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Plaut and the ChronWatch Crazies: Viva La Cucaracha!

Posted 02/12 |

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Good article, thank you for saying what needs to be said..........For the information of anyone who missed it, Ward Churchill’s speech is scheduled to be re-broadcast tonight at 8:45 and again at 11:15 EST on C-span1......Also another good one tomorrow morning at 9:29 on C-span2, John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit man.

Posted by rosemarie jackowski from on 02/12 at 05:59 PM

Thanks for that, Kurt. I actually enjoy a lot of Cockburn’s writing, though I think it gets overly gossippy from time to time. Alam is a new discovery for me (2004) and I find it peculiar that anyone would find him given to screeds or threatening in tone. Maybe it would seem that way if you’ve been spoiled for 30-odd years by the Kinsley school of “criticism” and thus you have skin no thicker than tissue paper. Gevalt.

Posted by alsis38 from Portland, OR on 02/12 at 06:11 PM

I think we have reached a place, due to mass brainwashing, that the sort of stuff Alam writes is considered sedition. It happened in 1918 to antiwar activists, a lot of them were thrown in prison for saying a lot less than Alam or Churchill did, and again in 1948 and later with McCarthy. It happened durng the Vietnam War, I can attest to that one personally. It is a cycle and I think this particular cycle is going to be especially vicious.

Posted by Kurt Nimmo from on 02/12 at 06:40 PM

I add that deriding people as cockroaches expresses a dehumanizing impulse which can foster a belief in superior and inferior human beings.

Yucky.

Posted by Theo from Greece on 02/13 at 08:54 AM

After reading your article of the iraqi elections I have to say I feel disgusted of your clear ignorance on the issue that depresses many venezuelans but makes happy a lot of americans. In this article you claim, Venezuela has had no democracy and have no human rights or such things. in the same article you name are very much hated dictator Hugo Chavez, who by the way is in power because of the huge amount of oil we export, mainly tu the US. You see he is in power because we had a referendum that could revoke him and naturally he did a fraudulous referendum. After this the opposition came with evidence of the fraud and the carter centre disavowed these claims and declare chavez’s remainder to be legitimite. I was also outraged of your statement of no democracy in Venezuela and I can tell you from personal experience that there has been a very solid democracy.

(by the way I know this probably won’t be submited becaus it isn’t convinient for you. That is freedom of expression)

Posted by ignacio from Venezuela on 02/22 at 08:37 PM

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