I agree with the author: Zinn's failure to acknowledge or know about false-flag operations diminishes his credibility as a historian.

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Written by Eric Larsen
Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Part I and Part II

Howard Zinn And The Tea Cozy

For just about two years now, I’ve been posting essays on this web site that describe, castigate, and lament the patent madness, especially since 9/11, of American policy, leadership, and popular behavior. These essays, further, have described and cried out against the deathly and poisonous effects not just on the political nation but on its entire culture that have been produced by Americans’ choosing to go on living—or “living”—under the corrupting miasma of one of the greatest, most grotesque, and most destructive lies ever told in the long and admittedly often grim history of the human race.

I’ve gotten a certain, though not great, number of attacks for my efforts, one of the goofiest being from an old socialist friend in Canada who seems to have gone over the edge of something somewhere. His position, as he explained it via email, is that I’m myself the demented one for keeping up the battle for 9/11-Truth—because in actuality “9/11 was a flyspeck on the dust-jacket of history for nearly everyone except those who live in the US and believe fervently that the US is an impregnable monument to all things good and true.”

My old friend must indeed have lost his marbles—and memory—if he really means to put me in the company of those who “believe fervently that the US is an impregnable monument to all things good and true.” After all, he himself declared, just before putting me in that ungodly company, that what I really “think” (or hope) is “that the ripcord of truth on 9/11 might bring down Bush and corporate-imperialist conspiracy,” hardly the aim of one who sees in the U.S. “all things good and true.”

But there’ s something more sinister at work in my friend’s thinking, and something also much more self-paralyzing than just tossing out absurd false accusations about people worshiping the U.S. as being all good if not in fact being the world’s only good. The kindling that set my friend’s anger aflame was an essay I wrote attacking, among other things, Howard Zinn. The kind of “thinking” I attacked in Zinn’s case is repeated by my friend himself in his attempt to attack me for attacking Zinn. Here’s a look. My friend’s first sally:

So what is Zinn’s sin, what is at the root of EL’s extended attack on this man? Only that he doesn’t join in with his clarion call to denounce 9/11 as a false-flag inside job.

Even my friend’s first shot is mortally compromised by that little word, the adverb “only.” Other little smear-words, like “clarion call,” we can ignore. But truth is truth, and the question of Zinn’s failure to show any interest in the 9/11 Truth movement was, in point of fact, “only” a part of what I really did attack him for. If you’d like, read the essay and see.

On the specific matter of 9/11 truth, my friend begins delicately and ends grotesquely:

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