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Postol ended up a loon, denying obvious camera footage (when it comes to Iron dome), and ignoring basic chemistry (regarding the Assad massacres) in favour of c

by yyyk 6y ago

Postol ended up a loon, denying obvious camera footage (when it comes to Iron dome), and ignoring basic chemistry (regarding the Assad massacres) in favour of conspiracy thoeries. So much of a loon he was resigned from his journal membership once peer review found no basis for his assertions[0]. Ultimately, there's no moral difference between the 'anti-imperialist' US far Left and the caricature they chase. Except this: Even when the US acts badly, it's done by people who were elected to do this, and have to maneuver in the world - the 'anti-imperialist' Left does the supporting genocide biz without being elected, without any consequences, without any scruples and with the approval of their conscience (inasmuch they have one). The C.S. Lewis quote about Robber Barons applies in full here. [0] https://www.truthorfiction.com/theodore-postol-mit-paper-syria/ https://www.truthorfiction.com/theodore-postol-mit-paper-syr...

jessaustin 6y ago
Another no-name website quoting bellingcat does not convince anyone to believe bellingcat. It's easy to falsely malign an old man (who doesn't employ a PR firm) online (and especially in wikipedia). Postol's five decades of experience still stacks up pretty well against Higgins's several years playing video games on the basement couch. (British unemployment benefits might be more generous than ours?) It is interesting that he is the authority who will put his name to these zany conspiracy theories. OPCW have enough whistleblowers to form a band, as one can read at Grayzone linked above or from the original sources. [0] One less charitable than I would wonder just why you're so committed to this exhaustive parroting of trivial military-industrial complex dogma, to the extent that you'd accuse a random pacifist (not "Leftist") of secretly (so secretly he doesn't himself know it!) supporting genocide. USA doesn't fight in wars in order to "stop genocides". (Again, we were ISIS allies in Syria and even sometimes in Iraq. That is not to mention the hell-world we created in Libya; a less powerful nation would certainly have been called before the Hague for that pile of atrocities.) We fight in wars in order to transfer public assets to armaments manufacturers and to their puppets in government and media, and those puppets will employ any pretext in pursuit of that goal. We gave the publicly-admitted portion of our military $750B this year. The citizens of USA (and everyone else) would be safer if we spent a third of that. [0] https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/20190227-Engineering-assessment-of-two-cylinders-observed-at-the-Douma-incident/ https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/20190227-Engineeri...

by yyyk 6y ago

jessaustin 6y ago

Another no-name website quoting bellingcat does not convince anyone to believe bellingcat. It's easy to falsely malign an old man (who doesn't employ a PR firm) online (and especially in wikipedia). Postol's five decades of experience still stacks up pretty well against Higgins's several years playing video games on the basement couch. (British unemployment benefits might be more generous than ours?) It is interesting that he is the authority who will put his name to these zany conspiracy theories. OPCW have enough whistleblowers to form a band, as one can read at Grayzone linked above or from the original sources. [0] One less charitable than I would wonder just why you're so committed to this exhaustive parroting of trivial military-industrial complex dogma, to the extent that you'd accuse a random pacifist (not "Leftist") of secretly (so secretly he doesn't himself know it!) supporting genocide. USA doesn't fight in wars in order to "stop genocides". (Again, we were ISIS allies in Syria and even sometimes in Iraq. That is not to mention the hell-world we created in Libya; a less powerful nation would certainly have been called before the Hague for that pile of atrocities.) We fight in wars in order to transfer public assets to armaments manufacturers and to their puppets in government and media, and those puppets will employ any pretext in pursuit of that goal. We gave the publicly-admitted portion of our military $750B this year. The citizens of USA (and everyone else) would be safer if we spent a third of that. [0] https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/20190227-Engineering-assessment-of-two-cylinders-observed-at-the-Douma-incident/ https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/document/20190227-Engineeri...