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778 The Nation.EXCHANGE.Pumping Up the VolumeJune 5, 1995as Cooper suggests, but a well-documentedreality.Cooper, however, has me seeing the worldas controlled by a Jewish financial conspiracy,so he fabricates the following quotation:“But ths is why If you go to Wall Street you’llsee it’s all Greenbergs, Shembergs and so on.”I did not say that and Cooper knows it. Cooper’spiece contains many other factual errors.Ken Adams was on for sixty minutes, notninety, and Bo Gritz was given equal time withall other candidates registered wlth the FederalElection Commlssion during the 1992presidential race. These convenient omisslonsspeak volumes.Radical Cooper suggests in a roundaboutfashion that if I had consulted researcher fickEaton at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Iwould have learned of their claim against theone lone author. Swell! Does that mean thatnow each talk host on thousands of radiostations has to contact each special-interestgroup to see if their proposed guest is “politicallycorrect”? Go look at the masswe Encycbpedra of Associatrons in your llbrary and it’sobvious that it’s impossible. Cooper will eventuallyfind out that the most careful talk-showhost occasionally gets snookered. It comeswith the territory. If one of our thousands ofguests was indeed an anti-Semite, then Cooperknows in his heart that our broadcastinghim was an honest mistake. Why didn’t he saythat? SPECIAL AGENDA?It’s also an outrage that what Cooper agreedwas good about us was also left In his wastebasket.The Natron knew prlor to press tlmethat the co-founder of our corporation andnetwork is a Jew actively involved In Jewlshreligious affairs. Three of seven For TheF‘eoplestaff network hosts are Jewish. For sometime we devoted one of our regular programsto Jewlsh Issues. Rabbi Marvm Hier of theSimon Wiesenthal Center did a speclal onehourprogram about the Holocaust and wehave aired it often on the full network. Dozensof Jewish authors and public officials havebeen guests on my show. Thousands of ourregular listeners are Jewlsh and many calledIn wlth support after they saw the Nation article.Finally, I have been attacked in the LibertyLobby’s newspaper, The Spotlight, as atool of Jewish and Israel1 interests. These aremaJor omlsslons known to The Natlon prlorto press time.Cooper assumes a hoher-than-thou attitudeand holds my feet to the fire subject to hisimagined standards of responnblhty. At thesame time, his article 1s accompanled by adsfor Anarchwt Cookbook (did the terroristswho bombed the World Trade Center have thatbook?), a newsletter called “CounterPunch”(exposing the Chase Manhattan Bank), anotherad screaming “Scholarly Booklet ProvesJesus Never Existed!” while another ad promotesGood Vibrations sex toys, to name afew. On the followmg page 1s an appeal for(Continued on Page 808)
June 5, 1995 The Nation since 1865. 779CONTENTS. Volume 260, Number 22EXCHANGE778 Eustace Mullins, Harder ChuckMarc Cooper790 Flying for D.N.C. Dollars:Ron Brown’s V.I.P. Junkets Ken Silverstein792 Guatemala ’46:In the Lalr of the OctopusGore VrdalEDITORIALS795 Why Russia Opposes Expansion:777 Radical DangersNATO Stay Away780 The Country TeamA llan Nam From My DoorMatthew Evangelista781 Slash Burn andJeff Faux782 Usual Suspects Patrrcla J. WdlrarnsCOLUMNS782 Bush, Backslid Calvrn Trdlrn783 Minority Report Christopher Hitchens784 Subject to Debate Katha PoillttARTICLES785 Lessons From the Luddites:Setting Limlts on TechnologyKrrkpalrlck SaleBOOKS & THE ARTS797 Sklar: Florence Kelley and the Nation’sWork: The Rise of Women’sPolitical Culture, 1830-1900 Dana Frank800 Talk Is Cheap Jill Nelson803 Art Arthur C. Danto807 The Ecllpse (poem) Joseph ChaneyIllustrations by Monica IncisaEdrfor, Katrlna vanden HeuvelEwecutrve Edrtor, Rlchard Llngeman; Assocrafe Edrtors, Katha Polhtt, BruceShaplro, Mlcah L Slfry, Lrterary Edrtors, Elsa Dlxler, Art Wlnslow, PoefryEdrfor, Grace Schulman, Managmg Edrtor, JoAnn WyplJewskl, Copy ChreJRoane Carey, Copy Editor, Judllh Long, Assrstanf Copy Edrtor, EmllyGordon, Assrstant to rhe Edrtor. Dennls Selby, Interns. Marta Anson, MartmBoer, BenJarnln Fmernan, Stephane Fltch. Lawrence Levl, Eric Verhoogen,Llsa WestbergDeparfrnenls Archrtecture, Jane Holtz Kay, Art, Arthur C Danto, Flctron,John Leonard: Fhs, Stuart Klawans, MUSIC, Edward W Sald. Gene Santoro;Televrsron, Lewls Cole, Theater. Thomas M Dlsch, Bureaus. Washington,Davld Corn, Europe, Danlel Smger, Budupesl, Mlklbs Vamos, Tokyo, KarlTaro Greenfeld, Southern