The Rocket and The Bomb

[Mark Kohut]

Reporting is facts that reveal reality. The way they are gathered can be
brilliant or not. Some reporting can be
better written than other reporting.

Thinking by using that reporting can be brilliant--or not. The thinking
involved in this piece is not.

Just for one bit (and I'm done with this),
The UN HAS ALSO DOCUMENTED MANy USES OF CHEMICAL WARFARE BY THE SYRIAN
GOVERNMENT which, in his "objectivity"--
the most hypocritical lie in this piece--he never mentions.

http://www.the-trench.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/UNSC-20170228-Syria-CW-debate.pdf

His sneering riding on half-truths is as bad as any he condemns....and the
world is full of real reporting and a logical perspective on it.





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-wes
>> tern-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.
>> > -
>> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>
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