Just when No Empires started to feel a bit bad for Rosie ODonnell after the Trump/Rosie debacle a few months back, she has to go and publicize her crazy, counterproductive ideas: see this New York Times article on Rosie's upcoming 9/11 conspiracy segment on The View. Be sure to scroll down to the third comment, a case in point for the Times' Mike Nizza. Then take a look at the inimitable Alex Cockburn's recent work on 9/11 conspiracy theories and the left in Le Monde Diplomatique.
Some choice quotations from the Cockburn article:
"What the 9/11 conspiracists want us to believe is that the Bush/Cheney gang represent a new breed of evil, which might be the most dangerous deception of all, for it fosters the fantasy that a new administration, a Hillary Clinton or Al Gore administration, would pursue more humane policies."
"I am therefore sure that the Bush gang, and all the real conspirators of Washington, are delighted at the obsessions of the 9/11 conspiracists. It’s a distraction from the 1,001 real plots of capitalism that demand exposure and political challenge. As Theodore Adorno wrote: 'The tendency to occultism is a symptom of regression in consciousness'."
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