9/11: Pathetic "Left" Disinformation

The ravings of Alexander Cockburn / CounterPunch (among others) and the Limits of Permissable Discourse Concerning 9/11

Crimes of the State

 

The miserable depths of inanity are upon us. Rock bottom is in view over at the "left" and "alternative" press.

Not only has September 11th been completely covered up by a White House that would not allow an independent investigation for over a year, but they then rigged the investigation staffing such that no one could honestly apply the "independent" label with a clean conscience.

That's not a "cult" secret, is it?

Is such an observation only possible by the UFO "nuts?"

Given hundreds, perhaps thousands of incriminating facts, facts that cast suspicion on the Executive Branch, these alleged opposition journals will not touch it. More than that, they actively demonize, ridicule and childishly mock the 70 million or so of us Americans who are not satisfied with the government's explanation of September 11th 2001.

Alexander Cockburn's CounterPunch calls itself "America's Best Political Newsletter", but on 9/11 issues it amounts to little more than the hysterical fits of a toddler. Here is a sampling:

"Flying Saucers and the Decline of the Left"

"They find it in the 9/11 conspiracy cult..."

"I think the nuttishness stems from despair and political infantilism."

"There's no worthwhile energy to transfer from such kookery."

Cockburn is malicious and sarcastic, yet uninformed and ignorant. He comments on the more outrageous claims and suppositions of the 9/11 crowd, such as a missile hitting the Pentagon. He does not comment on the far more verifiable and incriminating warnings received by the White House, their experiences at the Genoa G8 summit, nor the Pakistani intelligence funding connection, Able Danger, nor protected drug smuggling at the "flight school" in Venice, Florida, to say nothing of numerous FBI terrorism investigations that were "shut down" before the attacks.

Seeing how it looks like the "Pentagate" flap was deliberately designed into the plot for just that reason: to open up skeptics to ridicule, Cockburn is now actively working to promote the government's anti-conspiracy agenda and to blindly defend them. For what motive, I cannot say. I can say that he should, and probably does, know better.

More evidence of "left" duplicity is that ideas like Bush operatives carrying out the 9/11 attacks -- planting explosives and guiding missiles -- are deliberately conflated with the idea of Bush's regime simply letting it happen, not arresting the perpetrators beforehand. These two scenarios are completely different, yet these "left" journals treat them as identical. In response to these two very different scenarios:

"...Bush either masterminded it [the 9/11 attacks] or knew in advance and let it happen. " (emphasis added)

Cockburn's response is simply to dismiss either possibility as "nuttishness" and "kookery."

Here is a partial list of warnings the White House received during the summer of 2001; bear in mind that this is limited to only what was released to the public:

"Newspapers in Germany, France, Russia and London reported in the months before September 11th of a blizzard of warnings delivered to the Bush administration from all points on the compass. The German intelligence service BND warned American and Israeli agencies that terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft and use them as weapons to attack important American targets. Egypt warned of a similar plane-based plot against Bush during the G-8 summit in Genoa last June, a warning taken so seriously that anti-aircraft batteries were placed around Columbus Airport in Italy."

"Last August (2001), Russian intelligence services notified the CIA that 25 terrorist pilots had been trained for suicide missions, and Putin himself confirmed that this warning was delivered "in the strongest possible terms" specifically regarding threats to airports and government buildings. In that same month, the Israeli security agency Mossad issued a warning to both the FBI and CIA that up to 200 bin Laden followers were planning a major assault on America, aimed at vulnerable targets. The Los Angeles Times later confirmed via unnamed US officials that the Mossad warnings had been received." -Newsweek, May 20, 2002

"U.S. President George W. Bush will not stay with other world leaders because of fear of terrorist attack." -G8 summit death shocks leaders, CNN, July 21, 2001

"Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York. (...) CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives." -August 6, 2001, Presidents' Daily Briefing (heavily redacted unclassified version)

"His testimony followed statements in court Monday by Harry Samit, the FBI agent who arrested Moussaoui in Minnesota, that FBI superiors ignored his repeated warnings that Moussaoui might be a terrorist interested in hijacking an airliner. The bureau's failures thwarted an opportunity to prevent the attacks, he said.

