Favourite Journalists/Academics

til661 · Post by **til661** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:04 pm

I thought it might be interesting and/or informative to find out people's favourites

I'll start i guess

Robert Fisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk
Matt Taibbi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi
Gary Younge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Younge
Noam Chomsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_chomsky
Howard Zinn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
John Pilger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger
George Monbiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot

I'm sure there are others, those are off the top of my head.

luke · Post by **luke** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:22 pm

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 10:36 pm

George Galloway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway

HAHA!!! I couldn't resist!

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 6:55 am

From my side : order is random

john pilger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger
robert fisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk
norman finkelstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein
seymour hersh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh
George Galloway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Galloway
Alex Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_%28radio%29
michael rivero https://whatreallyhappened.com/ {note Wikipedia deleted his entry}
Ry on https://anti-neocons.com
Abd al-Bari Atwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Bari_Atwan / https://www.spiderednews.com/AbdelBariAtwan.htm

edouard_g · Post by **edouard_g** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 3:45 pm

Gore Vidal # 1 in my book but seldom heard from these days. Some other ppl of possible interest:

Tariq Ali: Author and activist.

Scott ritter: author, former Marine and UNSCOM Senior inspector. (doing the rounds with Hersh promoting his book "Target Iran" of late)

Not Academic or Journo but good listen.

Ray McGovern. Retired CIA analyst and CIA Division chief as well as daily briefer to several administrations.

eD.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:23 pm

Thanks Edouard. After the recent James Whale show on 911, I am going to add :

Annie Machon - Partner and former MI5 colleague of government whistleblower "David Shayler"

David Shayler himself

Tim Sparke - Executive Producer of Loose Change 2.

Ian Henshall - Co-author of book : "9/11 Revealed"

p.s. One more : MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

Salim201 · Post by **Salim201** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:19 pm

I'd like to through Edward Said into the mix, if you haven't heard of him (which I doubt) please read up briefly, I've just been reading his book on Orientalism and the Palestine Question, its brilliant, a whole new perspective on literary theory and Imperialism centred on the epitomisation of the Palestine conflict

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:34 am

Salim201 wrote:I'd like to through Edward Said into the mix, if you haven't heard of him (which I doubt) please read up briefly, I've just been reading his book on Orientalism and the Palestine Question, its brilliant, a whole new perspective on literary theory and Imperialism centred on the epitomisation of the Palestine conflict

I would have liked to add him too .. but sadly he passed away from cancer a year or two ago.

I was lucky to see him in a lecture a few years ago.

Salim201 · Post by **Salim201** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:47 pm

Oh, i did know that he had passed away but I didn't know that he was ill or anything, I've only started reading on him recently. I don't know if the list has to be only people who are alive...?

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:02 pm

Salim201 wrote:Oh, i did know that he had passed away but I didn't know that he was ill or anything, I've only started reading on him recently. I don't know if the list has to be only people who are alive...?

You are right .. I was slightly distracted by comment "imagine a school with these as your teachers! " .. I suppose a teacher could be in "spirit" .. if we read their writings.

Brown Sauce · Post by **Brown Sauce** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:45 pm

I think we could throw David Morrison into the mix ..

https://www.david-morrison.org.uk/

mickyv · Post by **mickyv** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:52 pm

I remember a caller once saying to GG that he is to politics as Bill Hicks was to comedy, and I agree. Bill Hicks used his humour to get over very profound & hard hitting view points that GG would approve of, but probably not the language used to convey them. Recalling his comments on the 1st Gulf War, and the first George Bush, it is truly a great loss that his is not around today.