DSA Must Reject Imperial Rhetoric on Syria RL Stephens has posted his position on how the DSA should respond to the war in Syria, http://www.dsausa.org/npc_debate The use of the word "debate", I suppose,
The multipolar spin: how fascists operationalize left-wing resentment This article was originally posted on Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch blog but was taken down after threat of litigation by Max Blumenthal. It is reproduced here in full. During his recent tour
Postol Arguing with Himself When I finally decided to read Postol's "analysis" and its addendum of the released White House report about the chemical weapons attack on Khan Shaykhun I thought I had to be
More Disinformation and Anti-Imperialism of Fools The tweet 24 hours before CW attack Some are spreading the lie that a media source tweeted out about the attack 24 hours before it occurred. No, this tweet was not supposed to
An Injustice to Others is None of Our Business After DeBoer's post I ended up reading the Hands off Syria Coalition - Points of Unity Statement closer. One quote that really stuck out: It is not our business to support or oppose
Think Harder I feel I have to start with a quote from Freddie's first piece on Syria and the left because it is a peak into the alternate universe he is in: That anyone who
The Latest Cockburn In Patrick Cockburn's latest article, There's more propaganda than news coming out of Aleppo this week, he writes: It was convenient for the international media to broadcast the videos and Skype interviews from
Won't Someone, Please, Think of the Assad Apologists! Today MRZine published a post from Louis Allday titled Controlling the Narrative on Syria. The purpose of which is to bring to our attention the real victims in the Syrian revolution, the journalists
No, That's Not Identity Politics There has been a lot of talk about identity politics after the Clinton's loss in the general election. Liberals continued their attacks and, likely purposeful, distortions on what many on the left have
The Shit Show Continues Today while watching football I glanced over at "faux anti-imperialist Twitter" to see them all sharing this post by Stephen Gowan, "The Revolutionary Distemper in Syria That Wasn’t"
Anti-Imperialist Chauvinism and Surrending to Jingoism The Stop the War Campaign's Chris Nineham stated on Today: If we have a protest outside the Russian embassy it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to Putin and it would