According to the “The Left Gatekeepers Phenomenon”:

“The most prominent Left media icons have been employed to bash the 9/11 “conspiracy theorists”. The attackers have relied on a formula of pschpathologizing their opponents, failing to articulate the strong arguments for official complicity while highlighting specious claims, and exploiting common misconceptions about how insiders would have engineered the attack.”

“The denial that 9/11/01 was an inside job is nowhere deeper than in the traditional Left and the established Left media. Respected commentators for the Left, such as David Corn of the Nation, pooh-poohed challenges to the official story of the attack, or at most suggested complicity of the Bush administration by pointing to Saudi connections to the Bush family, all while staying within the confines of the official myth of the hijackers, crumbling skyscrapers, etc.

“The causes of the Left gatekeeper phenomenon are, no doubt, complex. It may be that, because of their political marginalization, writers on the Left tend to be more defensive about their credibility. Furthermore, many Left publications are dependent on foundation funding, and those relationships may compromise objectivity on conscious and unconscious levels. It is also probable that many left icons are co-opted by covert disinformation programs such as Operation Mockingbird that target the Left media precisely because people expect challenges to the official story to come from that quarter.”

Notes

“The Left Gatekeepers Phenomenon”
http://911review.com/denial/gatekeepers.html

In The Manson Secret, Peter Levanda explains the deeper significance of political assassinations and the need for the “crazed, lone assassin” stereotype:

The established ruling class of a country cannot accept a sane, reasonable assassin any more than they can accept the points of view of their political or military enemies. Assassins are, by definition, insane or somehow racially or ethnically “other,” if not inferior. They do not come from the body politic. They are outsiders, and their outsider status is what causes them to commit these crimes. We cannot afford to give these assassins a soap box from which to convince us of the rightness of their actions, because we may be swayed by a person who is so consumed by political conviction that he picks up a gun and rids the country of someone we may be tempted to realize was a tyrant, and by extension therefore to question the present government altogether.

So, we eventually accept a subliminal message every time an assassin is murdered or otherwise silenced before he or she can stand trial: to attack the king is insanity. (emphasis in original)

Notes

Peter Levenda, The Manson Secret, p. 14

Fenton Bresler, Who Killed John Lennon?

History Matters
http://www.history-matters.com/archive/archive_holdings.htm

Lisa Pease, Real History Archives

William Pepper

Martin Luther King Archive

Siege Heil: The Bush-Rove-Schwarzenegger Nazi Nexus and the Destabilization of California
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

George W. Bush’s grandfather helped finance the Nazi Party. Karl Rove’s grandfather allegedly helped run the Nazi Party, and helped build the Birkenau Death Camp. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Austrian father volunteered for the infamous Nazi SA and became a ranking officer.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1006-08.htm

Notes

Sterling and Peggy Seagraves, Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, pp. 265-272.

“A customary way for the elite to deflect criticism is to term it a “conspiracy theory”, which is common across the ideological system. There is a good reason for it. British elites have built a fundamentally secretive political system for which they are minimally accountable to the public. As noted in chapter 13, they believe the public should have only a marginal say in this system outside elections, and – to judge from some of the views expressed in the Scott inquiry – neither do they think the public should even know what the decision-making processes are. Elites are especially keen to deflect criticism exposing how the system works, which is more threatening than criticising specific policies (which can be dismissed as “exceptions”). The term “conspiracy theory” is often deployed once criticism has moved beyond the specific and is closer to exposing how the system as a whole works.

“My view is that “ordinary people” – and I count myself as one of these – generally distrust their sources of information and know, ultimately, not to believe what they read or see. This is partly because ordinary people, in my view, have a much healthier scepticism of those in power than those closer to power or those aspiring to the political class. People have little stake in the elite and therefore have no reason to trust it.” – Mark Curtis

“…beneath the open surface of our society lie connections and relationships of long standing, virtually immune to disclosure, and capable of great crimes, including serial murder….These forces are still with us, and they are not benign.” – Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, pp. 17 and 21.

Peter Dale Scott’s concept of “deep politics” may be more appropriate than “conspiracy theory” to categorize much of what we’ve been discussing here:

“…the investigation of parapolitics, which I defined (with the CIA in mind) as a `system or practice of politics in which accountability is consciously diminished.’…I still see value in this definition and mode of analysis. But parapolitics as thus defined is itself too narrowly conscious and intentional… it describes at best only an intervening layer of the irrationality under our political culture’s rational surface. Thus I now refer to parapolitics as only one manifestation of deep politics, all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.”

- Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, pp. 6-7

For a concrete example of what he means by “deep politics,” read Deep Politics: Drugs, Oil, Covert Operations and Terrorism, a briefing he gave for Congressional staff on July 22, 2005. (It also explains why Kosovan independence is so dear to Western hearts.)

In “JFK, 9/11 and War,” Dale Scott explains related terms such as “deep events”:

“In American history there are two types of event: ordinary events which the information systems of the country can understand and establish. There are also deep events, or meta-events, which the mainstream information systems of the country cannot digest. I mean by a “deep event” an event in which it is clear from the outset that there are aspects which will not be dealt with in the mainstream media, and will be studied only by those so-called “conspiracy theorists” who specialize in deep history.”

And he goes on to define the related concepts of “deep history” and “deep state”:

“If history is what is recorded, then deep history is the sum of events which tend to be officially obscured or even suppressed in traditional books and media. Important recent deep events include the political assassinations of the 1960s, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and now 9/11. All these deep events have involved what I call the deep state, that part of the state which is not publicly accountable, and pursues its goals by means which will not be approved by a public examination. The CIA (with its on-going relationships to drug-traffickers) is an obvious aspect of the deep state, but not the only one, perhaps not even the dirtiest.

“When I talk of a deep state, this term (as opposed to others, like deep politics), is not my own invention. It is a translation of the Turkish gizli devlet, or derin devlet, a term used to describe the networks revealed by the so-called Susurluk incident of 1996, when the victims traveling together in what became a deadly car crash were identified as “an MP, a police chief, a beauty queen and her lover, a top Turkish gangster and hitman called Abdullah Catli.” The giveaway was that “Catli, a heroin trafficker on Interpol’s wanted list, was carrying a diplomatic passport signed by none other than the Turkish Interior Minister himself.” He was carrying narcotics with him at the time of the crash.”

“… the word “conspiracy” does not do justice to what is, after all, merely a group of people from similar backgrounds with similar goals, all working to a common purpose which is hidden from the world at large by virtue of a Great Wall of wealth, prestige, culture and power. We begin to see that what the rest of us call conspiracy is just business-as-usual for the people who operate above, behind and below what we know as consensus history, consensus reality. I believe the word “conspiracy” is over-used and emotionally-loaded in this context. Let us instead, and rightly, use the word “cabal” to denote this gathering of sinister forces.” – Levenda, A Warm Gun, p. 316

“Some people can’t put their minds around real history, Lisa Pease, of the Real History Archives writes. “They can’t conceive of a world with that much deception. When you wonder how we could have so much false history, recall what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf:

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, because the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.

~ Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf

In a TV show about the crash of flight TWA 800, presenter Greta van Susteren asked, “And what about the conspiracy theorists who keep insisting the jet was actually shot down?”

In Into the Buzzsaw, Kristina Borjesson deconstructs van Susteren’s ploy:

With this rhetorical question she shoots down two birds with a single phrase. Because “now she’s telling you to think that anyone who doesn’t buy the government’s unproven theory, anyone who thinks the jet may have been shot down, is a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ Tacitly attached to the term ‘conspiracy theorist’ are all kinds of other nouns and adjectives like goofball, nutcake, bottomfeeder…. Using insulting and false labels to marginalize dissenting or politically incorrect voices is a ploy that the government and corporations as well as the press use on a daily basis.

In his foreword to the book, Gore Vidal adds this comment:

Why daily? Certainly because in the real world conspiracies are the rule not the exception…. what on earth is a political party but a conspiracy to appropriate the powers off the state for secret ends like a preemptive war in order to annex oil fields for cronies while awarding contracts to other cronies that specialize in the demolition of cities that other companies will be paid hugely to rebuild?

Luckily, for the conspirators (never fear to use the right word), American consumers are so comfortable dog-paddling in the waters of Lethe that they do not read with any care the lies much less the corrective truths that the authors of this volume have collected at some cost to themselves.

The problem with Chomsky is that he sees capitalism as a monolith. It’s institutions not individuals that matter. So it doesn’t matter to him if Kennedy was assasinated by elements of the government because all capitalists are the same. Same with 9/11. The likelihood that the terrorists were aided and abetted by American officials doesn’t fit his anti-imperialist narrative that the terrorist attacks were payback for U.S. foreign policy. Either he’s dangerously naive or so blinkered by ideology that he can’t see that some capitalists are worse than others. What baffles me about those on the left who eschew conpiracies is that they seem to support the establishment narrative when its legitimacy is seriously questioned.

