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On 7/8/15 1:23 PM, Marv Gandall via Marxism wrote:
The astute Telegraph financial columnist, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,
who has closely followed the unfolding crisis in Greece, says the
Syriza leadership never expected to win the referendum and is trapped
by its own success.
From Tom Walker on PEN-L:
One should be cautious about the motives of sources.
http://www.politicalresearch.org/1999/04/01/clinton-conspiracism-and-the-continuing-culture-war-what-is-past-is-prologue/#sthash.0tBgoPhE.dpbs
AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
The work of British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is a mix of
industrious investigative reporting and irresponsible rumor-mongering.
His book, The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories, is an
example of material that should remain unreported by the general media
until it is corroborated with further documentation. A significant
number of footnotes track back to rightist anti-Clinton sources,
especially to the American Spectator, a neo conservative magazine that
ran articles on Clinton with allegations that often lacked adequate
corroboration.
The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
One chapter in The Secret Life of Bill Clinton alleges official
misconduct and a cover-up in the death of Vincent Foster, tracing the
conspiracy all the way to special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Other
assertions in Evans-Pritchard’s book include the claimed assassination
of two teenagers who, Evans-Pritchard says, stumbled across a major drug
delivery tied to Clinton. Other deaths attributed to Clinton or his
operatives are discussed: “Already, people associated with the case were
beginning to die in what amounted to a reign of terror among young
people in…Arkansas.” Evans-Pritchard tells the story of one parent who
“joined up with a California film producer named Pat Matrisciana to make
a documentary on the deaths.” Matrisciana runs Jeremiah Films, which
produces hard right Christian apocalyptic videos riddled with conspiracy
theories, and made a widely circulated anti-Clinton video,The Clinton
Chronicles.
Evans-Pritchard uses James Davidson of the rightist newsletter
Strategic Investment to introduce the idea that Clinton’s actions mirror
those of Nazi totalitarians. In his role as a far right prophet of
financial doom, Davidson has written a book, The Story of a One-Term
President, which forecasts a vast economic collapse and “bloodbath in US
stocks and bonds” under Clinton. Davidson’s in-house “muckraker” for
Strategic Investment is Jack Wheeler, described in his bio as a “veteran
of six anticommunist guerilla wars [and] anti-Soviet insurgencies,
including those in Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia, and Laos.”
Evans-Pritchard cites Davidson’s Strategic Investment several more
times, noting that Davidson financed examinations by several handwriting
experts of the Foster suicide note. Claims that the suicide note was a
forgery were later debunked, and one “expert” was later revealed as
having misrepresented his credentials. Hard-right ideologue Joe Farah
from the Western Journalism Center is introduced as a dispassionate
media ethics expert.
According to the 1995 White House memo, Evans-Pritchard was a
crucial link in taking hard right conspiracism and publishing it in the
Sunday Telegraph of London where it was picked up and reported on by
mainstream US media. Another British journalist who played a similar
role was William Rees- Mogg of The Times of London.
- See more at:
http://www.politicalresearch.org/1999/04/01/clinton-conspiracism-and-the-continuing-culture-war-what-is-past-is-prologue/#sthash.0tBgoPhE.dpuf
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