Paul Brancato

I recall Mark Lane early on (1964) that he had interviewed DP witnesses who’d had their films taken and never returned.

I read that he made a deal and plead guilty in return. I’ve heard he’s in poor health. Hope he recovers. My first thought was that the next news on him would be about his death.

I get it. It’s just so tiresome. And I have even at times really appreciated his posts, and would still love to have a drink with him and Cory. And you know I’ve had a few disagreements with you too, but never to the level of disparagement. I’m still hopeful for a lunch sometime.

I watched it. Wasn’t he implying that our enemies were earthly? it appears that the interview took place in early 2000’s. At the very end he talks about the debates between Gore and Bush and bemoans the fact that there were 3 other candidates not invited to participate in any of the 3 presidential debates that year.

The obvious question for me is when will the media ask Biden the same question?

Would you care to quote a relevant passage on this thread or in the article that reads like a trump endorsement by Jim?

Thanks Jim. Nice to have a detailed accounting. Cliff never misses a chance with you, but I do agree that Trump won’t do it either.

Thanks Ben. Chris - great experience. It really saddened me to listen to this, knowing that the interview was on KPFK. In the years since the silence on the assassination on those radio stations is deafening. How does one account for it?

Thanks Ben - I’ll listen

From NPR I’ve come not to expect anything better. What I don’t get is why Pacifica and their affiliates like KPFA avoid JFK. I suppose over the years there’s been a kind of takeover there too. I’ve never heard Talbot, or Peter Dale Scott on their airwaves, though at one time or another they have been. But I did hear Judyth Vary Baker. Go figure. They have a blind spot when it comes to JFK, similar to Noam Chomsky. And they are vehemently and rabidly anti RFK Jr.

I like the word ‘coalition’ in this context.

Certainly a good book with some previously unknown material, such as his interview with Tippit’s father.

Very nice of you to say, sorry I was a bit rough.

Well ain’t this grand? Robert Morrow sent out his email blurb on the same book and I responded by telling him to take me off his email list, to which I politely agreed. And here he is smearing Junior. I’ll tell you what, I find this far more offensive than Ben repeating his support for him. The book is a smear. Whether it’s part of some orchestrated campaign I don’t know, but when I asked what you thought, since you bought it up, you said maybe it’s to smear Junior. Passing it along, like Robert Morrow did and you as well, makes me wonder if your dual disdain for Junior clouds your judgements as to what is worthy of sharing.

So what’s your theory? Why now?

Yes indeed why now? One might also ask why are you posting this now?

As usual though you missed my point. Isn’t there a biblical quote that applies? I always feel like you think it necessary to educate me and everyone else on how awful the Republican agenda is. I want to clean up the Democratic Party. Roughly 12% of Americans have diabetes. Look no further to understand why we have bad health outcomes here. Lowering the price of insulin is good and necessary, and should be done for all Americans not just ones on Medicare. More importantly we never ask why they are ill. This is where both parties fail us. They are both in the pockets of corporations, and all the Democrats ever do is work around the margins. Until we have drastic change we will have a declining life expectancy, poor public education, and a host of other problems I don’t need to enumerate. In order to get from here to there we will have to eliminate the sharp divisions among us and find common ground. So I stand by what I said. Tolerance is the first step to bridging the divide. Americans of all stripes agree on many of the issues that plague us, but the duopoly has failed us over and over. As a small experiment I recently told my FB friends that I was anti abortion and pro choice. Is that so hard to understand? Apparently yes. But it’s an attempt to bridge an ever widening divide. Pro choice people are on the right side of history, but that cannot be read as ‘pro abortion’. Who in their right minds is pro abortion?

What ever happened to tolerance? I used to defend the left when they were being accused of intolerance and elitism. What I think happened is that lefties took the bait from an almost intransigent and intolerant Right and became that which they had always proudly claimed they weren’t - intolerant. The Democrats now live in a bubble of their own making, as if that was an appropriate and effective response to the right wing bubble machine. Well, if you are making billions off the military industrial war machine, the pharmaceutical complex (not to be confused with good health), Silicon Valley hi tech AI, the international banking cartel, the the last thing you want is congressional interference, good affordable education and housing , effective health care. You want your adversaries embroiled in divisive rhetoric. But if you’re a thinking citizen you want to find common ground. Know your enemy - it’s not the Trump supporter next door.

Unknown reasons - what’s that about?

So Democrats were, perhaps still are, giving financial support to right wing extremists figuring they’d be easier to beat than centrists. Who defines who is a stalking horse, the candidate, or the cynical donators to their campaigns? It’s horrible to smear Cornel West or RFK Jr in this way. the best antidote to lies is truth, not censorship.

Removing statues is just dumb. It’s not a substitute for educating, rather an empty symbolic gesture, leading to abuses, such as SF board of supervisors recommending that schools should not be named after Washington, or Jefferson, or even Lincoln. It’s a missed educational opportunity.

I don’t agree with Jim D on everything, but he has devoted decades to seeking truth and exposing lies. And all he gets here is flack from the very people that should have a bit of respect. Why is that? my opinion about moderators here, one I didn’t share while that thread was up and running because I was too busy trying to understand all the posts and arguments, is that it should just be uncensored. Why? Because I don’t trust anyone to be in charge of what ok to say and what isn’t ok. I’d prefer a free for all, damned the consequences, because after reading the posts on that thread it felt like we already had one. Plenty of disrespect to go around from the people who like to point fingers at others. Take the motes out of your own eyes first.

Too bad you are so prejudiced. Your post is full of media slant. You simply don’t know who RFK Jr is, or Nicole Shanahan, because you fall for the propagandistic hit pieces. It’s that funding you should be concerned about. He is no stalking horse. You’ve attacked Ben at every opportunity, including all the way through Mr. Gordon’s now removed thread looking at the moderators. You’ve called him MAGA, and you honestly believe you’re doing us all a big favor by revealing his true motives. It’s your motives I wonder about, and why no one is coming after you for your ‘dancing Israelis’ theory of 9/11. Who put you on a pedestal?

I agreed with Mr. Née as well. Thanks Larry.

I read that essay but forgot that.