Carlhole
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 Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: 'Apocalypse of Coercion' Kevin Barrett |
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| source wrote: | Below is "Apocalypse of Coercion," a new article by mujca.com coordinator Kevin Barrett analyzing 9/11 as a psy-op. The article draws on media guru Douglas Rushkoff's book Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say. Rushkoff, an NYU professor and Esalen Institute teacher, is one of the world's most celebrated media commentators: http://www.rushkoff.com/ Barrett sent him a copy of "Apocalypse of Coercion" and asked if he thought of 9/11 as the kind of coercive psy-op his book analyzed. Rushkoff responded:
"Yeah - terrific stuff. I began thinking about this sort connection, myself, when I saw the documentary Power of Nightmares. He's got a lot more to say about it than I do; pretty much all my opinions on the matter are just watered down versions of his. Have you seen it? I'm assuming you would have, given your area of interest." |
Apocalypse of Coercion
| Kevin Barrett wrote: | | The simple truth is, coercion doesn’t work any more, and future historians will view 9/11 as its final implosion. In the mid-1990s PR guru Howard Rubenstein saw that the internet had made damage-control coercion obsolete, and began advising clients that they had no choice but to let the ugly truth hang out. Need a coverup? “The lesson is not to do it. Sure, people will come to you and say, ‘Let’s set up a committee and we’ll call it so-and-so, and we’ll hire someone to run it,’ and my attitude is: What’s known is known. Simple. What is known gets published. So it’s foolhardy to set up a fig-leaf committee and hope nobody will look under the fig leaf and see what’s there” (160). Unfortunately, the Bush Administration didn’t take Rubenstein’s advice when it set up the 9/11 Commission. |
Watch "Power of Nightmares" here for free if you haven't seen it
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