Celia:I understood your post and I think Mark did too. People are hard to define now. I’m on the same journey. 4 years ago, would’ve never read you or Mark or Bobby Jr. I was the poster boy for ultra conservative. Then they started trying to kill us, Trump included. New alliances are forming. They want to use the old left/right divide...let’s not let them
I started questioning the left, after growing up a union baby, during the 90's when my wife covered Duesberg & we joined a local SF organization called Heal SF which also was critical of vaxxes. Some fellow members were libertarians and even a couple of Republicans. Fast forward to 2014/2015, & the Dems, headed by Ricard Pan here in CA, were in full vax tyranny mode. Can't say I didn't see it coming.
In my piece "Case Zero was not in WIV in November 2019," I added an addendum where I talk about the man who made a super-human effort to expose Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scam (beginning in 1999 - nine years before Madoff's children finally turned him in).
You could compare that man to Celia and her work on AIDS/HIV. But that man finally got some redemption and the consensus is now universal that he was right all along.
Maybe the same thing will happen to some of us Covid contrarians in the future? Nah. I doubt it.
Pick up the telephone and have a live chat. The written words gets everyone all mixed up and pissed off. Hello Operator, please put me thru to _ _ _- _ _ _ - _ _ _.
Yes, the inherent inadequacy of language. Words are just signposts pointing the way toward what we mean, but not the same thing as the destination. That's why our words always fall short of what we mean to say, why we are misunderstood, and why we need live conversations.
(This comment fell short of what I meant to say. And will probably be misunderstood).
Celia, thanks for your article about MCM, who is indeed a courageous truth fighter and deserves all the praise you can load upon him for standing up for those 'difficult' issues which lefties like Chomsky have abandoned (JFK, 9/11, Covid). Stay strong.
Agree. And I'd add that I think I did understand Celia's "parameters" of the public intellectual category. Part of it IS the size and scope of their "following." In particular, I love CJ Hopkins and Sam Husseini, from MCM's list. But they're not (unfortunately) at the larger Chomsky level of pull and influence, and I believe that's the category Celia was talking about. I think I might add Christian Parenti to the "good" list, much sooner than I'd add Taibbi. (As an aside, I think his father, Michael, has "aged" a lot better than Chomsky).
Do you feel like your name should be Miss Understood? That's my name too. As an RN in this fight, I sort of get what you mean. You are a long time veteran though. Plus, a hero. 💞💞
Take a break on this lovely Sunday afternoon. No need get upset by anyone’s ideas about who’s who or what’s what right now. You can that crap tomorrow or next week or even next lifetime if one exists.
I’m just glad to see the army of truthsters (which you were on of the first) is growing in leaps and bounds. And we have a virtual place here to meet.
The lesson here is that Left/Right is not a useful distinction. It does not identify allies. It does not identify enemies. We are often on same or different sides of things. It *depends*. Thoughts are deeper things than these superficial labels. All this distinction does is introduce confusion and taxonomy where it is not needed, and unnecessarily dismissing people based on make-believe categories. The thinkers and writers I gravitate towards defy such classifications anyway, since they think for themselves. (And once again, I've shoe-horned in my stack title 😉 )
I rarely see references to the leadership, courage and prolific erudition shown throughout the manufactured COVID crisis by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky. Prof. Chossudovsky founded Global Research.ca in 2001. He is still the hands-on director of the Montreal based operation that includes French and Spanish extensions of the project. As some of the readers here will know, since 2020 Global Research.ca has been daily putting out 10 or so essays, many of them original, on COVID matters. Simultaneously Michel's site publishes leftist perspectives on a number of issues it have been regularly covered at GR for more than two decades of academic activism on the net.
As I know from my own experience, Michel has helped a variety of authors in several languages take their contributions from the idea stage through to edited completion. Before the COVID crackdown it would not be uncommon for GR.ca essays to be replicated in say 50 times or so other sites. Now, however, COVID essays are stripped from the action that takes place on the big search engines.
Michel himself is constantly facing hassles from the US State Dept., CBC and others that he is some sort of agent of Russian disinformation. Even with all the attacks and restrictions restrictions, however, GR.ca retains a fairly large group of loyal readers who regularly make their way to the GR site and contribute in various ways to keeping it all going.
