“They want to kill every story they can. They’d rather have no story about this case than even a positive story about their side. They don’t want people to know about it. They want to erase it from people’s thought process.”

Take out the words “want to” and “they can,” and the above summary explains the muzzling of the news media and most of the publishing industry on the falsehoods of the official narrative of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, since a short aftermath of that day. “They kill every story.”

No challenge to the Executive Branch balderdash is considered, much less written. No need to turn in a story proposal so that it has to be spiked. No reviews of small publishing houses’ solid books. No acknowledging legal actions on behalf of victims’ families.

As it happens, the top paragraph does not pertain to the travesty of 9/11 myth making and myth keeping but rather to a petroleum giant’s squelching of mainstream media coverage of an unrelated matter.

Read Chris Hedges’ “How Corportate Tyranny Works,” on the decades-long involvement of Texaco/Chevron in Ecuador, its poisonous mega-pollution there, court cases about it and media strategies. Then, for the other side of the question, read Jack Fowler’s “Steven Donziger and the Plot against Chevron” in the National Review.

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“The Senate’s findings on Russian interference are explosive. They shouldn’t be ignored,” the Washington Post asserted last Thursday in an editorial reprinted across the country, including in Monday’s Berkshire Eagle under a similar headline.

Readers of this blog’s entry last Saturday, Aug. 22, know Ray McGovern didn’t ignore the Senate Intelligence Committee report either, so he put together “Catapulting Russian-Meddling Propaganda,” which I found on Consortium News.

You may want to consider taking in both (among other views) before deciding what you think is going on.

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— Mark Channing Miller