What is the real EFFECT of a Website like Z? It is to achieve the reputation for militancy and then to undermine resistance to the sharpest acts of Imperialism. Thus the patron saint of Z, Noam Chomsky, during the bombing of Yugoslavia went on Z and the leftish Pacifica Radio station and said the bombing was bad because it gave the monstrous Serbs the eexcuse and reason to carry out even more atrocities against Albanians. A lie! A lie uttered without even saying the bombing was a war crime. If you doubt me, you can listen to it on Pacifica, before it gets pulled. Go to http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/moreviews.htm That is the page on the Common Dreams website called "Kosovo Crisis: More Views" Then do a word search for Chomsky. That will take you to a file entitled "Noam Chomsky Discusses NATO Bombing." Click on that - you will need to have Real Player installed, to hear it. Keep in mind, this station potentially reaches 500,000 - this is the very popular Goodman show, listened to by hoards of leftish people. Ask yousrself: after hearing and believing Chomsky's crap, would you want to organize aganst the bombing? Or wouldn't you say you had more important stuff to do? That this was a fight between monsters? And what you have just heard on Pacifica is the same thing Chomsky and Albert and Shalom and Said said on Z. So the bones that are tossed to radicalism at Z - opposition to corporations, love of ecology, whatever - are used in a very important practical sense to create credibility which then allows Z to UNDERMINE THOSE IN THE IMPERIALIST COUNTRIES WHO WANT TO ORGANIZE OPPOSITION TO THE REAL LIVING CRIMES OF IMPERIALISM. Sorry for the caps. It makes me scream. By pushing this line of "the bombing has unleashed the monstrous serbs and hence it is bad" Chomsky and the others at Z were far more harmful than the mainstream media precisely because no leftist would believe the mainstream media's justification for war - but when a Chomsky (or on a smaller scale, a Chomsky-groupie like Albert) says this same stuff it has credibility. Jared _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
