Part One Whereas mainstream ‘journalism’ about international affairs is thoroughly controlled by (and usually owned by) the aristocracy [the billionaire oligarchs] that control the government, and therefore such ‘journalism’ boosts the government regardless of which of the government's parties is in power (since they both are controlled by the aristocracy, instead of by the public such as they claim), a few of the alternative-news sites make serious attempts to present truthful news, and those few sites are more trustworthy than are any of the mainstream sites — or than are any of the sloppy ‘alt-news’ ones. Whereas all of the right-wing ‘alt-news’ press is conservative, and therefore ultimately supports the mainstream press’s view (the view that we live in a democracy, not in a dictatorship, and that ‘our’ military fights for ‘the right side’ — even though it creates mayhem around the world (such as those recent examples), in the propagandistic name of national ‘defense’ and supporting ‘freedom and democracy’), some of the left-wing ‘alt-news’ press actually do likewise, by their own form of sloppy thinking. The focus here will be on the left-wing type of sloppy-thinking ‘alt-news’ media, because all of the right-wing type is basically conservative and therefore is ultimately supportive of the aristocracy — like the mainstream press are (even if in different ways). It is full of unsupported assumptions and allegations, key ones of which are false. For examples: Corbett (5:40) “They [the ‘dancing Israelis’] had been sent there to document the event [the 9/11 attacks on the WTC].” He repeats that (as will be proven here) false assumption at 9:10-. Then, he alleges (13:40-) “The FBI were convinced that these spies knew about 9/11 in advance,” but presents no evidence to back up this (as will be proven here to be false) allegation. Israel is an apartheid state, and so should be abandoned by all nations (like South Africa was when it was apartheid) regardless, but prejudiced persons' falsehoods are falsehoods, not facts — and these falsehoods hide the real source of the 9/11 attacks — and so protect the actual guilty parties. [dropcap]A[/dropcap] credible journalist won’t report speculation. Speculation might subsequently be proven false. To publicize false allegations is to prejudice the public; only bad can come from it. What’s said in speculation (such as reporting anyone in authority saying, at the first heat of an alleged event, such a thing — actually tentative and only speculative — as “A truckload of explosives was discovered around the George Washington Bridge”), is something that a credible journalist, working for a credible news-medium, simply won’t do. And only a public who likewise don’t care much about truth would even want them to report speculation as being instead fact — not even if the ‘news’ being reported is someone else being quoted as passing his speculation off as being ‘fact’. Someone else’s stating his mere speculation as being instead fact is no excuse for reporting the statement. A public that cares a lot about truth won’t subscribe to ‘news’media that are such fakes as that. Someone else’s mistakes are no ‘justification’ for one’s own. There was no basis yet, for reporting, “A truckload of explosives was discovered around the George Washington Bridge.” It was not at that time — or ever — a confirmed allegation. A confirmed allegation would instead have been something like “Police somewhere in nearby New Jersey are said to be inspecting a vehicle to determine whether it contains explosives.” For a good example of a video that I have, as of yet, found to be 100% truthful, and which was authentically original, published or posted to youtube barely two weeks after the incredibly complex and historically important event that it chronicled and explained, and which event is, even today, universally denied both by the U.S. regime and by the U.S. aristocracy’s ‘news’ media — that event being U.S. President Obama’s coup in Ukraine, which replaced the democratically elected government by a racist-fascist anti-Russian one in February 2014, and so kicked off the new Cold War, which Trump had promised to end but apparently can’t — see this ten-minute video; and, then, if that strikes your interest, see also an equally brilliant and truthful hour-long video-compilation, whose first ten minutes is that one (which first ten minutes can therefore be skipped if you don’t want to see the first one twice), this video, which hour-long compilation still managed to be published less than a month after the coup. The genius behind the basic ten-minute video is Aaron Hawkins, who is certainly one of the very great investigative journalists in our time. And that video is perhaps the best he has ever done. Even today, I find it stunning and the best 10-minute introduction anywhere, to Barack Obama’s biggest single curse upon the world, a curse worthy of George W. Bush, if not even worse. That video isn’t merely great journalism; it is great history, presented almost in real time, as a piece of video investigative journalism. It’s breathtaking — and it wouldn’t be so if it weren’t also true. APPENDIX
INTRODUCTION
Deliberate disinformation by establishment sources, massive ignorance among the people, and the freedom to circulate wild opinions and facts side by side have created an environment of monumental confusion in which only the super rich benefit.
ISRAEL and 9/11 (1)
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US SUPPORT FOR VIOLENT NEONAZIS IN UKRAINE: THE INVISIBLE STORY
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
(1) Editor’s Note: In our view, while the author is correct in saying Israel or “the Jews” are not the main or sole cause of 9/11, there is little doubt Israel was and remains a determinant and prominent actor and enabler of many policies of this nature pursued by the US plutocracy at its most devious levels. In the final analysis, it’s simply a class question that easily transcends national allegiances.
The mainstream newsmedia aren’t like that: they hide their prejudices. But they feed the public’s prejudices, because the press are virtually prohibited from reporting the truths that would need to be reported in order for public affairs to make sense to the broad public. Hypocrisy thus reigns in the press, just as it does in the White House. This is why the public are confused.
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A growing list of evils that had long been advocated/pursued by the right wing has been successfully marketed to (middle class) liberals since the late 1970s. This certainly includes the bigotry that drives today’s anti-Israel (anti-Jewish) discussion in the media of the liberal bourgeoisie, marketed as the “progressive perspective.” Trying to claim that US involvement in the Mideast is driven by it is some sort of hard right dedication to the rights of the Jewish people is insane, in light of their long, solid record of anti-Semitism. Today, Israel is our scapegoat, enabling us to avoid responsibility for the distrust… Read more »
As the US authorities had quickly released the five Israelis (at least two of them members of Mossad) and allowed them to leave the country (maybe even had them flown out?) it’s perfectly obvious that there would have to be an official denial that they had foreknowledge of the event and that there no explosives had been found in the van. Eric Zuesse’s desperate desire to absolve Israel/Jews from complicity in 9/11 – despite the clear evidence – allows him to make the naive conclusion that the FBI denials can be trusted. The “dancing Israelis” were seen giving ‘high-fives’ at… Read more »
Corbett isn’t left-wing, he’s libertarian/anarchist. So you immediately start with false information. As to his “Dancing Israelis” piece, in some ways it is shoddy, in that it is very incomplete and he gets the conclusion wrong, that (paraphrasing) “they tried to be seen to alert law enforcement.”
But your above piece also is shoddy because you have no genuine understanding of the FBI Newark Full Field Investigation files. What you quote, i.e. the 2003 dismissal, is irrelevant. If you would like to have a real, detailed explanation of these, respond to this so I know that you read comments.
“FALSE INFORMATION” IMPLIES INTENT TO DECEIVE, NOT THE PURPOSE OF THESE EDITORS, TO MY KNOWLEDGE. Mistaken or erroneous is a different thing. If this is erroneous, as you note, I would send TGP the material c/o of the editors and it will be reviewed. I know that for a fact. Try this, which I have used with good results: editors@GREANVILLEPOST.com