Pynchon name-checked by Michiko--this random world--in conspiracy debunking book

[Joseph Tracy]

Been hearing Aaronovitch on the radio.  His thesis has major flaws  
and is built around straw men like 9-11as inside job  and the Elders  
of Zion. He doesn't have the guts to explore instances when a handful  
of of voices spoke out against a conspiracy and were marginalized ,  
then proved right.
Examples: the progressive left said no weapons of Mass destruction ,  
no to Saddam involvement with 9-11. Danny Schechter, Nouriel Roubini,  
and Jim Kunstler very accurately predicted the financial meltdown and  
described the criminal fraud that led to this event. A handful of  
reporters, one from Fortune questioned the reality of Enron's  
"success". And actual conspiracies have been far from rare.  The CIA  
toppling of Arbenz and Mossadegh, assassination attempts on Castro  
and Bay of Pigs fiasco, US  support for Pinochet Coup, the Gulf of  
Tonkin incident used to justify escalation in Vietnam, the watergate  
break-in and coverup, torture during the gulf war are just a handful  
of relatively recent large and small scale  US government  
conspiracies. Probably from the top of our collective heads this  
group could come up with a very long list of successful and  
unsuccessful conspiracies ranging from outright mafia criminality to  
wall street scams.

The problem here is the notion that there is an objective and  
accurate journalism that is the norm of reliable information. After a  
lifetime of watching the deception and  failures of this system I  
like to evaluate evidence on a topic from all points of view and have  
no particular allegiance to the supposed accuracy and objectivity of  
the MSM. I t often turns out that minority views that describe  
criminal  conspiracies are right and mainstream journalism is  
thoroughly bamboozled by the liars in business , government and the   
media.

If I find it highly credible that Oswald was not the lone gunman and  
that the investigation was fucked up by the criminal J Edgar Hoover  
and the political interests of LBJ, this doesn't mean I am an  
unrealistic dupe of every conspiracy theory that comes down the pike,  
only that in this case I find compelling evidence to think a  
conspiracy is a likely explanation.

Should one be wary of conspiracy theories? Of course . Connecting  
dots is a risky business. But one should be even more wary of the  
many and very real conspiracies that are shaping our world. History  
reveals that criminal  conspiracies have been a central force in  
shaping  the course of human events. We ignores this reality at our  
peril.

Every war of aggression is a criminal conspiracy. Every dictatorship  
is the result of a criminal conspiracy. Most  monarchies are the  
result of criminal conspiracy.  Economic and military colonialism is  
an expression of criminal conspiracy.








On Feb 16, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

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