<html> <head> <style> P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body><div style="text-align: left;">Monbiot's assertion that 9-11 researchers have been a 'boon' for Bush etc and destroy(ed) the progressive movements credibility is patently false and silly. How an challenging the very basis of everything the Bush administration has set out to do be a 'boon' to the Bush gang? This view seems to be based on a perverse need by some on the left to be seen to be conforming - it is amazing that so-called leftists remain loyal to the Bush administration on this question despite their record of mendacity, like a desperate spouse irratonally hanging on to their abusive, lying and cheating partner - It would be one thing if 'progressives' had actually done some independent investigation of their own into 9-11. Instead all they do is pledge fealty to the official story and attack those who do not. I will assume you guys area all voting for Guiliani and his '9-11' plaform ( see hilarious onion article at:  http://www.theonion.com/content/node/58750 ) A few months ago Doug conceded that he has some questions about 9-11 - and I told him then - welcome to the ranks of conspiracizers. If 9-11 was indeed carried out by Osama and Co, then don't we have a responsibilty to understand precisely how the operation was carried out? Instead, progressives (or radicals) have latched onto, ie taken cover under the work being done by liberals. The idea that the 9-11 crowd are liberals is preposterous. Peter Dale Scott, Michel Chussodovsky, Stan Goff, Peter Phillips William Blum etc. are hardly 'liberals'. Monbiot's view is also contradictory given that some of the leading advocates of the peak oil idea - michael ruppert and michel chussodovsky are also leading 9-11 reseachers and have cited monbiot's work extensively. <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120303_bottom_barrel.html" target="_blank">http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/120303_bottom_barrel.html</a>, <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MON20060907&articleId=3175" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MON20060907&articleId=3175</a> , meanwhile, Alex Cockburn has rubbished the idea of peak oil <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10152005.html" target="_blank">http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10152005.html</a> - this does not stop Monbiot from borrowing Cockburn's term 'high priest' to refer to David Ray Griffin. I wonder what Monbiot thinks of the effort Cockburn has put into undermining Monbiot's own work? Joe W.</div> <hr id="stopSpelling">> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:32:51 +0000 > From: heartfield@blueyonder.co.uk > To: lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org > Subject: [lbo-talk] Monbiot on truth and 9/11 conspiracy > > Monbiot is on to something, but he fails to understand that he is the > biggest conspiracy merchant out there. Ever week he writes the same > article about business interests hiding behind ever social question. Which > no doubt bears some relation to the truth, but it is not much of a > revelation. > > He does hint that there is something about the movements that he is > involved in - the anti war and the environmental - that predisposes them > to conspiracy theories. That is a worthwhile investigation. He should > pursue it further. > > > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </body> </html>