee and the Negev." The two groups have launched a campaign which will allow American Jews to purchase a second home in a settlement, pitching the deal as a zero risk venture: "Your investment is insured, protected and 100 percent legal," proclaims the ad. The government virtually no longer authorizes new construction projects in the West Bank and Israeli citizens are wary to invest their money in the area, whose future depends on the for-now-forgotten realignment plan which may see the entire region evacuated. And so Yesha and Amana decided to turn to Americans interested in building their dream home in the hills of the West Bank: A cottage in Kiryat Arba or a villa in Karnei Shomron. The houses are priced anywhere from $94,000 to $170,000 per unit. Last month saw one of the Yesha Council leaders, Pinchas Wallerstein, meeting with Jewish community leaders in the United States and pitching the idea of organizing groups or individual investors interested in the region. "They were afraid at first," says Wallerstein, "they asked a lot of difficult questions about what will become of the houses if it is again decided to evacuate part of the Land of Israel. They were concerned but very receptive to our offer." Following the US visit, the Amana organization set out to participate in a housing fair in New Jersey, where they will try to market homes in settlements.
"anonymous" uses the usual accusation of "selective sensitivity" against Rowan. Of course, it is a straw man argument:
"Much more disturbing is the intensive resorting to "anti-semitism" claims by Jewish individuals and institutions who do try to maintain a look of integrity. Such claims take many creative forms: for example, some Jews have a morally repulsive pastime of looking for worst cases of oppression -- Russian atrocities in Chechnya (whose veterans, by the way, join the Israeli army), Chinese in Tibet -- which supposedly "prove" that the media focus on Israel is anti-semitically motivated. As if it were not outrageous enough to be on the shortlist of evil-doers, as if only the gold medal in this satanic competition, but not bronze or silver, is worthy of protest."
Ran HaCohen, Abusing anti-Semitism
www.antiwar.com/hacohen/?articleid=1335
Anonymous wrote on Feb.13 12:12pm
"So as not to be hypocritical, I would add that the United States decimated the Native American population, and consigned them to reservations, a policy of ethnic cleansing that has not been reversed or overturned."... etc, etc, etc,
Yeah, but dude, the point is we're not doing ethnic cleansing or genocide anymore and we don't like the idea of bankrolling the Israelis so they can do it. They wouldn't be able to do it without us. And if we had an unbought press they wouldn't be able to do it at all. There are still plenty of things that Americans won't stand for.
You stinking, stupid cunt Brenda.
Keep your bullshit accusations to yourself.
Yeah - your grandma and grandpa did such a good job of wiping out the native people that you can now throw them a couple of casinos and act holier than thou against others. "We're not doing ethnic cleansing or genocide anymore." So your advice to the Israelis is that they should have done ethnic cleansing and genocide earlier in their history, and then shown remorse after the fact. Interesting. Put your money where your mouth is Lady and start giving back land to the Native Americans. Lets start with Manhattan.
Is the jewish controlled press responsible for the ethnic cleansing in Rawanda and between Shias and Sunnis as well?
Brenda,
We're not doing genocide in the United States anymore because we finished the job. Don't kid yourself.
And with respect to ethnic cleansing, I would submit to you that aggressive anti-immigration enforcement, and trying to reverse a tide of latin-American immigrants constitutes precisely that. It was their land (don't take my word for it, read Ulysses Grant), and we claimed it for our own. Now you can defend our national rights to ensure border integrity, but you shouldn't have any illusions about the fact that this is merely an instance of might making right. Noam Chomsky, frequently invoked around these precincts, doesn't.
With respect to Silver Medalist, the issue is not whether Rowan is critical of Israel or not, which he is perfectly entitled to be, it's whether his stance is based upon an ideal or principle of social justice. He freely admits that it is not, which is also his right, but it would be hypocritical of him to say that his view is a matter of human rights, if he is indifferent to the plights of other subjugated peoples, or pretends that he or his culture or country is not at all culpable for much of the suffering in the world.
For the conspiracy theorists among us, more on the 5 Dancing Israelis story:
The new CounterPunch article by Ketcham is print-only, but I found a link to a PDF version--
www.internet.uqam.ca/web/t6270/israel_and_911.pdf
Also, the recent DemocracyNow! interview with the author was already posted, but there's an additional seqment from that show which is not on the DemocracyNow site--
media.putfile.com/Democracy-NOW---2-8-2007---Part-2
Here's Part 1 if you missed it--
www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1610254
[The server wasn't letting me post with the full links, so you'll have to cut and paste.]
The above comments on my supposed views are not based on anything I have said, but on projection of stereotypes and prejudice onto my name, which acts as a clothespeg.
I have made it quite clear that I do not recognise the moral responsibility of modern states, since I hold them to be pawns of international banking. This proposition seems to fall outside the mental wavelength of the people who criticise me, since they don't perceive it at all, and just rattle on about whether "the English" are "better" than "the Jews" as if they were twelve-year-olds reading their first school history books.
What you all have to get to grips with is the abnormal (clientilistic, as I put it) relationship between your supposed 'nation' and the most powerful of these banking dynasties, because that is what is going to bring about a race war, or rather several race wars, in which you as self-professed Jews are unlikely to do very well.
The critic above implies that he has some idea which he calls 'social justice', but in fact his ideas are completely cosmetic.
Since I keep referring to bankers, let me recommend this anonymous twenty year old text, which I think it would be difficult to improve upon. Please ignore the silly quotations used to introduce it, and the various spelling mistakes - this is still my favourite edition :
http://www.rexresearch.com/articles/ocultech.htm
The trouble is not that free human beings act radically evil, as is being done far beyond any measure imaginable to Kant, but that there is not yet a world in which they, and this flashes in Brecht, would no longer need to be evil.
(Adorno, Negative Dialectics, 218)
-- in other words, to bring the imagined perfect world into being, morality may be cast aside. And this is the 'Left'.
Kameraden Rowan, I'd still like to know what life is like on Klingon, Please tell us what you do up there all day.
Bill, you talk about worlds of their own. try this one:
http://www.counterpunch.org/atzmon02152007.html
We are asked to believe that Lenni Brenner, a life-long Trotskyite, has nothing better to take up with Gilad Atzmon than the speculation that he has converted to Christianity? Why doesn't Atzmon ask Brenner why he included Eichmann's phony 'memoir' in his '51 Documents'? These people are just fakes.
I agree with this, but there is an even more powerful point. The cited atrocities are irrelevant to US national security, while the Israeli violations of international law lead to massive resentment of the US, by Arabs and Muslims since we support Israel. It is one thing to die for a noble cause; it is another to die because of lack of condemnation of an international crime.
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"for example, some Jews have a morally repulsive pastime of looking for worst cases of oppression -- Russian atrocities in Chechnya (whose veterans, by the way, join the Israeli army), Chinese in Tibet -- which supposedly "prove" that the media focus on Israel is anti-semitically motivated. As if it were not outrageous enough to be on the shortlist of evil-doers, as if only the gold medal in this satanic competition, but not bronze or silver, is worthy of protest.""