The Rocket and The Bomb

[ish mailian]

The Press is selling a product. There is Reporting and Journalism in
the NYT and in the Guardian and some of it is brilliant.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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