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Linh Dinh on America as Religion

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE America’s poet-photographer-laureate-in-exile Linh Dinh speaks to us from Vietnam, where he has been working in an in-law’s plastics factory and composing essays. Linh’s brilliant new essay “America as Religion” begins: “I just got off Skype with Kevin Barrett. Interviewed, I sat in the dusty office of our dustier plastic recycling plant. Truck horns and roosters crowing provided background noises. Though we covered many topics, I want to expand on just one, that of America as a religion…” We also “talk about some of the issues that this place raises, such as cultural hegemony, and the Vietnamese taking over…

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Clash of the Titans (Fetzer vs. Tarpley)

Kevin Barrett

Jim Fetzer and Webster Tarpley are two of my favorite people. Not everyone can say that. In fact, quite a few 9/11 truthers wouldn’t put either Webster OR Jim in their “favorite people” category. Why not? Well, both are brash, egotistical geniuses. Each has complete confidence in his own analysis. Neither suffers fools gladly. Both are brilliant scholars AND first-rate extemporaneous speakers, a rare combination. Both have that aggressive speechifying style that is so rhetorically effective – far more effective than the more tentative styles of “careful” folks like David Ray Griffin and Richard Gage. (Even dimwits like Hannity and…

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