... and Chomsky and Raimondo and ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&add\ ress=125x127036 <http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&ad\ dress=125x127036>
I think this about nails it: Understandably enough, public intellectuals who are habituated to conjunctural crises in which their oppositional function was understood by all concerned, and who have in addition made a lifelong habit of ignoring or belittling political analyses which incorporate deep-political factors, have resisted the gathering evidence that these very factors have been decisive in the political transformations pushed through since 9/11. Michael Keefer