Under cross-examination by defense attorney MacMahon, Samit acknowledged that he warned higher-ups and others in the government at least 70 times that Moussaoui was a terrorist, and detailed much of his information on Moussaoui in a 24-page document CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart reports." -(emphasis added), CBS News , FBI Big: Moussaoui Barely Discussed In Testimony, FBI Supervisor Says He Spent About 20 Seconds On Case, March 21, 2006

"(CBS) Two of the Sept. 11 hijackers who lived in San Diego in 2000 rented a room from a man who reportedly worked as an undercover FBI informant, highlighting the lack of cooperation by the nation's law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Newsweek magazine reports that Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi lived with a "tested" undercover "asset" who had been working closely with the FBI office in San Diego." -CBS News, Hijackers Lived With FBI Informant, Sept. 9. 2002

"... the case of Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, believed to have participated in the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77, which hit the Pentagon on 9/11. Despite being on a CIA watch list because of connections to Al Qaeda, the two lived openly in San Diego, California for a year or more." -FBI inspector general’s report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks, Patrick Martin, 15 June 2005

"[The Phoenix Memo] was sent to the attention of six people at FBI headquarters and two more at the New York Division. The recipients included personnel and leadership of both the Usama Bin Laden Unit and the Radical Fundamentalists Unit, the latter comprising a separate group of agents assigned to investigate Islamist militants not directly affiliated to Al Qaeda.

None of the agents who received the EC took any serious action. Several did not even read it. The report attributes the inaction and inattention to the lack of resources committed to anti-terrorist activities in the summer of 2001 [in the midst of all those threat warnings!]. For instance, there was only a single research analyst assigned to the FBI’s Bin Laden Unit in 2001, and she was transferred to another unit in July 2001." FBI inspector general’s report: more evidence of government complicity in 9/11 attacks, Patrick Martin, 15 June 2005

"Hijacker Mohamed Atta is put under surveillance by the CIA while living in Germany. [Agence France-Presse, 9/22/2001; Focus (Munchen), 9/24/2001; Berliner Zeitung (Berlin), 9/24/2001]

He is “reportedly observed buying large quantities of chemicals in Frankfurt, apparently for the production of explosives [and/or] for biological warfare.” “The US agents reported to have trailed Atta are said to have failed to inform the German authorities about their investigation,” even as the Germans are investigating many of his associates.

“The disclosure that Atta was being trailed by police long before 11 September raises the question why the attacks could not have been prevented with the man’s arrest.” [Observer, 9/30/2001]

A German newspaper adds that Atta is able to get a visa into the US on May 18. (...) However, a congressional inquiry later reports that the US “intelligence community possessed no intelligence or law enforcement information linking 16 of the 19 hijackers [including Atta] to terrorism or terrorist groups.” [US Congress, 9/20/2002]

In 2005, after accounts of the Able Danger program learning Atta’s name become news, newspaper account will neglect to mention this prior report about Atta being known by US intelligence. For instance, the New York Times will report, “The account [about Able Danger] is the first assertion that Mr. Atta, an Egyptian who became the lead hijacker in the plot, was identified by any American government agency as a potential threat before the Sept. 11 attacks”(see August 9, 2005) . [New York Times, 8/9/2005] -Center for Cooperative Research

Helping to Muddy the Waters

The Defense (sic) Department deliberately released questionable evidence of the alleged "Flight 77" crash, pushing in our faces inconclusive images, and refusing to release all of the images. Arbitrarily witholding evidence is not a problem in Cockburn's view, or David Corn's (The Nation's) view, or Matthew Rothschild's (Progressive Magazine's) view, or Michael Albert's (Z-Magazine) view, or AlterNet's view, or In These Times' view, to name but a few. It's okay to withold evidence of what happened at the Pentagon on 9-11, to those editors; it's just not okay to talk about it.

See this website for a detailed discussion of "Left Gatekeeper" connections to foundation funding: ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?

Enough ink has been wasted on this Pentagon crash distraction, but nearly none on the more substantial points that I referred to above. For that reason alone (highly selective and restrictive treatment of the 9/11 evidence), I do not trust the editors and institutions named herein to tell me the truth. Nor should you.

Another telling sign that some of these authors' motives are questionable is their take on the John F. Kennedy conspiracy. Cockburn would have us believe in a "magic bullet", as does Noam Chomsky and other Warren Commission defenders.

To most Americans, the Kennedy assassination is ancient history, and they believe whatever the TV told them last about it. Some of us know better, however, and have seen Kennedy's autopsy photos (grisly), seen the statements of the Dallas doctors who treated him, and have carefully watched the Zapruder film where the kill shot enters the front above Kennedy's right eyebrow and knocks the president's head backward, exiting the back of his head and killing him. We also saw the crowd of brave, honest American bystanders rushing toward the Grassy Knoll fence in pursuit of an armed assassin.

Those "progressive" authors' stands on the Kennedy killing will show pretty conclusively how independent and/or investigative they are. The Warren Commission covered up the Kennedy slaying, and served as a rough guide for the 9-11 Commission.

