The Gatekeepers

The Progressive / Left establishment and the marginalization of conspiracy research

NOTE: Bob Feldman's research is also hosted on another site, LeftGatekeepers.com. There are also several new articles by Feldman at http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles.htm.

I don't endorse all of the material at leftgatekeepers, but there is often good information to be found there.

Investigative report: journalist Bob Feldman follows the money trail to "Left" media organizations that have sought out funding from the big establishment foundations. Are the interests of the people being served by "dissidents" who are being subsidized by the agencies of the ruling class whom they should be exposing? What does this say about the motivations behind the Left establishment's ideological warfare against conspiracy researchers, and their adoption of an increasingly watered-down analytical view which fails to look closely at the inner power structures and conspiracies of the ruling elite?

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

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Recent Additions

The Left establishment's attack on 9/11 skeptics

Background articles on conspiracy analysis and conspiracy phobia

Misc. articles on media manipulation, foundations, etc.

Articles & commentaries from questionsquestions.net

A case study: Noam Chomsky and JFK

Written in reponse to the establishment Left's attacks against 9/11 conspiracy researchers following last Spring's White House prior knowledge scandal, this is a a stunning and detailed rebuttal of the government's "universal incompetence" cover story and the ideological pundits who support it, focusing on Zmag's Michael Albert, from the author of the acclaimed War on Freedom:
9/11 "Conspiracies" and the Defactualisation of Analysis: How Ideologues on the Left and Right Theorise Vacuously to Support Baseless Supposition (Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Institute for Policy Research and Development. 24 June 2002)

Progressive Irrelevance?
(Anis Shivani, Counterpunch. 29 Aug 2002)

Conspiracy theories and real reporters (Carla Binion, Online Journal)
Under close examination, the "structuralism vs. conspiracy theory" dialectic used by the Left media gatekeepers to give an air of intellectual legitimacy to their stubborn thought-policing quickly reveals itself to be laden with logical contradictions and blind spots.

An Incorrect Political Memoir (Daniel Brandt, 1992)
Written in the immediate aftermath of the furor over Oliver Stone's JFK, this fascinating essay examines the ideological crusades of "Leftists" such as Chip Berlet against conspiracy research, and connects this agenda with the ascendance of politically correct identity politics and multiculturalism which neutered the Left as a viable opponent of the ruling elite, which surely must delight the powers that be. The conclusions of this essay have been confirmed many times over during the past decade (especially by Bob Feldman's research which shows a pattern of CIA-linked establishment foundations favoring and encouraging the monopoly of identity politics on the Left).

America's Extremist Center (Sam Smith, Progressive Review. 1995)
This 1995 article makes a strong case that anticonspiratorial dogmatism has little to do with enlightened, progressive thinking, and instead bears its lineage from centrist liberal elitism and McCarthyism. Also, there is interesting historical background on the scapegoating of the grassroots right in the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing (in which Left anti-conspiracist John Foster "Chip" Berlet played a leading role). Although the issues and events being dealt with currently are different, this is still a timely and relevant analysis of media hype and the myths of extremist "paranoia."

"That's an internet theory and it's hopelessly implausible. Hopelessly implausible. So hopelessly implausible I don't see any point in talking about it."
—Noam Chomsky, at a FAIR event at New York's Town Hall, 22 January 2002, in response to a question from the audience about US government foreknowledge of 9/11. At that time, 9/11 investigators had already presented substantial documented evidence for: prior warnings, Air Force stand-down, anomalous insider trading connected to CIA, cover-up of the domestic anthrax attacks, inconsistencies in identities & timelines of "hijackers", US connections to al Qaeda in Balkans, a Pak ISI-al Qaeda funding connection, etc etc etc.

"Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth."
— Gore Vidal, from "The Enemy Within", 27 Oct 2002

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