Reply #124: I have to partially disavow my own post [View All]

[Remember Me]

I have ALWAYS had trouble keeping Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf separate. I stand behind everything I said about Naomi Klein in this post -- but she wasn't the author of the article in quesetion. The article was written by Naomi Wolf, another author I respect but not the author of Shock Doctrine.

So, does that mean I withdraw my support of what Wolf wrote? No, it doesn't. She was careful enough for the critical reader to be able to sort out fact from speculation, and also note well the "un-named" source (which some here insist on equating with NON-sourced -- which it certainly could be when done as part of a pro-war propaganda campaign by the arm of a rightwing Department of Defense, but far less likely to be the case when offered by an unalied journalist).

There's no proof that DHS coordinated the attacks on Occupy protesters, and every likelihood they knew all about it and may have been involved in the coordination through PERF, which appears to have been absolutely involved in the coordination.