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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoseph Cannon published a previously censored piece on Putin's dark rise to power on his blog today.
Conde Nast censored the story in order to protect its Russian business interests. The story concerns the bombing that rogue former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was investigating when he was poisoned with radioactive polonium while living in London.
http://www.newser.com/story/68637/gq-buries-story-on-putins-dark-rise-to-power.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112530364
Joe Cannon is a left-leaning Democratic who reads and sometimes links (positively) to DU, but he is a conspiracy theorist, so caveat lector. Here's a link to the cannonfire blog:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.ca/
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)unfolding before us on the world stage.
lapucelle
(18,265 posts)but the story was originally published in 2009 in a mainstream magazine and then it was conveniently "disappeared".
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)lapucelle
(18,265 posts)I'm not saying that there's anything at all dubious about Anderson. It's the blog where I read the censored story that sometimes deals in CT.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Funny, you can say a meteor that caused mass injuries and damage was a US weapon and you can be a Chechen warlord and be an ally of Putin who rules in an area that just happens to vote 107% for him, but a book is extremism.
JCannon
(67 posts)As a lifelong admirer of the sainted Jeanne (test me; I've read nearly every bio), I find it amusing to be mildly dissed by someone calling herself la pucelle.
But you should know that most "conspiracy theorists" absolutely despise me. The towering intellectuals over on Rigorous Intuition consider me the arch-enemy of their little exercises in paranoia. At least, they used to say things like that, back when they were more likely to talk about me.
Damnedest thing just happened: Shortly before reading this, I corresponded with a much better known blogger -- someone with a good rep, someone whom nobody considers a "conspiracy theorist." But behind the scenes, she is more paranoid than I am! And she was castigating me for being too conventional in my thinking.
This happens to all of us, doesn't it? On the same day when someone tells you "You go too far," someone else will say "You don't go far enough."
lapucelle
(18,265 posts)primary matters, so I'm always careful to warn the more sensitive souls that you don't pull punches when it comes to anyone, including my choice Hillary among others.
You do good work, and I trust your instincts. I also share your admiration for the exquisite and extraordinary Soubirous.
Désolée pour ne pas être aussi courageuse en mes sentiments que ni Jehanne ni Bernadette.
Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)To put it mildly. He's had a few choice things to say about Obama in his time.
I had a few run-ins with Joe in my old PUMA-hunting days (he was never a PUMA as such, though he did hang out with - and eventually fall out with - people from the Confluence etc.).
I wouldn't deny that he tends left on many things.
Just wanting to reinforce your caveat.