I haven't seen anything like this on the front page of the NYT for at least 20 years. I think the end of the cold war is finally opening some space in the media for some truth on these matters. It is very limited, of course, but it appears to be a qualitative change. In the same vein, the Washington Post (Sunday, March 30, pC2) ran a very honest and truthful op-ed piece which detailed the terrible role of the US in Zaire. The article is a nice political critique of "When We Were Kings," (which is still a very good documentary, IMHO), and a very appropriate critique, since the fight itself that the movie is centered around was apparently used successfully by Mobutu to gain legitimacy. It's by Steven R. Weissman, who is listed as a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. I don't know much about this organzation, but I do remember they had some very bad people who lent ideological support to the war against Nicargua during the 80s. (If anyone wants to decribe them further, I am curious). Peace, Mark Weisbrot --- On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) Thad Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, not quite, but still quite a long article on front page of the Times > today by John Broder called "Political Meddling of Outsiders: Not New for > U.S." which plainly points out the hypocrisy of the current discussion re > China's covert political campaigns in the U.S. Stops well short of fingering > US complicity in genocides, of course, but still not bad; gives a big quote > to Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives, a good radical. Does > anyone know if Broder is a new or old reporter there? Can we expect more of > this? > > Nice to have a small and surprising ideological triumph on monday morning. > > Thad > > p.s. Nice to see some attention given, finally, to agriculutral workers, > also on p.1 > Thad Williamson > National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives (Washington)/ > Union Theological Seminary (New York) > 212-531-1935 > http://www.northcarolina.com/thad > ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------------------- Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW Washington DC 20009 (202) 265-3263 (offc) (202) 333-6141 (home) fax: (202)265-3647
