Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Tue, 08/16/2005 - 11:14.
I am nearly convinced of the inadvisability of open comments myself at this point, tho I am willing to stick with it for the moment. Our general ground rule has been that a post has to have political content (however vulgar), and I have so far refrained from axing any posts that do. I don't want to establish parameters for a "legitimate" spectrum of debate. I keep hoping that most of our readers fall within those parameters anyway, and sooner or later the wingnuts will be isolated. And I keep getting disappointed, which really makes me wonder who the hell we are doing this project for. Or is it just that wingnuts have a greater propensity to post?
I am all for analyzing splits within the elites, and if that was how the issue was presented I would have no problem with it. Instead, it is too often presented in terms of American sovereignty being undermined by sinister foreigners: always Semites (Israel for the Judeophobes, the Saudis for the Arabophobes). When you have a (yes) supposed lefty like Alex Cockburn talking about "Vichy Congress" and "occupied Washington" (actually one "George Sunderland", but given top billing in Cockburn's Counterpunch), it is clear that this grave error and essentially right-wing position has become the dominant one on the supposed "left." And nobody is talking about that. Anyone who dares bring it up is relentlessly Zionist-baited, as I was on this blog not too long ago. Have you noticed how the popular anti-war websites (Counterpunch, Antiwar) have become breeding grounds for this slimy little cross-fertilization between the supposed "left" and xenophobe right? So I thought our friend Mr. Dagger's remarks were particularly telling. It would be far easier for me to dismiss him as "just" a wingnut.
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
WW4 Report pamphlets
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural - a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers and the self-serving local leaders who cater to them.
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I am nearly convinced of the inadvisability of open comments myself at this point, tho I am willing to stick with it for the moment. Our general ground rule has been that a post has to have political content (however vulgar), and I have so far refrained from axing any posts that do. I don't want to establish parameters for a "legitimate" spectrum of debate. I keep hoping that most of our readers fall within those parameters anyway, and sooner or later the wingnuts will be isolated. And I keep getting disappointed, which really makes me wonder who the hell we are doing this project for. Or is it just that wingnuts have a greater propensity to post?
I am all for analyzing splits within the elites, and if that was how the issue was presented I would have no problem with it. Instead, it is too often presented in terms of American sovereignty being undermined by sinister foreigners: always Semites (Israel for the Judeophobes, the Saudis for the Arabophobes). When you have a (yes) supposed lefty like Alex Cockburn talking about "Vichy Congress" and "occupied Washington" (actually one "George Sunderland", but given top billing in Cockburn's Counterpunch), it is clear that this grave error and essentially right-wing position has become the dominant one on the supposed "left." And nobody is talking about that. Anyone who dares bring it up is relentlessly Zionist-baited, as I was on this blog not too long ago. Have you noticed how the popular anti-war websites (Counterpunch, Antiwar) have become breeding grounds for this slimy little cross-fertilization between the supposed "left" and xenophobe right? So I thought our friend Mr. Dagger's remarks were particularly telling. It would be far easier for me to dismiss him as "just" a wingnut.