The Rocket and The Bomb

[Jochen Stremmel]

Neither does Thomas say that there is reporting.

Can only reporting be brilliant?

2017-05-03 14:58 GMT+02:00 ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>:

> 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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