Phillips,Peter

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Peter Phillips is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored (->). Phillips released in November 2002 an article, in which he expressed, that neither Sep11th was an intelligence failure or Paul Wellstone (->) died of an accident: "...We don't need macro-conspiracy theories to understand that powerful people sit in rooms and plan for global change with private advantage in mind. ...Many people no longer trust the corporate media to provide the full truth. This opens people's susceptibilities to believing in conspiracies and plots to explain unanswered questions. Cynicism has deterred voting for many. How can we free ourselves from this dilemma? First off, We can think of conspiracies as actions by small groups of individuals instead of massive collective plots by governments and corporations. Small groups can be dangerous, especially when the individuals have significant power in huge public and private bureaucracies, but they can not possibly be interlinked in a macro way bridging the gaps between thousand of corporations and government bureaucracies. Micro-plots may well be the answer to some of the conspiracies floating in our circles of cynicism. However, without accurate through investigations we only stew in our distrust and experience widening alienation from our democratic process..." Source: http://www.projectcensored.org (->) Contact: mailto:peter.phillips@sonoma.edu