The Rocket and The Bomb

[Jesse Gooch]

What was that translation of “Ein Feuilleton schreiben heißt auf einer Glatze Locken drehen” Sorry if it’s on there already, I’m catching up on this and my thread is a bit jumbled.

From: <owner-pynchon-l at waste.org> on behalf of Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 9:50 AM
To: Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
Cc: ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>, Pynchon Mailing List <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: The Rocket and The Bomb

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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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