Loose Change Debated

The video 'Loose Change' is proving popular, with 10 million downloads setting it for the first blockbuster of the internet.

In order to counteract the film's contentions, the US magazine 'Popular Mechanics' has published a timely book (just before 5th anniversary of 9/11) which attempts to debunk Loose Change.

Here's a debate between the producers of Loose Change and the editors of Popular Mechanics on Democracy Now.


NB: Popular Mechanics is a Hearst publication.
William Randolph Hearst:
"You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war." (Spanish-American War, 1898)

Some of the reporting of Hearst's newspapers during his 1930's crusade against marijuana and Mexicans:

"Marihuana makes fiends of boys in thirty days - Hashish goads users to bloodlust."

"Was it marijuana, the new Mexican drug, that nerved the murderous arm of Clara Phillips when she hammered out her victim's life in Los Angeles?... THREE-FOURTHS OF THE CRIMES of violence in this country today are committed by DOPE SLAVES - that is a matter of cold record."