About the Guest Speaker:
Philip Giraldi is a recognized authority on international security and counterterrorism issues. Mr. Giraldi was awarded PhD from the University of London in European History. He is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest.
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
Thanks JennB for your insight and humour, a firestorm of comments, with more to arrive, I suspect. Great Work!
I remember the acronym of a well appreciated commentator (some may remember him)...NFC...No further Comment. Rowan....RIP
What is important here to my mind is, the very foundation of the US constitution...as a test case for the west. First amendment right of the US...
"Covering for Israel is evidently more important to U.S. leaders than international law, than the lives of civilians or students, than freedom of...
"The company said production will slow down in the coming months ," So folks will still be flying the questionable planes out there now.
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Comment: Very informative interview!