Amidst all this, Michel wrote his own important important book on "The Worldwide Corona Crisis." As you will see by consulting the range of articles published on the site, Michel's left perspective continues to come across loud and clear. He worthy of acknowledgement in this process of remembering the leftists who did show up to continue the class struggle throughout the manufactured COVID crisis. Please see
I wonder if Celia Farber will bring Pro. Chossudovsky into her narrative of heroic Left intervention to address the lies and crimes of the manufactured COVID crisis?
Try being a physical anthropologist. 20% of your time is spent searching for, examining, and publishing your findings about fossil remains which can add to the body of knowledge of the science (and physical anthropology is a science, or it was 50 years ago -- my time). And spend the next 80% of your time for the next 75 years arguing about taxonomy (systematics). In layman's terms, it's all about defining your terms, which as all we know is really the basis of most disagreements.
I totally grokked your earlier post, and appreciated the fine distinction you made in specifying "public leftist intellectual". Sorry Marc misinterpreted it (if he did, I can't truly tell if that's accurate to say) but it doesn't change that your distinction is valid.
If anyone you didn't name takes offense (hopefully they're not that fragile, but who knows - these are weird times), may they get over it nice and quick.
You meant no offense, you were perfectly clear insofar as your use of language, and we all have better things to do than nitpick.
Celia:I understood your post and I think Mark did too. People are hard to define now. I’m on the same journey. 4 years ago, would’ve never read you or Mark or Bobby Jr. I was the poster boy for ultra conservative. Then they started trying to kill us, Trump included. New alliances are forming. They want to use the old left/right divide...let’s not let them
I was a poster girl for the other side ... and you and I now come together in service to unity. That's great news.
It was prophesied... the political realignment has been extraordinary. As one who's been realigned, I know!
I started questioning the left, after growing up a union baby, during the 90's when my wife covered Duesberg & we joined a local SF organization called Heal SF which also was critical of vaxxes. Some fellow members were libertarians and even a couple of Republicans. Fast forward to 2014/2015, & the Dems, headed by Ricard Pan here in CA, were in full vax tyranny mode. Can't say I didn't see it coming.
In my piece "Case Zero was not in WIV in November 2019," I added an addendum where I talk about the man who made a super-human effort to expose Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scam (beginning in 1999 - nine years before Madoff's children finally turned him in).
You could compare that man to Celia and her work on AIDS/HIV. But that man finally got some redemption and the consensus is now universal that he was right all along.
Maybe the same thing will happen to some of us Covid contrarians in the future? Nah. I doubt it.
Pick up the telephone and have a live chat. The written words gets everyone all mixed up and pissed off. Hello Operator, please put me thru to _ _ _- _ _ _ - _ _ _.
Yes, the inherent inadequacy of language. Words are just signposts pointing the way toward what we mean, but not the same thing as the destination. That's why our words always fall short of what we mean to say, why we are misunderstood, and why we need live conversations.
(This comment fell short of what I meant to say. And will probably be misunderstood).
“But my words like silent raindrops fell…within the well of silence”~Paul Simon~
To quote Tom Tom Club's Wordy Rapping Hood, which, coincidently I revisited last night: " What are words worth?...
Words don't say what they mean.
Don't mean what they say...."
Still a great number after all these decades.
thank you for your time
you've been so much more than kind
you can keep the dime
You're dating yourself!
Celia, thanks for your article about MCM, who is indeed a courageous truth fighter and deserves all the praise you can load upon him for standing up for those 'difficult' issues which lefties like Chomsky have abandoned (JFK, 9/11, Covid). Stay strong.
Agree. And I'd add that I think I did understand Celia's "parameters" of the public intellectual category. Part of it IS the size and scope of their "following." In particular, I love CJ Hopkins and Sam Husseini, from MCM's list. But they're not (unfortunately) at the larger Chomsky level of pull and influence, and I believe that's the category Celia was talking about. I think I might add Christian Parenti to the "good" list, much sooner than I'd add Taibbi. (As an aside, I think his father, Michael, has "aged" a lot better than Chomsky).
Cranky AND perceptive is a winning combination.
