The Rocket and The Bomb

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Why trust Howard over a NYT journalist or a Guardian journalist? The
Times has brilliance, from time to time, so does the Guardian. Not
that we should trust either, generally, on geopolitics or Washington
politics, though they do a decent job on both. Also, there's nothing
brilliant in Howard's reporting here. In fact, there is no reporting
in what you describe as brilliant.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Thomas Eckhardt
<thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your recollections and thoughts, Monte!
>
> As for the present situation, this may be of interest:
>
> http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/medialibrary/2017/04/21/94c24315/Beyond%20the%20Nuclear%20Threshold.pdf
>
> Including a reference to an incident in 1995 that I was not aware of:
>
> 'A frightening example of things going terribly wrong was provided by the
> 1995 accident
> involving the launch of a Norwegian geodesic rocket, which was taken for a
> Trident 2
> missile, triggering the Russian early warning system. The event was urgently
> reported to
> the president, the “Cheget” system was activated, and Boris Yeltsin, as he
> said later, for
> several minutes held his finger “on the nuclear button” – until the incident
> was settled.'
>
> The tensions are, of course, fueled by a constant barrage of atrocity
> propaganda in the service of the empire:
>
> https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/lets-call-western-media-coverage-of-syria-for-what.html
>
> Howard's brilliant article makes abundantly clear why many people on the
> left, including myself, nowadays do not trust the NYT (or the Washington
> Post or the Guardian or the Zeit or the Spiegel) at all when it comes to
> geopolitics: "They keep pumping out the propaganda, day in, day out, never
> stopping to reflect on the potential consequences."
>
> The potential consequences, of course, include thermonuclear war.
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