On May 13, 2010, at 7:14 AM, LBO News from Doug Henwood wrote:
> Anyway, I’ll drop this topic after this. But aside from the details of the 9/11 obsession—the melting point of steel-type arguments—I really don’t get the political point of it. Is American imperial power just a ruse? A trick by a small cabal of plotters? Or something that permeates the structures of global politics, economics, and culture—even the insides of our minds?
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Are they mutually exclusive?
> Well, Dick Cheney is gone, and things go on pretty much as before, folks. Or do the plotters enjoy seamless and leakless transitions of power?
An interesting piece on Karl Rove in the new RS 1105 by Tim Dickinson.
martin