Hiya Bob,

        John Pilger is a "campaigning" Australian journalist who writes
about
and analyses current events and conflicts using a radical perspective. His
work is quite at home amongst that of Chomsky. You can find a small archive
of his writings at http://www.users.bigpond.com/nlevine/thearchive.html

Pilger's writings and film appear sometimes in the mainstream media.

There is no real controversy in the aus.politics threads. Just that some
consider
Pilger to be an unreliable academic source.

Thanks again for the Kennan citation! I started on your essay today.

Regards,

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: buzzanco [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 February 2000 23:12
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Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Sources for Pilger/Hitler Quotes


Allow me to reveal my ignorance.  Who/What is John Pilger and what's the
controversy?

Bob

At 10:40 AM 2/17/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>Thanks Bob!
>
>There are two short threads in progress in the aus.politics
>newsgroup about the reliability of John Pilger as an
>academic source. See the threads "USA Immediate Post-WW2
>Agenda" and "John Pilger An Accurate Source"
>
>I'll get to your essay shortly...
>
>God Bless!
>
>Craig
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: buzzanco [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 16 February 2000 23:21
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Sources for Pilger/Hitler Quotes
>
>
>The Kennan quote can be found in the State Department's collection of U.S.
>documents, FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. I quote it in an article
>I wrote that's on the web which you can access at
>http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/bernathlecture.htm
>
>Don't know the source of Hitler quote.
>
>Bob Buzzanco
>Univ. of Houston
>
>
>
>
>At 05:08 PM 2/16/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>>Hi People,
>>
>>        I am looking for exact primary sources for the following quotes
>from
>>the ZNET User Quotes Page. Can anyone help?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Craig
>>
>>"We have 50 per cent of the world's wealth, but only
>>6.3 per cent of its population. In this situation,
>>our real job in the coming period is to devise a
>>pattern of relationships which permit us to maintain
>>this position of disparity. To do so,
>>we have to dispense with alll sentimentality
>>. . . we should cease thinking about human
>>rights, the raising of living
>>standards and democratisation."
>>
>>- George Kennan, US Cold War Planner, 1948
>>
>>"We stand for the maintenance of private property...We shall protect
>>free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible
>>economic order. - Adolf Hitler
>>
>Bob Buzzanco
>Associate Prof. of History
>University of Houston
>Department of History
>Houston, TX  77204-3785
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>http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/buzzanco.htm
>713.743.3093
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>
Bob Buzzanco
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Department of History
Houston, TX  77204-3785
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