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Chip Berlet has an interesting page at the Public Eye website on this very
topic.
http://www.publiceye.org/top_conspire.html
I had him on my radio show to talk about 911 conspiracies. He recently
debated David Griffin on Democracy Now.
Eric
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> Is Progressive Conspiracism an Oxymoron?
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> Conspiracism often accompanies various forms of populism, and (Margaret)
> Canovan notes that "the image of a few evil men conspiring in secret
> against the people can certainly be found in the thinking of the U.S.
> People's Party, Huey Long, McCarthy, and others." Criticism of
> conspiracism, however, does not imply that there are not real
> conspiracies, criminal or otherwise. There certainly are real conspiracies
> throughout history. As Canovan argues:
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> "[o]ne should bear in mind that not all forms or cases of populism
> involve conspiracy theories, and that such theories are not always false.
> The railroad kings and Wall Street bankers hated by the U.S. Populists,
> the New Orleans Ring that Huey Long attacked, and the political bosses
> whom the Progressives sought to unseat--all these were indeed small groups
> of men wielding secret and irresponsible power."
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> The US political scene is littered with examples of illegal political,
> corporate, and government conspiracies such as Watergate, the Iran/Contra
> scandal, and the systematic looting of the savings and loan industry.
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> The dilemma for the left is that right-wing populist organizers weave
> these systemic and institutional failures into a conspiracist narrative
> that blames "secret elites." In a lengthy article on snowballing
> conspiracism in The New Yorker, Michael Kelly called this "fusion
> paranoia." With the rise of "info-tainment" news programs and talk shows,
> hard right conspiracism, especially about alleged government misconduct,
> jumps into the corporate media with increasing regularity. As Kelly
> observes," It is not remarkable that accusations of abuse of power should
> be leveled against Presidents-particularly in light of Vietnam, Watergate,
> and Iran-Contra. But now, in the age of fusion paranoia, there is no
> longer any distinction made between credible charges and utterly unfounded
> slanders."
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> Read Entire Article Here:
> http://pnews.org/ArT/TrU/CriticismOfConspiracism.shtml
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