Exposing Faux Capitalism

On LRC’s blog on November 10, 2011, Lew Rockwell wrote:

“MSNBC is blocking their own guy Pat from appearing to discuss his new book. I have my own differences with this beautifully written, fascinating work (and I despise MSNBC), but suppression is hardly appropriate with the man or the network.“

But what about LewRockwell.com keeping certain articles by its regular contributors from its readers?

A Google search shows at least 72 articles by The Economic Collapse Blog re-published by LRC since August 2010.

On November 7, 2011, The Economic Collapse Blog published the article, 14 Reasons Why We Should Nationalize the Federal Reserve. This article was picked up by Infowars.com, but not by LRC — for the obvious reason that it doesn’t fit with their narrative that the government can’t do anything right.

This one article isn’t the exception, but the rule. I have seen several such articles by TCDB that aren’t picked up by LRC, with it being rather obvious when a TCDB article with a “government is inherently bad” spin potential is published shortly before or after a TCDB article that doesn’t fit with LRC’s anti-state narrative. Another such example is the article, Free Trade or Fair Trade? 20 Reasons why All Americans Should be Against the Insane Trade Policies of the Globalists, which predictably wasn’t picked up by LRC.

As Lew Rockwell added:

“UPDATE from Robert Katz:

“If [a] book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God’s sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.” — Thomas Jefferson to N. G. Dufief, 1814“

So I say to Lew Rockwell, if The Economic Collapse Blog’s overtly pro-state articles be false in their facts, disprove them; if false in their reasoning, refute them, but let us freely hear both sides if we choose.