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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
Sample of Lifton’s bird cartoonery here. His wife once quipped, as he points out in the book, that truly, this is what he will be remembered for…
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
Robert was subject of full-length documentary a few months back, it got full run at Film Forum in NYC but not sure if will be NetFlixed, titled “Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors.”
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
Deep issues covered at length in Lifton memoir, or in his life, that haven’t gotten much attention here yet include: Vietnam vets, Nazi doctors, the Armenian genocide, modern cults, capital punishment, Iraq, and on and on.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
My only disappointment with the great Lifton book was that he did not mention Tom Niedenfeuer even once.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
I’ll let Robert answer that but re: lesson of Hiroshima, my main concern has always been that to “make exceptions” for “never using nuclear weapons,” as most Americans have in regard to the two uses in 1945, is to pave the way for “making exceptions” again.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir
I may be somewhat biased, as co-author with Robert on two books in the 1990s(Hiroshima and capital punishment)and numerous article, but the new memoir is quite remarkable, relevant for today, and, on top of that, a real “page turner”!
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Thanks to Marcy and Bev and interesting exchanges. Back to blog and tweet now…
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Sorry to say, I am not expert on this.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Yes, that is true about WL coming up with idea of making redactions harder to figure.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Still hoping for an Issagate.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
I wonder if anyone, from WL or anywhere, is looking at original cables to find out what NYT cut–was more than just names. Also, which cables they killed completely (for good or bad reasons).
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Wikileaks said flatly that it made a deal with Telegraph to give them cables, no mystery there — though I don’t know if gave them full dump or is feeding them. I suspect the latter.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Well, yes, you see the problem of newspapers with editorial views using cables partly to promote. The Telegraph is rightwing, Guardian to the left. Imagine if Wash Times gets them.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Always fun to see Keller slam Assange when he happily employs and give front page space to Michael Gordon.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Well, he did generate massive coverage. If I may say, one of the values of my book is that it goes through ALL of the major releases before Cablegate, and you can see what happened (and didn’t) with the Collateral Murder coverage, Afghan war logs, Iraq war logs. Enormous coverage in the latter two cases, but then they turned the page, which is a separate issue.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
thanks, appreciate it
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
I don’t think WL “fact checks” per se, but they do need to study and make sure docs are what they seem to be, redact, put them in some sort of grouping, make them useful, and that all takes time.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Underscoring WikiLeaks staffing problems — IF Manning gave them all 4 major releases this year, imagine how that stopped whatever else WikiLeaks had in the pipeline now for 10 months or more….they have released nothing else since then. People won’t and shouldn’t leak if little hope of getting proper attention.
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
Tough to get Americans interested in foreign things. Most still confuse Tunisia with Tahiti — even after events of past months. “Tunis” was guy who wrote all those sports book for boys. Didn’t Gauguin end up there? Brando?
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Greg Mitchell commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Greg Mitchell, The Age of WikiLeaks
I don’t agree with “crutch” thing for under staffed news operations though–yes, occasionally they might jump on something but important leaks burn up more staffing than day to day stuff, cause more trouble than worth — sometimes.
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