I am distressed to hear that KPFA, a supposedly liberal and open-minded institution, is denying Mike Ruppert the right to be heard. Have any reasons been advanced for this censorship?
I have known Mike Ruppert quite well for at least two years. He is a zealous seeker after truth; and especially recently, has unearthed a number of important stories which he was the first to break. One of them, about Attorney-General Ashcroft's failure to recuse himself in a DOJ investigation of Exxon-Mobil in Central Asia, is extremely important. I have posted it on my own website at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/qfmobil.html.
Mike Ruppert goes after breaking stories. In so doing, he runs the risk that some of these stories will look different with the benefit of hindsight. However I am not aware of anything he has said, written, or done recently, that would justify denying him access to the airwaves of KPFA. If KPFA is to persist in this policy, they should explain their reasons for doing so immediately. I would request that they send their explanation both to him and to me.
Yours sincerely,
Peter Dale Scott English Department, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720. Address: 2740 Belrose Ave., Berkeley CA 94705. http://www.questionsquestions.net/documents/kpfa_ruppert.html
>From: Michael Pugliese <michael098762001 at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: Re: [lbo-talk] the imperialism of the liberal
>Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:08:17 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
>
> Of coarse, we know that congressional investigators like this Winter
>fellow or Jack Blum, who blurbed a book by Gaeton Fonzi, who worked for the
>congressional committee that went over the JFK assasination again in the
>70's or 80's, that exhaustively looked at the activities of JMWAVE, which
>was the CIA's station coordinating the Cuban exiles in the early 60's, why
>they only do this, only to more effectively hide THE TRUTH.
>http://www.cuban-exile.com/doc_001-025/doc0019b.html
>
>Scott, Peter Dale and Jonathan Marshall
>
>Cocaine Politics : Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America
>
>Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1992. Soft Cover.
>Near Fine/No Jacket. Green printer wrapper. Now in protective wrap. From
>the review of Jonathan Winter, Counsel, Kerry Subcommittee on Terrorism and
>Narcotics: "Cocaine Politics tells the sordid story of how elements of our
>own government went to work with narcotic traffickers, and then fought to
>suppress the truth about what they had done. The ways and means by which
>U.S. Government officials joined with cocaine criminals, then engaged in a
>largely-successful cover-up to hide the truth, are meticulously documented
>by Marshall and Scott, making Cocaine Politics essential reading for anyone
>interested in understanding the real Iran/Contra story.". ISBN:0520077814
>Bookseller Inventory #12882
>http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookSearch
>
>Michael Pugliese
>
>
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