Afrlco, Mark Gevmer Corporarlons, RobertSherrlll. Defense, Mlchael T Klare, Columnrsts andRegular ContrrbutorsAlexander Cockburn (Beat the Devrl), Chrlstopher Hltchens (MrnorrtyReporf). Aryeh Neler ( Watchrng Rrghts). Katha Pollltt (SubJecf fo Debate),Edward Sore], Calvln Trlllln, Conlrlbufrng Edrfors Lucla Annunzlata, KalBud. George Black, Robert L Borosage, Stephen F Cohen, Marc Cooper,Mike Daws, Slavenka Drakuhc, Thomas Ferguson, Doug Henwood, MaxHolland, Molly Lvlns, Joel Rogers, Klrkpatrlck Sale, Robert Scheer, HermanSchwartz, Andrew L Shaplro, Ted Solotaroff, Gore Vldal, Jon Wlener, AmyWllentz, Patrlcla J Wllllams, EdrtorralBoard: Norman Blrnbaurn, RlchardFalk. Frances FltzCerald, Phhp Green, Randall Kennedy, Ellnor Langer.Deborah W Meler. Ton1 Morrlson, Rlchard Parker, MlchaeI Pertschuk, EllzabethPochoda, Ne11 Postman, Marcus G Raskin, Davld Welr, Roger WllklnsEdrtor at Large, Rlchard PollakManuscrrpts Address to “The Edltor” Not responslble for the return of unsollcltedmanuscrlpts unless accompanied by addressed, stamped envelopesUnsollc~ted faxed manuscrlpts wrll not be acknowledged unless acceptedEDITORIALS.Radical Dangers(Contmued From Front Cover)Evidently gun-toting weekend warriors are one thing andnonviolent AIDS activists another, because last week the Centerfor Constitutlonal Rlghts made public an EB.1. file onpeacefully provocatlve ACT UP. Most of the twenty-twopages released under the Freedom of Information Act (another177 remaln classlfled) consist precisely of what Freehclalmed he doesn’t collect: news clippmgs and leaflets.Q President Clinton declares the milltlas “un-Amerrcan”because they “desplse your government.” But susplclon ofstate power 1s a long American tradition, and wlth good-Publrsher and Edrtorral Drrector, Vlctor NavaskyAssociate Pubhsher for Busmess Affarrs, Vlctor S GoldbergPresrdenf. Ned Black, Advertrsrng Drrector. Peter Mlllard, Assrstunf Manager,Tomasma Boyd, Controller, George Fuchs, BusrnessManager, Ann BEpsteln, Bookkeeper, Ivor A Rlchardson; Art/Productron Manager, JaneSharples, Productron, Sandy McCroskey, Sauna Trenkle; Cmdatlon Dmzfor,Teresa Stack, Munager, MIchelle O’Keefe; ReCeptronM, Vlvette Dhanukdharl,Data Entry/Marl Coordmator, John Holtz, Admrntstralrve Secretary, ShirleySulat, Natron Assocrafes Drrector, Peggy Randall; Publrcily/SyndrcatronDrrector, Jonathan Taylor; ~pecralProJeclsDrrector, Peter Rothberg, OperatronsManager, Davld N Perrotta, Advertrsrng Consultanf, Chrls CalhounThe Natron (ISSN 0027-8378) IS publlshed weekly (except for the fmt weekIn January, and blweekly In July and August) by The Natlon Company, L P0 1995 in the USA. by The Natlon Company, L P., 72 Flfth Avenue, NewYork, NY 10011 (212) 242-8400 Washrngton Bureau: Sulte 308, 110 MarylandAvenue N E , Washlngton, DC 20002 (202) 546-2239 Second-class postagepald at New York. NY, and at addltlonal mallrng offlces. International Telex667 155 NATION Subscrlptlon orders, changes of address and all subscrlptlonmqulrres The Natron, PO Box 10763, Des Molnes IA 50340-0763, orcall 1-800-333-8536. Subscrrptron Prm: 1 year, $48, 2 years, $80. Add $18for surface mall postage outslde U.S Please allow 4-6 weeks for receipt ofyour first issue and for all subscription transactions. Back issues $4 prepald($5 forelgn) from The Natron. 72 Flfth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. TheNatron IS avadable on mlcrofllm from’ Umversrty Mlcrofllms, 300 North ZeebRoad, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Member, Audlt Bureau of Clrculatlons POST-MASTER Send address changes to The Nolion, PO Box 10763, Des MomesIA 50340-0763 Thls issue went to press on May 18 Printed In US A onrecycled paperreason. Laws most often protect the interests of corporationsand the wealthy. Politiclans and generals send teenagers to bekilled In pointless military adventures. Long before Waco, thepolice were known to murder atizens, llke the Black Panthers’Fred Hampton, in their beds.Clinton’s broad-brush language, like his legislation, endangersall radicals. The mllltias spell trouble not because theyare antigovernment but because, as Morris Dees of the SouthernPoverty Law Center told the terrorlsrn subcommittee,“All too often their members grow bored wlth roaming thewoods and shootmg at paper targets” But Dees, who hasfought violent white supremacists for years, opposes Clinton’santlterrorisrn package: “Most hate vlolence is commltted byangry, unaffiliated loners-people on the margins of life-
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