The Rocket and The Bomb

[ish mailian]

Brilliance is rare.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:33 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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