Asymmetrical Polarization

[Mark Kohut]

Atticus,

See how prophetic I am....






On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Thomas <uzs7lz at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:17:42 -0500
>  Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And however you cut it, the NYT remains the paper of record, for better or
>> worse & does have buried in it some real investigative journalism. But
>> again, that's comparing apples to torn apart Iraqi children. And when
>> that's given due consideration, I feel feelings that are hard to describe.
>>
>
> 'In 2002, reporting by Gordon and Judith Miller played a key role in
> raising public support for the Iraq War. Their article, "Threats and
> Responses: The Iraqis; U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb
> Parts", asserted, "Iraq has stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and
> has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb."
> Anonymous "American officials" and "intelligence experts" are the only
> sources.'
>
> Wikipedia, "Michael Gordon"
>
> Gordon is a proven liar and warmonger who shares responsibility for each
> and every Iraqi child torn apart by US bombs or killed in the course of the
> sectarian warfare that broke out as a consequence of that war. Lest we
> forget: The war was an illegal war of aggression, the supreme international
> crime of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. And it was based
> upon lies. Here is Harold Pinter:
>
> "As every single person here knows, the justification for the invasion of
> Iraq was that Saddam Hussein possessed a highly dangerous body of weapons
> of mass destruction, some of which could be fired in 45 minutes, bringing
> about appalling devastation. We were assured that was true. It was not
> true. We were told that Iraq had a relationship with Al Quaeda and shared
> responsibility for the atrocity in New York of September 11th 2001. We were
> assured that this was true. It was not true. We were told that Iraq
> threatened the security of the world. We were assured it was true. It was
> not true."
>
> https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates
> /2005/pinter-lecture-e.html
>
> This is hardly disputable. Needless to say that nobody of any importance
> was ever taken to account for this monstrous crime.
>
> Powell's lies, Bush's lies, Rice's lies, Cheney's lies, Judith Miller's
> lies, Michael Gordon's lies... Together with Miller, Gordon channeled the
> government's war propaganda and sold it to the world as independent
> reporting by the "paper of record."
>
> Until very recently, Michael Gordon wrote for the NYT about, amongst other
> things, chemical weapons attacks in Syria as chief military correspondent.
> That is really all you need to know about the credibility of that paper's
> coverage of geopolitical events.
>
> How otherwise intelligent and knowledgeable people can uncritically
> believe anything the NYT writes on the subject of geopolitics (Libya,
> Syria, Ukraine, Russia) after the debacle of the Iraq War, while at the
> same time accepting the fact that Seymour Hersh cannot publish in the US
> anymore and Robert Parry and Counterpunch are on a McCarthyite WP-published
> ProPorNot list of "bona fide'useful idiots'" of Russian propaganda" without
> question is beyond me -- which is perhaps due to the fact that I am living
> neither in the United States (or the Federal Republic) of Amnesia nor in
> Oceania.
>
> The NYT cooking section, on the other hand, is quite good.
>
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