Senator Max Cleland, a 9-11 Commissioner himself, who resigned over the nature of the Commission, has said:

"This is the most serious independent investigation since the Warren Commission. And after watching History Channel shows on the Warren Commission last night, the Warren Commission blew it. I'm not going to be part of that. I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions. I'm not going to be part of political pressure to do this or not do that. I'm not going to be part of that. This is serious." -Max Cleland, Interview, Salon Friday 21 November 2003

Serious yes, but apparently not to the "Left Gatekeepers." The real nagging question is WHY? Why aren't these alleged opposition forces seizing upon evidence of high crimes and treason, obstruction of justice, exposing the nation to harm? What is it with an 'opposition' that refuses to use their best weapons to fight back against obvious tyrants?

I have a feeling that it's a lot more murky in those waters than suspected.

The first, and most devastating article about the September 11th cover-up in the "alternative press" was written by Nafeez M. Ahmed, and is called:
9/11 "Conspiracies" and the Defactualisation of Analysis
How Ideologues on the Left and Right Theorise Vacuously to Support Baseless Supposition. If you haven't read this lenghy response to the left gatekeeper crowd (here's looking at you, Cockburn), it is worth the time. Ahmed went on to write other meticulously researched books that challenge the White House's 9/11 claims and its "war on terror" paradigm.

The CounterPunch hystrionics are that much more hypocritical considering that someone there let slip this article: September Song, A Review of "The New Pearl Harbor". That article's author Mark Estrin, writes:

"(Professor David Ray) Griffin can't put the pieces together. In this, he is honest, and calls on us to be the same. All he can do is call for more authentic investigations -- not the cover-ups currently underway -- to confront these crucial issues. And this, too, we must do."

Two years after that article, these "crucial issues" are not solved, not investigated, and not much has changed except for increased public awareness of them. The gatekeepers still refuse to investigate further (except perhaps the "Pentagate" issue, as previously mentioned), and have taken to the rudest name calling and demonization tactics.

If they were honest journalists, they would feel some responsibility to provide a better narrative. They would seek the answers that remain "classified," and beyond the reach of the public. If the stories they receive in their email are erroneous, it is encumbent upon them to provide a better story, with a more solid factual basis, that includes all of the known facts related ot the attacks.. This has not happened.

If you bring up CIA influence, they call you "paranoid." Of course the FBI's COINTELPRO never happened: I personally made it up for my extraterrestrial contact novel. Project Mockingbird may have "owned" every journalist of any significance in America, according to CIA director William Colby, but that can't mean anything to us, can it? (They suicided Colby, by the way.)

It's beyond the realm of question that these outfits, the Counterpunch, Nation Magazine, Progressive Magazine Alternet, etc. are free to investigate and to print whatever they want. It's that they just choose not to, over and again, in the face of irrefutable evidence of government conspiracy and cover-up.

In CounterPunch's case, Cockburn postures as if he's defending "the left" by attacking 9/11 truthseekers. This is, of course, absurd on its face. Having lost his credentials with the 70 million who doubt the official story, Cockburn turns to his Marxist, Trotskyite roots to carve out a base of operations. Oppose capitalism, by letting BushCo. get away with treason! How does that work, exactly?

But 9/11 was never a right vs. left issue. There are those on the right and in the center calling loudly for impeachment as a precursor to real investigations and high treason trials. This is a movement independent of, and unreliant upon, the established and self-appointed guardians of permissable debate. It is making the Cockburns irrelevant, and that, I suspect, contributes to their hostility and belligerence.

Israelis Can't Be Mentioned?

Cockburn and several other lefty pundits write in opposition to predatory Zionism on a fairly regular basis. But the fact of 5 Mossad agents arrested on September 11th, while filming the Towers' destruction -- due to too much celebrating -- prompting a call to police, are unworthy of acknowledgement somehow.

"They are said to have had been caught videotaping the disaster and shouting in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery."
-5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy, Yossi Melman, Haaretz.

Add another 195 Israeli Mossad agents for a total of 200 arrested post 9/11, and we are still hearing nothing, nothing at all. It's not for lack of evidence that there is silence. It's something different.

I firmly believe that Israeli intelligence was not only involved in the attacks (which benefitted Israeli interests by aligning US foreign policy with Israeli foreign policy), but that they were required to be in order to insure the cover-up. No Democratic Party politician will go after Israel, not one. If Israel was somehow involved in the attacks, then the attacks must be covered up. It is as simple as that.

The 9/11 Truth Movement is in serious trouble though. Mocked and ridiculed in the opinion pages across the spectrum, they have unwittingly bought into unprovable theories and crafty provocations. Many can't prove half of what they say, and so it has become open-season on the movement as a whole.

