Jim, Consider WHY the Bush administration trumpets its conspriacy theory of a man in a cave and 19 accomplices? Perhaps it does so because it has been so effective as a propaganda weapon (but for how long, we'll see).
Paul Z. *************************************************************** THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001, P.Zarembka, ed, Elsevier, 2006 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume23.htm *************************************************************** On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Jim Devine wrote: > How does trumpeting a 911 conspiracy theory help unite the US and > world working classes and to raise class consciousness? How does it > empower minorities, women, gays and lesbians, or the resistance to US > imperialism in the US and around the world? How does it help to roll > back the PATRIOT act, to stop NSA spying, or to get US troops out of > Iraq? How does it help end and indeed reverse global warming and other > environmental destruction? what progressive effect does it have? > > On 6/13/06, Paul Zarembka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Louis Proyect wrote: > > > > > ... It diverts energy and time from > > > more profitable research based on established facts. It is a fact that US > > > imperialism maintains military bases in oil-producing Moslem countries run > > > by dictatorships. It is a fact that secular revolutionary thought and > > > activism went into a steep decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union. > > > It is a fact that political Islam embraces terrorism. > > > > But political U.S. does not? > > > > The U.S. did not fire bomb/nuke virtually every Japanese city except > > Kyoto? > > > > Try closer to home and wonder about the t-shirt I saw at native American > > reservations south of Buffalo: "We've fought terrorism for 500 years" > > (approx. recall). > > > > Paul Z. > > > > *************************************************************** > > THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11-2001, P.Zarembka, ed, Elsevier, 2006 > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/volume23.htm > > *************************************************************** > > > > > -- > Jim Devine / "Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also > mortis" -- Robert Heilbroner. > > >
