At 07:02 AM 8/28/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 06:46:25 -0400 (EDT) Michael Pollak
><mpollak at panix.com> writes:
>>
>>On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>>> A couple of people asked me to summarize my interview with Mr
>>> Stratfor, George Friedman, last night....Among other things he said:
>>
>>He also completely sidestepped the ex-CIA question except to say he
>>was an
>>academic of long standing (aren't all CIA analysts)? And he never
>>explained how they get the funds to support the kind of staff that
>>could
>>turn out this much writing per day. Although I suppose that latter is
>>no
>>more mysterious than Yahoo economics. They certainly turn out a
>>distinctive, addictive and hard to duplicate product.
>>
>>Oh, one last mystery -- does any know if the George Friedman that
>>wrote
>>_The Intelligence Edge: How to Profit from the Information Age_ and
>>_The
>>Future of War: Power, Technology and American World Dominance in the
>>21st
>>Century_ in the last two years is the same George Friedman that wrote
>>_The
>>Political Philosophy of the Frankfurt School_ in 1981? Sounds like
>>the
>>perfect intellectual trajectory for a liberal CIA analyst to me :o)
>
>Even more perfect when you consider that one of the leading
>Frankfurters, Herbert Marcuse was an OSS analyst during
> WW II and that when the OSS was replaced by the CIA,
>he worked for them for several years. Hence the CIA-baiting
>of Marcuse by the Progressive Labor Party during the 1960s.
>
> Jim Farmelant
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>__________________________________________________________________________
>>Michael Pollak................New York
>>City..............mpollak at panix.com
>>
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