The Perils of Empire - The Relevance of I.F. Stone

The Perils of Empire

The Relevance of I.F. Stone

By EVAN JONES

Izzy Stone was a natural-born blogger. Except that he was born before the age of the pc and the web. But Stone (born Isador Feinstein, 1907-1989) left a pre-historic version of his 'blogging' in the form of the I.F. Stone's Weekly, a model that spawned copies in a later generation of crusading journalists.

I.F. Stone's Weekly (and Bi-Weekly) ran for 19 years from January 1953 to December 1971. Here are excerpts from three entries, relevant to our times.