A Book Review of “The Freedom”, and interview with author Christian Palenti
7/11/07
I interviewed Christian Palenti last night on my radio show. Christian is an author and journalist who writes regularly for the Nation and other sundry “liberal” magazines. We discussed his book THE FREEDOM which was an autobiographical account of his exploits as an embedded reporter in Iraq at the outset of the Iraq War. It was a very good account of the chaos and insanity that runs rampant in the war zone.
He captured the essence of the madness of war , however it was rather a two dementional accounting of what occurred in 2003; describing the insanity of circumstances that led up to the war, which has continued into it’s 5th year and escalated to apocalytic propoportions. THE FREEDOM takes an authoritive journalistic approach at decribing the excessive heat and dangerous conditions suffered by the soldiers and journalists, who report from the battle zones. THE FREEDOM was a fair and accurate word picture, framed with insights,observations and candid interviews.
My basic concern in our interview was Mr. Palenti’s insistence, that G.W Bush and his bungling administration, were the only people to blame for the living nightmare of Iraq. Mr. Palenti seemed to hold firm to the niave ideal, that there is no greater entities behind the Presidential throne or the Congress. My question is, how can anyone who has seen first hand the mass destruction of a country, documented the looting and grand scale theft and destruction of an entire civilizaton, not be able to piece together the conclusions, that are obvious to millions of Americans an billions of people around the world. OIL, EMPIRE, PROFITEERING, MASSIVE MILITARY BUILDUP, REGIME CHANGE, PREEMPTIVE STRIKE, GLOBAL DOMINATION BY THE ELITIST GLOBALIST NEW WORLD ORDER, NEOCON, ZIONIST INVOLVEMENT and THE MEDIA , THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT APOCALYLPTIC INFLUENCES IN THE BUSH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY; then say with conviction ,that one flaming idiot named G.W Bush had the ability to get elected and reelected without the massive election manipulations of the power elite, that control both American political parties. How can a journalist who writes for the Nation, a well known left leaning , globalist owned Zionist operated national magazine, not be part of the globalist coverup and massive misdirection propaganda campaigns led by all factions of the U.S government and its militaristic, fascist, corporate puppeteers?
Mr. Palenti is a working journalist who is regularly published in mainstream magazines. I understand if a journalist wishes to survive in this corporately owned and operated propaganda pushing, main stream media, he must constantly look the other way and write what they will buy. He must lead his readers to the threshold of truth, then close the door behind him. This is the way of mainstream journalism. I and millions of others who distain and distrust the system understand how the media works.
These are the globalist trained and indoctrinated embedded journalists, who gain their fame and fortune in a mind controlled haze of reality. I liked Mr. Palenti. I found him very personable and intelligent. I found his book to be interesting and worth the time to read it. But I hope Mr. Palenti will one day use his outstanding talents as a writer, to open that tightly closed door of the controlled media, and allow the sunshine and fresh air of honesty into the sealed vaults of suppressed truth.
L.A. STEEL
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