My wife was standing at the computer right now when I got a note saying that I'd gotten a generous donation thru my blog. I ran to the other room in disbelief. It's the third time today. She came to me laughing. "Did you ever get this much satisfaction when you worked for the New York Times?" I guess not. Then she got a Jung quote from this book: "The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it." Thanks!
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That's great news, Phil! I am really happy to see this.
Do you have a PO Box, for those of us Neanderthals who would donate by snail mail?
where is your donation link?
Found it! I'll send something this Friday–payday.
That's great. Congrats, Phil. You really are one of the most consistently engaging and important bloggers out there.
Are you going to name names?
Or, does this not constitute the possibility of conflict of interest?
Did Martillo give you money for example?
I would consider giving, Phil, but right now I'm watching my stock holdings plummet through the floor!
I do love your blog, though.
Richard Witty wrote:" Are you going to name names?
Or, does this not constitute the possibility of conflict of interest?
Did Martillo give you money for example?"
That was uncalled for, Richard.
A rather totalitarian thrust from Richard Witty, as the mask of reasonableness continues to slip. As the temperature rises, watch for more of this peremptory intolerance.
It's what ideology does to you.
Its a question of journalistic independance.
If Phil's living is dependant on a community of "like-minded" holding the power of the purse, he'll become a bought "Congressman".
Are you that naive?
Richard
It hurts to see you take a swipe at Mr. Weiss and always aim below the belt.
There is nothing immoral in selling the product of your labour. Even communists didn't argue with that, as long it is your labour, and not your worker's labour that you benefit from.
Difference between writer and congressman is that congressman can use other people's money to make buddies rich and enemies dead.
Writer can merely make us change our minds, challenge our thinking and admire the ethical journey that takes place in writer's soul.
Mr. Weiss has already proven his independent thinking credentials and idea of donors becoming some sort of cabal of eminence grise is straight from protocols of elders of Zion.
I thought Anti-semites had a monopoly for that level of accusations.
Well said about the difference between a writer and a Congressman, Eva Smagacz.
Phil has not demonstrated his clear and independant thinking relative to the constituency on this blog.
He is habitual in the range of material that he presents and the manner that he presents it.
The critique that benefactors influence policy and conclusions, IS a large component of his thesis, and his inquiry into control of media.
He gets to choose. He's getting a small rush of appreciation after years in a desert.
I think he would be savaging his own brand to even appear to be less than independant.
Richard brings up a valid point. None of us knows to what degree things influence us, even when we do everything in our power to remain as objective as possible.
Of course, this is true for all of Richard's positions as well. And the Zionist structure that has molded his thinking over the years is surely more powerful than the collective readers of Phil's blog. Zionist Multi-billionaires versus a PayPal box. Hmmmm…
"Of course, this is true for all of Richard's positions as well. And the Zionist structure that has molded his thinking over the years "
You are so ignorant about my views and history, its silly.
Don't guess Higgins. Find out.
"You are so ignorant about my views and history, its silly.
Don't guess Higgins. Find out."
Yes, I am ignorant about how most of your life has been shaped. My knowledge of you is confined to a tiny sliver of information that I've consumed from an ethernet medium and then processed using my preexisting processing system. That explains my knowledge of your history. Your "views" I would argue I have gained a little more knowledge of through reading this blog. And of course all of this is just the intellectual side of you. We don't have any sort of a "feeling" relationship whatsoever, and they may well be the most important kind.
In order to "find out," it might be helpful if you tell me. I won't resort to guessing anymore.
Ask Phil about my history if you want.
I've known him and his family for 42 years, mostly in our teens.
I ran one of the most progressive institutions in modern America in the early 80's, a spoken word audio and video library collecting materials from progressive and spiritual literature, as well as producing audiobooks on progressive themes (A People's History of the US, The Jungle, Looking Backward, The Woman Warrior, others).
Green Island Spoken Audio Cooperative Library.
The library included a complete archive of lectures by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, others during the period that we were in operation.
Access to the library was by a precedent of netflix, unlimited access served by mail for an annual fee.
I lost an inheritance on that vision, that unique alternative to modern media.
LIBRARIES.
Don't pigeon-hole me.
That was in the early 90's, not 80's.
I won't pigeonhole you.
I don't understand how your record of progressive causes in any way deflates the statement I made about your being influenced by Zionism. The liberal/progressive structure in this country is highly Zionized. Noam Chomsky is a Zionist who engages in disinformation of the highest order.
You don't have a clue about Chomsky.
Read him. So you can know for yourself rather than parroting.
LOL. How do you know I haven't read more Chomksy than you? Parroting is what I used to do when I was a Chomskyite. I defended the man to the death, shutting out any information that conflicted with his ideas.
Understanding Power is still a great introduction to how powerful states operate. But Chomsky can no longer be taken seriously since he wrote that ridiculous A-B-C paradigm in attempting to explain the Israel Lobby (or his opinion that it doesn't exist in any meaningful sense, a ridiculous assertion that even the lobby itself wouldn't take seriously).
If you read enough Chomsky, you realize that his purpose is to deflect all criticism of Israel and its lobby onto the U.S. Israel is a "U.S. client state," the lobby is only effective as far as its aims coincide with those of American imperialism, etc. If you believe these things, so be it. I've read enough to know they're not true.
If Chomksy isn't an official Zionist agent, he's certainly an "agent of the cause." At the absolute minimum, he's so blinded by Zionism (He chooses to call it the "labor Zionism" of his youth and be done with it) that he's unable to differentiate between truth and fiction in matters of Israel and its agents.
His criticism of the Walt/Mearsheimer thesis (as was Finkelstein's) was a redeeming moment of balanced clarity.
I doubt that many of his supporters or critics would describe him as "deflecting all criticism of Israel".
I'm glad that you read Chomsky. I'm sad that you were one of his religious followers.
I've never been a follower. I love aspects of his presentation, particularly his periodic stated insistence "don't believe me, find out for yourself".
He's wrong about his fixation that all political relationships are fundamentally US puppeteer, other countries puppets.
As anti-semites (those that express that through anti-Zionism) are fixated on a fundamental relationship that Jews are always the puppeteers and they are the liberators.
I think his thesis about the US is more accurate more of the time.
The areas of Jewish or Israeli oppressive impact is very limited to very few circumstances on a relatively very small land and population.
The occupation is not nothing, and is not handled anything close to perfectly, or even to what is possible.
But, it is nothing compared to the Iraq war (fought for Saudi/Kuwaiti/UAE/US interests).
You are a moron, Twitty.
Of simply unbelievable proportions.
Really.
That last post of yours is truly special in these regards.
All the best…