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\nquit blogging. So said I on Monday. He read the item and on Tuesday began posting
\nagain. This time he’s calling his posts
\nweisblogg<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, “news and commentary about the evolution of AM\/FM
\netc.” Have a look while it lasts. You’ll see what I meant. … <\/P>
\n
\nfeature writer). They even put me to work writing the occasional editorial. This item,
\nBurlington”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> (via Poynter), would have caught my attention anyway.
\nBut it’s particularly lousy news for someone who was proud to work there once
\nupon a time. …<\/P>
\n
\nit.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> It’s from February in the San Francisco Chronicle, but very timely
\nin view of George Tenet’s testimony earlier this week before the 9\/11 commission. And it’s by the
\nhistorian Chalmers Johnson, the same guy who wrote with chilling prescience in
\nConsequences of American Empire,”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A><\/B> a year before the 9\/11
\nattacks:<\/P>
\nTerrorism by definition strikes at the innocent in order to draw attention to
\nthe sins of the invulnerable. The innocent of the twenty-first century are going to harvest
\nunexpected blowback disasters from the imperialist escapades of recent decades. Although most
\nAmericans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are
\nlikely to pay a steep price — individually and collectively — for their nation’s continued efforts to
\ndominate the global scene. Before the damage of heedless triumphalist acts and the triumphalist
\nrhetoric and propaganda that goes with them becomes irreversible, it is important to open a new
\ndiscussion of our global role …<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n