Notes

Mark Curtis, “Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World,”
http://human-nature.com/reason/01/curtis.html

Lisa Pease, Real History Archives, http://www.webcom.com/lpease/collections.htm

Notes

Henrik Krüger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism

Michael Levine, The Great White Lie

Michael Levine, Deep Cover

Peter Dale Scott, Drug, Oil, and War

Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America,

Sterling and Peggy Seagrave’s Author’s Note (p.x) in Gold Warriors:
“Many people told us this book was historically important and must be published – then warned us that if it were published, we would be murdered. An Australian economist who read it said, “I hope they let you live.”

“We live in dangerous times, like Germany in the 1930s, when anyone who makes inconvenient disclosures…can be branded a ‘terrorist’ or a ‘traitor.’ (p. xi).

Wayne Madsen, Jaded Tasks

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton

The Kangas Kronicles
http://members.fortunecity.com/editor_oj/Kangas_Kronicles/kangas_kronicles.html

Danny Casolaro

Jim Keith

Most people are familiar with Rev. Moon and his Unification Church with its mass weddings presided over by Master.

It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss Moon as a marginal cult leader with ….

The Moon organisation is profoundly influential political movement whose tentacles touch many of the major developments and people during the past 50 years.

Moon

Dave Emory, antifascist researcher and radio presenter, believes that “the Moon organization constitutes an extension of the Japanese patriotic societies through the years and around the world.”

Sasakawa

Kodama

deniability

Authoritarianism

Lockheed

Mitsubishi

Daniel Junas

North Korea

WACL

In 1967, Moon and Sasakawa founded the Japanese branch of WACL.

“The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) was founded in 1966 as a public relations arm for Taiwan and South Korea. WACL didn’t attract much notice in the U.S. until John Singlaub’s United States Council for World Freedom, the American branch of WACL, was launched in 1981 with a loan from Taiwan and soon began raising money for the contras.

The authors believe that covert U.S. funding played a role in the establishment of WACL

Cocaine Coup

Iran-Contra

Drugs

There has been much speculation about the source of Moon’s seemingly endless funds.

Kodama: “Asia’s top druglord”

Koreagate

Bushes

Christian Mafia

Falwell

Messiah

crucifix-burying

Moon’s close association with Christian leaders seems bizarre, unless we understand the latter as Wayne Madsen describes them in his “EXPOSÉ: THE “CHRISTIAN” MAFIA” as “criminal conspirators who have chosen to misuse their self-avowed devotion to Jesus Christ to advance a very un-Christian agenda.”

What they have in common is fascism.

(Family Values)

Washington Times

neo-cons

Anti-Semitism

The Holocaust was God’s revenge for the crucifiction of Christ.

Fascism and the Future

Notes

Robert Parry,

Wayne Madsen, “Christian Mafia…

Carla Binion, “Why is TV news ignoring the relationship between Moon and the Bush family?” Online Journal, February 22, 2001
http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif112.html

Robert Boettcher. Gifts of Deceit: Sun Myung Moon, Tongsun Park, and the Korean Scandal. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980

“Robert Boettcher, Staff Chief In House Inquiry, Dies in Fall,” New York Times, May 30, 1984
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E2DA143BF933A05756C0A962948260

Junas, Daniel. (1989). Rising Moon: The Unification Church’s Japan Connection. Working Paper No. 5. Seattle, WA: Institute for Global Security Studies.

David Brock, The Republican Noise Machine: right-wing media and how it corrupts democracy, Three Rivers Press, 2004
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Propaganda/Republican_Noise_Machine.html

January 21, 1992 broadcast, “Frontline: The Ressurection Of Reverend Moon.” Eric Nadler, reporter. Written and produced by Rory O’Connor.
http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml

Dave Emory, FTR-291 From Kennebunkport to Pearl Harbor: Bush, Moon, and the Rising Sun
http://spitfirelist.com/f291.html

John Buchanan,

John Gorenfeld, Bad Moon Rising,
http://www.gorenfeld.net/book/

John Gorenfeld, “Bad Moon on the rise,” Salon.com, Sept. 24, 2003
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/09/24/moon/

Anderson, Scott and Anderson, John Lee. Inside the League. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1986.

Seagraves, Gold Warriors

Margaret Sanger, Cults in Our Midst
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0787967416/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-4681390-6175268#

Notes

Wayne Madsen, “Shining Light on a Dark Continent,” Jaded Tasks, pp.1-33

Kevin Dowling

Notes

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: the unreported stories, Washington D.C. Regnery 1997

Sally Denton and Roger Morris, “The Crimes of Mena,” Penthouse, July 1995
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/crimesOfMena.pdf

Terry Reed and John Cummings, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA,

Roger Morris, Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America,