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When far left meets far right
Via Harry’s, a link to a Worker’s Liberty tirade against the scarcely believeable “Free Tariq Aziz” petition being circulated by George Galloway. Money quote: A petition calling for freedom for Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man. Signed by professional anti-Zionists, Holocaust deniers, and representatives of the French New Right — and some people who think they represent the left. That’s what Galloway
The trouble with the “liberal hawks”
“Liberal hawks” like Hitchens, Oliver Kamm and Paul Berman are much derided on the left for supporting the invasion of Iraq. I differ with them on this, but I back them fully in their case against Chomskyism, which tends to portray Islamist terror as an epiphenomenon of Western imperialism rather than a self-motivated totalitarian threat (one that disproportionately victimizes the
Resistance or terror?
A memorable exchange over at World War 4 Report. Bill Weinberg’s thumbs-up citation of Sasha Abramsky brings the “resistance” apologists out of the woodwork. Also, don’t miss Peter Hudis’s takedown of Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein, linked by Weinberg in the comments.
An evening with Rzewski
The subject of last night’s “composer portraits” at the Miller Theater (Columbia U.) was Frederic Rzewski (pronounced “jehv-ski”), a Massachusetts-born expatriate now in his late 60s, a pianist as well as a composer. Pointedly political for many years, Rzewski wrote his solo piano tour de force “The People United Will Never Be Defeated” in 1975, and last night the formidable
Tom DeLay’s mug shot
Is here. I have to say I’m a little disappointed. They didn’t make him hold that ID plaque in front of his chest.
Chomsky’s dismal record on the KR
Pursuant to my 10/19 post on Chomsky, there’s this from Shalom Lappin, posting on Normblog:For some reason [Chomsky’s] admirers, like [Robin] Blackburn, see no difficulty in recommending him to us as a latter-day oracle, despite his defence of the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970’s, and his subsequent refusal to address this episode when the facts on the ground
True Colors (cue Cyndi Lauper)
Syrian President Bashar Assad threatened former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri with “physical harm” last summer if Hariri challenged Assad’s dominance over Lebanese political life….— Washington Post, March 25, 2005 The United Nations investigation into the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon is focusing on the powerful brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria as the main
Beheading Buddhists
Via Sullivan, a report on Islamist terror against Buddhists in the south of Thailand. A direct result of the evils of U.S. foreign policy. Not.