[lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26

[Joseph Wanzala]

One of the central points argued by Griffin and others is that the 9-11 
attacks provided a pretext for the war on Afghanistan, which had among other 
things to do with gaining strategic control over that region (Afghanistan 
being positioned between Central Asia and the oil rich former Soviet 
Republics). Falk wrote the foreward to Griffin's book *after* his article in 
the Nation in which he supported the intervention in Afghanistan. While Falk 
does not address his earlier position on Afghanistan, by writing the 
foreward, he is either contradicting himself (which I doubt) or changing his 
position. So, Griffin's book, whether you view it as conspiracy theory or 
not, *has* moved Falk in a more progressive direction. So you obviously have 
no point other than to attack 'conspiracism' which as far as I can tell, is 
a phenomenon which occurs chiefly in the mind of  Chip Berlet and his 
dittoheads.


>From: Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu>
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>Subject: [lbo-talk] Democracy Now 5/26
>Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 12:32:59 -0500
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>that book by griffin is given an intro by richard falk. interesting, he
>supported the bombing of afghanistan. i thought conspiracy theory was
>supposed to lead leftists to more progressive politics?
>
>steve
>
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