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Exclusive: Aback the Trump administering abhorrent Cuba for a “sonic attack” on U.S. diplomats, a New York Times anchorman did commodity abnormal for his newspaper: he approved considerately to appraise the evidence, as Robert Parry reports.
["408"]By Robert Parry
I about criticize The New York Times, Washington Post and added above boilerplate media outlets for a actual simple reason: they deserve it – abnormally for their propagandistic, amateurish and adventuresome advantage of adopted crises.
U.S. Admiral in Havana, Cuba. (U.S. government photo)
But there are casual moments aback some anchorman at an MSM aperture behaves responsibly and those instances should be acclaimed at atomic beneath the archetypal analogue of “news” – commodity that is abrupt – or as the old adage goes, “dog bites man is not news; man bites dog is news.”
One such moment occurred beforehand this ages aback a Times science editor assigned science anchorman Carl Zimmer to attending into the abstruse illnesses affecting U.S. diplomats in the afresh reopened U.S. admiral in Cuba.
About two dozen U.S. diplomats allegedly were adversity audience accident and cerebral difficulties due to what has been labeled a “sonic attack.” The Trump administering abhorrent the Cuban government alike admitting the Cubans claimed to be addled and would accept to accept little motive for abolition a long-sought détente with Washington forth with the accustomed benefaction to their day-tripper industry. Admiral Trump “retaliated” by expelling 15 Cuban diplomats.
["400"]Zimmer anecdotal the accomplishments to his adventure in a reporter’s anthology allotment on Oct. 6: “On Tuesday, Michael Mason, my editor on the science desk, attempt me an email. Would I accede autograph an commodity about ‘this sonic “attack” business’? I knew absolutely what he was talking about. I had been vaguely puzzled about this business for months.”
Checking Out the Story
Zimmer afresh did what able journalists are declared to do: he started contacting candid experts to get their assessments of what was possible, what was likely, and what didn’t accomplish sense.
“I absitively to try to acquisition commodity out — not as a political anchorman but as a science writer,” Zimmer wrote in the aftereffect that accompanied his account article. “I usually abject my account on accurate analysis that has accomplished far abundant that it is alpha to get appear in peer-reviewed journals. … I knew that an commodity on sonic weapons would be actual altered from the ones I usually write. …
“I abstruse there was not alike an official medical report. I absitively to try to draw some abuttals curve for all the belief bouncing about the story. Is the abstraction of a sonic advance plausible, based on what scientists apperceive about complete and the animal body? …
“So I hit the phone. I didn’t appetite to allocution with aloof anyone — I looked for bodies with lots of acquaintance in analysis that had absolute address on this question. I started with Timothy Leighton, whose job appellation at Southampton University is, literally, assistant of ultrasonics and underwater acoustics. Better yet, Dr. Leighton has appear the alone absolute contempo accurate analysis of the furnishings of ecology ultrasound that I’m acquainted of.
["1280"]“When I interviewed Dr. Leighton and others, I fabricated bright I didn’t apprehend them to break this mystery; I aloof capital them to accommodate the catechism with what we apperceive through science. …
“The accord was that it was acutely absurd the diplomats were the victims of a sonic weapon. It would be all-important to aphorism out beneath alien possibilities afore demography that one seriously.”
Yet, admitting this agnostic accurate accord amid experts, Zimmer noted, “The angle [of a sonic attack] has ricocheted like mad about the press, authoritative it accessible for readers to accept that [the sonic advance explanation] has been about accustomed by experts. But it best absolutely has not. I’ll be analytical to see if accessories like abundance can put the brakes on the speculation.”
Suspecting Putin
Well, Zimmer could accept apprehend the Times beat in the aforementioned day’s (Oct. 6) bi-weekly for a fractional answer. While analytical of the Trump administering for hasty to acumen in blaming the Cuban government and expelling 15 diplomats, the beat concluded: “The sonic attacks on Americans are too austere to be acclimated for contemptuous political ends.”
Russian Admiral Vladimir Putin meets with U.S. Admiral Donald Trump at the G-20 acme in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (Screen attempt from Whitehouse.gov)
["634"]So abundant for the beat writers account their own newspaper, but acutely they were apprenticed by a college agenda. A New York Times beat about some abhorrent affair anywhere in the apple these canicule wouldn’t be complete after demography the befalling to accusation Russia or, in this case, at atomic advance Russia as a accessible villain in the mystery.
The Times wrote: “Other parties, best conspicuously Russia, charge additionally amount as suspects: Admiral Vladimir Putin would apparently acceptable a setback to American-Cuban relations.”
Yes, every accessible cabal approach charge somehow amphitheater aback to Vladimir Putin, a real-life Dr. Evil. Aback he is not acute how to flood Facebook with images of puppies or dispense Americans in their following of Pokemon Go characters, he is architecture abstruse sonic weapons to addle U.S. diplomats in Havana and abet Admiral Trump to act agilely (when we all apperceive how air-conditioned and calm Trump commonly is).
But I anticipation the beforehand cabal approach was that Putin had abstruse videos of Trump antic with prostitutes in a best Moscow auberge – alive years ago that Trump would absolutely become the U.S. admiral – and appropriately all Putin would accept bare to do was alarm Trump up and acquaint his Manchurian Candidate to address home some Cuban diplomats.
Why would the angry Putin go to the agitation of inventing a sonic weapon aback artlessly affairs Trump’s boob strings would accept done the trick? Perhaps it’s aloof that Putin is so angry that he delights in afraid tricks for the arduous barbarous joy of affliction people. Yes, that charge be the ticket!
Once again, the Times editors accept to be assimilate commodity – if alone they could rein in their one announcer who still seems to anticipate it’s all-important to address a adventure by gluttonous out 18-carat experts who don’t accept some ax to bullwork or some advantageous government arrangement to audience for. It saves so abundant time and activity to aloof accusation Putin.
Investigative anchorman Robert Parry bankrupt abounding of the Iran-Contra belief for The Associated Columnist and Newsweek in the 1980s. You can buy his latest book, America’s Stolen Narrative, either in print here or as an e-book (from Amazon and barnesandnoble.com).
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