What's wrong with Alexander Cockburn

Damn him. Counterpunch publishes a lot of good stuff, but Cockburn earns his pay as a left-gatekeeper by strictly blocking any questioning of the absurd official 911 story.

Case in point is an excellent review by Paul Craig Roberts of David Ray Griffin's new 911 book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking. Cockburn usually publishes every essay Roberts writes, one a week, but not this one. Roberts needed Information Clearing House to do it.

One highlight from the review regarding the Popular Mechanics hatchet job:

Perhaps it is merely a coincidence that just prior to 9/11 Cathleen P. Black, who has family connections to the CIA and Pentagon and is president of Hearst Magazines, the owner of Popular Mechanics, fired the magazine’s editor-in-chief and several senior veteran staff members and installed James B. Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff, a cousin of Bush administration factotum Michael Chertoff. It was Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff who produced the Popular Mechanics report that Griffin has eviscerated.