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. > > [image: The Secret Life of Bill Clinton] > <http://www.politicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/The-Secret-Life-of-Bill-Clinton.jpg> > > 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 > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]> 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. It > can no longer accede to the punishing demands for greater austerity by the > German-led eurozone and the IMF nor does it want to leave the currency > union, an impossible contradiction which has revealed itself in the > hesitant and confusing political direction of the Tsipras government in its > first five months in office. > > “Mr Tsipras had already made the decision to acquiesce to austerity > demands, recognizing that Syriza had failed to bring about a debtors’ > cartel of southern EMU states and had seriously misjudged the mood across > the eurozone”, E-P writes. A Yes vote which would have mandated that Syriza > hand over or share power with a new government to the right prepared to > promptly surrender to the creditors’ demands. > > Now Syriza’s leadership must bear the full responsibility of capitulating > against the will of the Greek masses who defiantly rejected that course on > Sunday, or must effectively leave the eurozone, E-P reports that the > government’s inner cabinet explored in detail and again retreated from the > latter option last week prior to the unexpected referendum result. > > If the Syriza government is finally left with no choice but to reject the > ever-escalating austerity demands of the eurozone powers, the only > remaining question is whether it will be a chaotic process or one managed > in concert with the eurozone powers. Despite the Telegraph columnist’s > overwrought contention that that “Syriza has been in utter disarray for 36 > hours…events are now spinning out of control…Greece is in turmoil, so is > Europe”, Greece’s rupture with the eurozone is not a foregone conclusion. > > The US, Germany, and their more important allies are nervous and uncertain > about the potential social, economic, and geopolitical consequences of a > Greek exit. German banks and exporters, in particular, have benefited > hugely from the creation of the eurozone, Greece is an important strategic > asset for US and NATO military planners, and there are legal impediments to > Greece’s formal expulsion from the eurozone. Not least, the inspiring Greek > challenge to austerity may provide a powerful stimulus to similar mass > movements in Spain, Italy, France, and the other European countries - a > less reported concern of the eurozone governments. > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11724924/Europe-is-blowing-itself-apart-over-Greece-and-nobody-can-stop-it.html > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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