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You'd think that if he was an accredited American academic in Beirut there would be some web CV, but there isn't.
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I've emailed Counterpunch to ask for some background and some assessment of his stuff in terms of its actual corroborability, among other things. This is obviously nothing to do with this thread, but it is interesting in that Glenn has devoted a great deal of his own time (and credibility) to scrutinising the mechanism whereby Pentagon propaganda gets pumped via ostensibly neutral journalism into the public domain, and by doing so he has incurred charges of pandering to kumbaya singing lefties, so rather than engage in ad hominems, it seems appropriate to ask whether the lefties also have their own phony journalists pumping out propaganda.
I find the psychology of it fascinating anyway, in that when the propaganda is designed to support positions I actually sympathise with (and I can't say that about the Pentagon stuff) I get a chance to observe my own psychology doing something dodgy.
