{"id":8004,"date":"2009-05-20T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:43:15","slug":"conspiracy-theories-obscure-real-political-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/05\/20\/conspiracy-theories-obscure-real-political-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theories Obscure Real Political Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052009\/2009_05_20_holland.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052009\/2009_05_20_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/media.nowpublic.net\/images\/79\/a\/79af8d62f7681214e214a2b0272ec4b7.jpg\" alt=\"obama\" \/>President Barack Obama yesterday was sent a letter urging him to invite to the White House a man named Richard Gage. Gage is an architect who claims to be able to prove that the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by timed controlled explosive demolitions. He is promoting a video called Blueprint for 9\/11 Truth and is part of a large movement of Americans who believe that something other than planes hijacked by Al Qaeda members were responsible for the 9\/11 tragedy. They call themselves the 9\/11 Truth movement, and large numbers of blogs, as well as many hours of airtime on this station, are devoted to mountains of information questioning the official story. This week on a popular online political magazine, Alternet featured a commentary by senior writer and editor Joshua Holland critiquing conspiracy theorists. Holland has himself questioned the official 9\/11 storyu before. But, in his new piece, he contends that &#8220;Conspiracy theories often pre-empt substantive analysis of the real political structures that shape our society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Joshua Holland, Senior Writer and Editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Alternet.org\">www.Alternet.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Holland&#8217;s article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/mediaculture\/140066\/3_good_reasons_(and_1_bad_one)_why_i_don%27t_buy_into_your_conspiracy_theories\/\">http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/mediaculture\/140066\/3_good_reasons_(and_1_bad_one)_why_i_don%27t_buy_into_your_conspiracy_theories\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama yesterday was sent a letter urging him to invite to the White House a man named Richard Gage. Gage is an architect who claims to be able to prove that the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by timed controlled explosive demolitions. He is promoting a video called Blueprint for 9\/11 Truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}