It's the other half, however, the things we can prove, the things they cover-up and refuse to talk about which interest me. There are enough smoking guns still smoldering to warrant arrests, indictments, impeachments, a complete and total paradigm shift, if only the full population would have a chance to see the evidence that those at the top don't want to talk about.

The jury is still out. Awareness has increased greatly. Perhaps this film will help the movement break out with a more solid case against those who benefitted most from the crimes of September 11th, 2001. I remain hopeful that word will continue to spread, and a larger constituency will demand action.

Look into getting 9/11: Press For Truth broadcast on your local public access station. Promote it locally. Couldn't hurt, despite the shrill screeches of the "left" establishment press.

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"Alexander Cockburn's CounterPunch calls itself "America's Best Political Newsletter", but on 9/11 issues it amounts to little more than the hysterical fits of a toddler."

we're presented pre-designed and pigeonholed "managed" issues, frameworks and spectrum

Very advanced analysis is done to determine the course and direction of "public opinion" and the results of these studies are used to steer and shape (manipulate) people's perceptions all across the spectrum from far-right to far-left, from socialists to anarchists - every group, movement and mass of people are accounted for

some we see, most we do not - most people are blind to the shaping and steering of the group or movement they are involved with

various means are utilized to accomplish this from mass media and entertainment to educational institutions to cultural norms and society values to collectives and cooperatives

again most people are completely blind to this and when it's placed on the table of discussion they go into denial automaticly assuming the attempt represents a divisive attack - ie: an attempt of one group or belief system to subjugate the aims, goals or values of another

this is the most sublime level at which we're kept atomized from eachother, because this system of control plays on our deepest psychological vulnerabilities which are where our divisions are rooted to begin with

the fields of public relations and propaganda management rely heavily on this - the exploitation of psychological vulnerabilities

and both of these forces are being used the world over presently as never before, they are multi-billion dollar businesses and growing - one of the highest growth rates of any type of industry (along with prisons - corrections, defense - military - arms spending)

these industries are where the biggest chunk of spending pours into - "products" to enslave us, hurt us, kill us and keep us at eachother's throats, to distract us and occupy our time so that we have neither the data, time, energy or consensus to deal with the real source of our problems

problems which at the most basic level are common to us all..

It was obvious as it happened that the 9/11 Inside Job was perpetrated by the US government as there was no air defense. This Reichstag Fire was perpetrated by the US military, mostly the US Air Force, under the direction of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice & Giuliani. There were 4 war games occurring at the same time, some simulating the real event, making it impossible to distinguish the real from the fake, and removing our excellent air defense from New York City and Washington, DC. 9 of the alleged hijackers were alive on 9/12/01. The government admits it has no evidence that any of the alleged hijackers did anything or ever boarded any plane. The planes used to perpetrate this Reichstag Fire were on automatic pilot, guided by the US Air Force. The Twin Towers and Building 7, which was not hit by a plane, were brought down by demolition explosives and bombs, some of which are now believed to be hydrogen fusion bombs, causing very early deaths of rescue workers and their dogs, as well as the cleanup crew. World Trade Center's security was under the control of Bush's brother, Marvin Bush, and cousin, Wirt Walker III, whose security company conducted many evacuation drills including the weekend before 9/11/01, and that is when the charges were set. Thermate was found in the wreckage, and that substance comes from the military. Giuliani was sitting in his bunker in Building 7, a military building, filled with US military offices, the CIA, the Secret Service, the SEC which was then conducting an investigation of Enron, and much more, until he evacated in time for what he knew was planned demolition. The Pentagon was hit with a US missile and bombs placed inside on a side that was under construction and had offices housing an audit team exposing massive till-tapping from the miltiary budget. Flight 93 ended at the Cleveland airport and some other plane was shot down by the US Air Force over Pennsylvania. Cheney sat in his White House bunker coordinating the whole thing with Giuliani. Bush sat in his brother's Florida fiefdom reading a goat story to school children, after stating he saw the first plane crash on closed circuit TV, and was not evacuated by the Secret Service until a missile hit the Pentagon, at which time they followed the already known route to Air Force 1 and received no military escort while flying as they all knew this was an inside job. Ms.Standard Oil, Condolezza Rice, then security advisor, admitted on May 17, 2002 on CNN, and reported on Pacifica (KPFK is an affiliate) that she advised then mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown, to stay off airplanes 8 hours before he was to board one. This Reichstag Fire was perpetrated by the US government to promtoe war and fascism so as to maximize the profits of the capitalist class.

