On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Patrick Bond wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
I notice that a while back, you and other fans of "unfolding
crisis" were citing bourgeois sources for support. Now that most
bourgeois sources think that the worst of the financial crisis is
probably over, you're not citing bourgeois sources any more, eh?
This must be a difficult time for you, eh Doug:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/18/
cnrbs118.xml
RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
Aside from the fact that this is one forecast among many, not a
report of what happened, consider the source. Great moments from the
works of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:
<http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n46_v13/ai_20083166>
What radicalized me was my experiences in Central America,
particularly in Nicaragua, because I could see that what the press
was writing was not true about the Sandinistas.
Insight: What were they writing that wasn't true?
AEP: Well, they had a love affair with the revolution. They were all
sitting around Managua and going to parties with Sandinista
officials. There was a very romantic side to it all. But out there in
the countryside, the Sandinistas were doing horrible things to the
campesinos. They were rounding them up in collectives. Anybody who
resisted was very harshly punished, and people were being killed in
quite large numbers.
[...]
[In America,] you do have a few people sort of valiantly fighting--
the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal....
[...]
Insight: Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, already has been
compared to Clinton in style. Now that fund-raising problems have
surfaced there as well as here are the similarities becoming more clear?
AEP: Not at all. Tony Blair is a gentleman. Do I need to say more?
He's an honorable man.
[...]
Favorite Books: Paul Johnson's Modern Times; Burke's Reflections on
the Revolution in France; and Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire.
----
<http://192.80.61.73/WebVAX/ET/parks11Dec94.html>
Murder link suspected in Clinton probe
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
THE Whitewater investigation has broadened its net beyond the
Arkansas business dealings of Bill and Hillary Clinton to include
inquiries into the unsolved murder of Jerry Parks, the former
security chief for the Clinton campaign headquarters who was shot
outside Little Rock last year.
The fact that the Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating
a murder is likely to cause consternation in Washington, where many
still treat Whitewater as a minor issue.
Mr Parks, the owner of a Little Rock private security firm, was the
victim of a mob-style hit on Sept 26, 1993. He had long-standing ties
to the late Vince Foster, the White House Deputy Counsel found dead
in a Virginia park last year. Sources close to Mr Starr's
investigation team say testimony has been taken on two occasions from
Mr Parks's widow, Jane.
The Parks family have accused Little Rock Police of orchestrating a
cover-up after the detective on the case was removed. In exclusive
interviews with The Sunday Telegraph earlier this year, Mrs Parks
said that her husband had kept sensitive files on Mr Clinton dating
back to 1984. One concerned a series of drug parties allegedly
attended by Governor Clinton. A second stemmed from work undertaken
by Mr Parks in 1987 involving night surveillance of the governor.
Mrs Parks alleges that the files were stolen in July 1993 in a well
planned burglary that disabled the house's sophisticated alarm
system. Mr Parks was murdered two months later.
The Whitewater investigation has reached a critical stage. Last week
Mr Starr announced that he had secured guilty pleas from Webster
Hubbell on felony charges. Mr Hubbell, golfing friend of Mr Clinton
when he was Governor of Arkansas, was a former law partner of Mrs
Clinton.
In a separate development, the New York Times reported yesterday that
a second investigation which was looking into gifts accepted by the
outgoing Agriculture Secretary, Mike Espy, has evolved into a full-
scale probe of the Arkansas poultry king, Don Tyson.
The Sunday Telegraph broke the story last October that Tyson was
under investigation in the 1980s by the federal Drug Enforcement
Administration for possible trafficking.
---
<http://www.salon.com/news/1997/12/23news.html>
The book's first 100-odd pages accuse federal agencies of knowing
complicity in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that took 169 lives.
According to Evans-Pritchard, it wasn't just the work of terrorist
freelancers like the convicted Timothy McVeigh and his alleged
accomplice Terry Nichols: It was, he suspects, an ATF/FBI "sting"
gone bad, followed by a Justice Department cover-up. He doesn't
directly accuse Clinton of being part of the plot, but does hint
darkly that he has profited politically from the tragedy.
[...]
When necessary, Evans-Pritchard resorts to even more questionable
methods. He quotes a Little Rock funeral director named Tom
Wittenberg asking, "What if there was no exit wound at all? ... I'm
telling you it's possible there wasn't." By way of support, in yet
another of the book's roughly 500 footnotes, Evans-Pritchard claims
to have a tape recording to that effect, surreptitiously made by an
unidentified Arkansas private eye. Puzzled, I phoned Wittenberg, an
old friend and neighbor for more than 20 years. To my knowledge, the
Tommy Wittenberg I know has never spoken to any reporter about a body
entrusted to his care. Sure enough, Wittenberg insisted vehemently to
me that Evans-Pritchard made the whole thing up. He not only refused
to be interviewed, but told the reporter that out of personal
feelings for the deceased, he'd never looked at Vince Foster's body
at all.
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