Posts Tagged ‘Counterpunch’
Left/right convergence in France
Several items from Tendance Coatesy, on the Voltaire Network, on the French far right’s links to Putinism, and on Godard’s fascist turn. 1. On Franklin Lamb and France’s Assad supporters: Counterpunch has published some well-informed reports on the unfolding civil war in Iraq, notably by Patrick Cockburn. The same cannot be said for the latest piece by […]
Filed under: France, Left-right convergence, Middle East | 1 Comment
Tags: Aleksandr Dugin, Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, Ataka, Aymeric Chauprad, Counterpunch, Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections, Franklin Lamb, Front National, Heinz-Christian Strache, Jean-Luc Godard, Konstantin Malofeev, Marine Le Pen, Parti Anti Sioniste, Parti communautaire national-européen, Rassemblement Bleu Marine, Réseau Voltaire, russia, Syria, Thierry Meyssan, Volen Siderov, Voltaire Network
From Tendance Coates, with apologies for some added hyperlinks and gently corrected typos: Counterpunch’s friend Israël Adam Shamir does not only write about Dreyfus on Entre la Plume et l’Enclume (between the Pen and the Anvil). He, for example, wrote a vibrant defence of Gilad Atzmon on the same site earlier this year […] calling him “un volcan vivant, un titan pourvu d’un sens de […]
Filed under: Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, France, Left-right convergence, Middle East, the poverty of anti-imperialism | 1 Comment
Tags: Ahmed Moualek, Alain Soral, Alexander Cockburn, Anti-imperialism, Égalité & Réconciliation, Centre Zahra, Counterpunch, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Entre la Plume et l’Enclume, France, Gilad Atzmon, Ginette Skandrani, holocaust denial, Hussein Triki, Israël Adam Shamir, Israel Shamir, La Banlieue S’exprime, Le Mouvement des damnés, María Poumier, new right, Nouvelle Droite, Parti antisioniste, Raba Serbout, Réseau Voltaire, Robert Faurisson, Roger Garauday, Samya Ayari, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Syria, Yahia Gouasmi
An AnarchistNews post about an awful AdBusters article elicits an appalling comment thread. One commenter, however, gives a nice succint summary of what we are up against in the anarchist milieu, at least in North America: Lyons at Three-Way Fight says back Hezbollah. Left Turn backs both Hezbollah and Hamas. Norman Finkelstein backs Hezbollah (‘We […]
Filed under: Anarchism, the poverty of anti-imperialism | 4 Comments
Tags: Alison Weir, anarchism, blood libel, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel Shamir, Judith Butler, Michael Lyons, Noam Chomsky, organ harvesting, Race Traitor, Three-Way Fight, Upping the Anti
Variousness 11
// Israel/Palestine: Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle of the direct actions of the AAtW and Palestinians escalate. Uri Gordon’s Anarchy Alive on video. (Plus ZMag review.) Another friend for the Palestinian cause: Hungary’s fascist Jobbik party. The first “anti-Zionist” anti-war movement. // Boycott news (for @ndy): Ken Loach vs Israeli film. Will they boycott antibiotics? Vanessa […]
Filed under: Anti-anti-Zionism, Austria, Baader-Meinhof, Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, germany | 1 Comment
Tags: Alison Weir, Anarchists Against The Wall, antisemitism, Baader-Meinhof, Baader-Meinhof Complex, BDS, Bedouins, Bil'in, blood libel, boycotts, Christopher Hitchens, Counterpunch, DDR, Die Grunen, East Germany, George Galloway, Gerhard Dörfler, germany, Green Party, Hamas, Interational Marxist Group, Israel boycott, Jerusalem, Jobbik, Johanna Kaschka, Ken Livingstone, Ken Loach, libel laws, Muasara, Ni'ilin, Olive Picking, Socialist Action, tel aviv, The Baader-Meinhof Complex, The Greens, Vanessa Redgrave
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// UK: The BNP pose as anti-war. The EDL doesn’t add up. German lessons for Labour. // US: Counterpunch and the blood libel. Glenn Beck and left-right confusion. // Poland: Legacies of “Judeo-Bolshevism”. // Germany: Die Welt 19.09.2009, via S&S Henryk M. Broder fears that Leon de Winter‘s latest book “The Right of Return”, which […]
Filed under: Austria, Fascism and antisemitism, Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, germany, Left-right convergence | Leave a Comment
Tags: Afghanistan, Aftonbladet, antisemitism, Antoine Garapon, Antonia Zerbisias, Austria, blood libel, BNP, canada, Counterpunch, English Defence League, germany, Glenn Beck, Henryk Broder, Irwin Cotler, Israel, Leon de Winter, pacifism, Palestine, Right of Return, tea parties, Thea Dorn, UK, US