People like Alexander Cockburn, Noam Chomsky, Normon Solomon, Ward Churchill and the like are all either direct or indirect government agents as any thinking person knows (1) the US government is always lying until proven otherwise and (2) one must always examine the evidence of any crime and ask the basic question, who benefits? That is, who had the motive, means and opportunity to carry out this crime? There is no people's liberation struggle that could or would do such a thing; the US government and its CIA and military are known for committing heinous crimes around the world, all to maximize profits of the capitalist class, and the crimes against the workingclass right here at home perpetrated by the US government in the form of its non-existent justice system and its daily attacks on the living standards of the workingclass are further evidence of the criminal nature of the US government, which rests on the foundation of genocide of Native Americans, enslavement of Africans, and vicious exploitation of the labor of the entire workingclass of all colors, all enforced at the point of government military forces at all levels.

The government's conspiracy theory is based on vicious anti-Arab racism, scapegoating Arabs as the cause of all problems, just as Nazi Germany scapegoated Jews as the cause of all problems. It is the same old anti-Semitism. It has no basis in reality whatsoever; it is just a story made up to steal the public treasury for the benefit of Bush and his cronies. The name of the game is always money.

This is just the latest lie of the US government. The Gulf of Tonkin incident never happened; yet it was used to promote the murder of 3 million Vietnamese, 1 million Cambodians, 58,000 Americans, and many others, all to maximize the profits of the capitalist class in munitions and attempting to go after the rich resources of Indochina, and ultimately, China.

In the book list below, Barry Zwicker has an excellent chapter on Noam Chomsky's promotion of the government lies on the 9/11 Inside Job, and previously on the Kennedy assassination. The same is true of Cockburn. Both events were carried out by the US government. It was the CIA which assassinated Pres. Kennedy, and Mark Lane proved that in a court of law and wrote a book about it. Noam Chomsky also opposes the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and is a professional anti-communist, in other words, a government agent.

The left cover they give themselves with their books, websites and lectures are all to thwart serious thinking in times of crisis. That means they are bought and paid for agents of the US capitalist class.

Everyone who is curious must do their homework. Please watch the excellent DVD, Loose Change, at

http://www.loosechange911.com/

and read the following entire book list.

1. Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert

2. The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions & Distortions by David Griffin

3. The New Pearl Harbor by David Griffin

4. Painful Questions by Eric Hufschmid

5. The Iron Triangle (on Carlyle Group) by Dan Briody

6. 9/11 Revealed: The Unanswered Questions by Rowland Morgan & Ian Henshall

7. Waking Up From Our Nightmare by Don Paul and Jim Hoffman

8. 9/11 Facing Our Fascist State by Don Paul

9. 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Tarpley

10. Body of Secrets by James Bamford

11. The War on Truth by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed

12. The Terror Conspiracy by Jim Marrs

13. Towers of Deception by Barrie Zwicker

14. 9/11 and American Empire edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott

> Please watch the excellent DVD and read the following entire book list.



_BUY_ the DVD and _BUY_ all these books

meanwhile nothing changes but the author's make a profit



PS - for the record every word I posted above as my thesis was from my own thoughts

it's not pasted from somewhere, there's no commercialism involved - no one makes a profit unless you count stimulating deeper thoughts and opening dialogue as profiting

"> Please watch the excellent DVD and read the following entire book list.

_BUY_ the DVD and _BUY_ all these books

meanwhile nothing changes but the author's make a profit "

-----ulterior motives to put in question the original premiss.

Another form of logical facility ad hominum attack.

Without any evidence.

actually no - it expounds upon it

anyone with a brain can see that - not only do I agree with the article, I extend and expand on it to show a much bigger picture of the gatekeeping and deception

that's the problem when one relies on the imported thoughts of other's - their own ability to *think for themselves* atrophies

they become like a junkie dependant on other's to do their thinking for them - they even fall into the trap of *buying* these thoughts when they are freely available on the 'net to begin with

then they become like programmed attack robots aligned with whatever hidden agenda the author of the day happens to have - if *buying* wisdom is on today's menu then refusal to do so becomes the enemy - NOT THE ISSUES

I addressed the very heart of the issue in great detail to begin with - how salesmen keep people dependant on themselves and *turn us against eachother* while generating a profit for themselves to boot

if you think for yourself you don't need to read any book to see this issue, and books don't validate it - how "right" you are doesn't depend on how many books you've bought - it depends on *how deep your thoughts are*

buying books doesn't substitute for thinking for yourself - people who do their own thinking are more likely to create change and find solutions than book junkies

- only book sellers don't want you to know that, so they shape the issues around this fact - just one of many ways the situation is framed, gatekept and manipulated