As opposed to cranky and clueless (see hotez).
Do you feel like your name should be Miss Understood? That's my name too. As an RN in this fight, I sort of get what you mean. You are a long time veteran though. Plus, a hero. 💞💞
Celia and Mark have both been great on this since the beginning of 2020. Not too many others.
And thousands of not very public (meaning not publicized in the press) non-academic non-intellectuals.
Academic intellectuals are 99% of the time whitewashed sepulchres full of bones of dead men.
that's putting it nicely.
Take a break on this lovely Sunday afternoon. No need get upset by anyone’s ideas about who’s who or what’s what right now. You can that crap tomorrow or next week or even next lifetime if one exists.
I’m just glad to see the army of truthsters (which you were on of the first) is growing in leaps and bounds. And we have a virtual place here to meet.
DONT BE MAD GET EVEN UNITE WITH GOD AND LIKE MINDED TO OVERCOME EVILS
The lesson here is that Left/Right is not a useful distinction. It does not identify allies. It does not identify enemies. We are often on same or different sides of things. It *depends*. Thoughts are deeper things than these superficial labels. All this distinction does is introduce confusion and taxonomy where it is not needed, and unnecessarily dismissing people based on make-believe categories. The thinkers and writers I gravitate towards defy such classifications anyway, since they think for themselves. (And once again, I've shoe-horned in my stack title 😉 )
I rarely see references to the leadership, courage and prolific erudition shown throughout the manufactured COVID crisis by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky. Prof. Chossudovsky founded Global Research.ca in 2001. He is still the hands-on director of the Montreal based operation that includes French and Spanish extensions of the project. As some of the readers here will know, since 2020 Global Research.ca has been daily putting out 10 or so essays, many of them original, on COVID matters. Simultaneously Michel's site publishes leftist perspectives on a number of issues it have been regularly covered at GR for more than two decades of academic activism on the net.
As I know from my own experience, Michel has helped a variety of authors in several languages take their contributions from the idea stage through to edited completion. Before the COVID crackdown it would not be uncommon for GR.ca essays to be replicated in say 50 times or so other sites. Now, however, COVID essays are stripped from the action that takes place on the big search engines.
Michel himself is constantly facing hassles from the US State Dept., CBC and others that he is some sort of agent of Russian disinformation. Even with all the attacks and restrictions restrictions, however, GR.ca retains a fairly large group of loyal readers who regularly make their way to the GR site and contribute in various ways to keeping it all going.
Amidst all this, Michel wrote his own important important book on "The Worldwide Corona Crisis." As you will see by consulting the range of articles published on the site, Michel's left perspective continues to come across loud and clear. He worthy of acknowledgement in this process of remembering the leftists who did show up to continue the class struggle throughout the manufactured COVID crisis. Please see
https://www.globalresearch.ca/
My archive of GR.ca articles is at
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/anthony-j-hall
I wonder if Celia Farber will bring Pro. Chossudovsky into her narrative of heroic Left intervention to address the lies and crimes of the manufactured COVID crisis?
Try being a physical anthropologist. 20% of your time is spent searching for, examining, and publishing your findings about fossil remains which can add to the body of knowledge of the science (and physical anthropology is a science, or it was 50 years ago -- my time). And spend the next 80% of your time for the next 75 years arguing about taxonomy (systematics). In layman's terms, it's all about defining your terms, which as all we know is really the basis of most disagreements.
Hey Celia ~
I totally grokked your earlier post, and appreciated the fine distinction you made in specifying "public leftist intellectual". Sorry Marc misinterpreted it (if he did, I can't truly tell if that's accurate to say) but it doesn't change that your distinction is valid.
If anyone you didn't name takes offense (hopefully they're not that fragile, but who knows - these are weird times), may they get over it nice and quick.
You meant no offense, you were perfectly clear insofar as your use of language, and we all have better things to do than nitpick.
Hang in there, girlfriend.
See Bonhoeffer's famous essay on stupidity - it explains A LOT: https://southsidemessenger.com/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity-entire-quote/
Peace Celia Farber. You are a truth-telling warrior.
The biggest wrong one can commit is being right. I mean correct, not right nor left behind
What is a "leftist public intellectual"?