"Left's" quashing of 911 investigation paved way for new Iraq genocide

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ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CENSORSHIP: SPONSORED BY CIA's FORD FOUNDATION?

by bob feldman

"The mass-circulation weekly TEMPO accused Ford of having once played,
at the urging of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a covert role
in Indonesian political affairs by consciously supporting the work
of individuals who were deemed to be sympathetic to the
anti-communist aims of American foreign policy." --Chronicle of
Philanthropy, 12/13/01

"The Ford Foundation's history of collaboration and interlock with
the CIA in pursuit of U.S. world hegemony is now a well-documented
fact...The Ford Foundation has in some ways refined their style of
collaboration with Washington's attempt to produce world cultural
domination, but retained the substance of that policy...The ties
between the top officials of the Ford Foundation and the U.S.
government are explicit and continuing." --James Petras in "The Ford
Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic
collaboration with the Secret Police" on 12/15/2001

The multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation's historic relationship to the
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] is rarely mentioned on Pacifica's
DEMOCRACY NOW / Deep Dish TV show, on FAIR's COUNTERSPIN show, on the
WORKING ASSETS RADIO show, on The Nation Institute's RADIO NATION show,
on David Barsamian's ALTERNATIVE RADIO show or in the pages of
PROGRESSIVE, MOTHER JONES and Z magazine. One reason may be because the
Ford Foundation and other Establishment foundations subsidize the
Establishment Left's alternative media gatekeepers / censors.

Part 1: PACIFICA / DEMOCRACY NOW / DEEP DISH TV
http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman01.html

Part 2: FAIR / COUNTERSPIN / INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY / WORKING
ASSETS RADIO http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman02.html

Part 3: THE NATION INSTITUTE / RADIO NATION / THE NATION MAGAZINE
http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman03.html

Part 4: ALTERNATIVE RADIO / Z MAGAZINE / SOUTH END PRESS
http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman04.html

Part 5: MOTHER JONES / FOUNDATION FOR NATIONAL PROGRESS
http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/feldman05.html

NEW: Bob Feldman and Brian Salter reply to a reader (21 Sep 2002)
http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs0209/0920_response.html

Upcoming sections: Progressive magazine ... Ford Foundation, the CIA,
and the US Establishment.

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Excerpt from Brian Salter's reply to a reader

Even giving the most generous benefit of the doubt, assuming that the 
establishment Left media orgainizations and individuals in question are all 
completely sincere and unhesitant in their pursuits and clear of any 
conflicts of interest, one still cannot avoid this basic question: if they 
(and their general school of thought) have found such positive favor with 
the Ford Foundation and other well-known elite instruments of mass control 
and social engineering, are they really doing the job that needs to be 
done? And how can one find any continuing credibility in their rigidly 
controlled ideological positions as a genuinely effective and viable basis 
for "dissent"?

As the threat of a new war in the Persian Gulf builds day by day, it 
becomes increasingly important to ask these kinds of questions. Those who 
have fully studied the issues and facts concerning 9/11 and the Bush 
administration's inexplicable coverup and lies understand rationally that 
this is not a topic of "conspiracy theory" but instead a true scandal of 
serious proportions. This can no longer be denied. It is a scandal which, 
if aggressively pursued by the media, should have helped hamstring and 
sideline the Bush administration months ago, which would have made it 
politically impossible for them to push ahead with their war plans in the 
first place. Thus, for those who have been striving to uncover the 
underlying truths behind 9/11 and the "War on Terror," the imminent 
possibility of this terrifying new war is a double tragedy. For this 
reason, we feel there is an urgent imperative to expose and scrutinize the 
institutional factors which have steered the establishment Left media 
toward their current gatekeeping / censorship agendas.