Comments on: The Price of Journalism: Picking Peoples’ Brains Without Credit

By: Reader from Germany

Reader from Germany — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Nothing to say on topic, just glad to hear that New Yorker Mag is interested in your work.

By: Sambo Moishe Gonzales

Sambo Moishe Gonzales — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

In reference to the Massacre at Virginia Tech today I have recited, several times, the prayer I use when shooting tragedies like this and Columbine occur.

"Dear Lord,
Please let the children of the executives of the National Rifle Association be among the victims."

S.M.Gonzales

By: hey

hey — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil, I just have to say thanks for that article. I've got an excellent clip file, and I'll make sure to do everything possible to ensure that those people's lives are miserable, their careers are destroyed, and hopefully get them prosecuted for their participation in crimes against humanity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"Dear Lord,
Please let the children of the executives of AIPAC be among american troops killed in Iraq."

But of course, they won't be, because such people do the shouting, whilst others do the shooting.

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Re: Phil's article in New York Magazine on the new student radicalism. It was quite good. I've always felt that one of the biggest prices we've paid in America for the pro-Israel lobby -- and we've paid quite a lot -- is the loss of an effective Left. Starting in the sixties, the movement became so infiltrated with Zionist gatekeepers with their great burdens of ethnic grievances, that issues of justice were gradually pushed off the agenda. Literally off the agenda, as we saw when "progressive" Jewish organizations sabotaged the anti-war demonstrations of recent years. But also off the agenda in the sense that the next generation instinctively grasped that something was rotten and stayed away. ("We're going to speak truth to power, EXCEPT for this one little truth over here which we'd appreciate no one mentioning.") Justice is an all-or-nothing kind of thing.

Pity this poor student in Phil's article who correctly senses the barriers that have been erected around her: "'Up until recently, I was very afraid to express an opinion either way,' says Olivia. 'It was a taboo subject. I didnât want to be anti-Semitic or anti-Arab.'"

(By the way, I'm too old to be very radical any longer myself, but I definitely appreciate how important it is to have that voice from the Left in the discussion.)

By: David

David — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

WHY IS THE PEACE MOVEMENT SILENT ABOUT AIPAC?

"'AIPAC!' was the forceful one-word answer of Congressman Michael Capuano when we asked him, 'Why was the Iran clause forbidding war on Iran without Congressional approval taken out of the recent supplemental for the Iraq war funding?'

...

"It is widely acknowledged that the reps and senators are ticked at AIPAC, and their hostility seems to be growing these days. With upwards of 60% of their campaign contributions coming directly or indirectly from the Israel Lobby, the Democratic congressmen are not free to respond to their antiwar base. And that could cost them their next election, a little thing which has them very worked up."

http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh04172007.html