The
two foundational events of the past half-century that are essential to
understand if one wishes to grasp the truth of U.S. foreign and domestic
policies are the subjects of the following interview. In the first
part I am asked to reflect on JFK’s murder through the lens of James W.
Douglass’s masterpiece, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters;
the second part is devoted to my analysis of why I don’t speak about
9/11 anymore, my ongoing study of the linguistic mind control used to
conceal the truth of the attacks and the subsequent “war on terror” that
ensued and that has claimed millions of lives. Seventeen years and
ongoing, this “war on terror,” is itself an example of language as
sorcery, even as the justifications for this reign of death-dealing have
become transparently ridiculous. But we live in the age of the
ridiculous, when the claims of charlatans are offered as serious
arguments and are presented as such by their court stenographers of the
corporate mainstream media, which is another branch of the CIA. As the
CIA’s “Mighty Wurlitzer” plays on (CIA officer Frank Wisner’s term for
the way he could play any propaganda tune with the assistance of the
agency’s people throughout the media, academe, the arts, etc.) and the
“liberal” left joins in the anti-Russia and anti-alternative media
campaign, understanding their language and logic games becomes more and
more important. James Douglass’s quotation on the “Unspeakable” from
the Trappist priest Thomas Merton, who was himself assassinated followed
by a 50 year cover-up that numbs the mind and pierces the heart at the
extent of human treachery, rings truer with every passing day. Merton
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It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken
even before the words are spoken; the void that gets into the language
of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are
pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss.
It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of
his obedience.
While so many Americans do their utmost to avoid the consequences of
the void in which they dwell, perhaps talking and writing about it will
still reach them before they too become victims of the system they
support that continues to victimize millions throughout the world.
Perhaps.
Philip Farruggio interviews me on It’s the Empire, Stupid
Edward
Curtin is a writer whose work has appeared widely. He teaches sociology
at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. His website is edwardcurtin.com.
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