Re: Columnist Eric Margolis [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]

[Nancy Hey]

HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Dear Steve, I did not know that Eric Margolis is a vegan.  If that's so, I commend him for that, but I still think he should stop writing nasty things about the Serbs. I just have the feeling that posting his articles on Antiwar.com gives people the false impression that he is a peacenik, since Antiwar.com is a site for anti-war activists.  But in point of fact, he is not really anit war, or anti imperialist.  As one other person on this list pointed out, he's only against war and imperialism against Muslims.  Did somebody on this list say that he is a Muslim himself?  If so, then of course he has a personal interest in not seeing his fellow Muslims attacked, but in my opinion, a true peace activist is against any war or imperialism against ANY ethnicity, as a matter of principle.  Margolis seems to think that war and imperialism against Slavs is okay. Peacefully yours, Nancy Hey Stephen Gowans wrote: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- But Nancy, Margolis is a vegan! And he would never countenance the sending of chickens to Afghanistan. Still, you may be right. At the same time we prevail upon antiwar.com to blacklist Margolis, maybe we can get them to stop posting Pat Buchanan and Justin Raimondo. Surely there are people on the Left (and not Chomskyites, Trotskyites, social democrats, anarchists, world socialists, libertarian socialists, third-way Marxists, progressives and Blairites) who are making the same points on Afghanistan, Iraq, and so on. Better yet, maybe some of them are vegans. How about Alexander Cockburn? Or does he work for the CIA? Another idea: Being an unrepentant ovolacto vegetarian (yes, I do drink milk: mea culpa), I think my writing should be posted before any of those other guys. After all, who needs ideas, when you have the right political loyalties (and diet)? Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: Nancy Hey To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: Re: Columnist Eric Margolis [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]   HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- " Other people are making the same points he is on Afghanistan, Iraq and so forth; there's no need to provide this enemy of ours with more exposure and authority than his contacts in the intelligence community have already succeeded in doing. Respectfully, Rick " My sentiments exactly!  How can we get Antiwar.com to see this point? peacefully yours, Nancy Hey mart-remote wrote: Well said Rick. Please, let's not give this bastard any more exposure than he already gets, or even the thinest veneer of credibilty. Margolis is a CIA-KLA terrorist who happens to use a typewriter to kill people. His words do not belong on this list. One slight correction. He is with the Toronto Sun, not the Toronto Star.                                                                                                               mart ====================================================================== Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:25:32 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cowboy Prez rides to rescue? - Columnist Eric Margolis [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]   Dear Friends,              For anyone not already acquainted with the fact, Eric Margolis is a Western disinformation agent who boasts, inter alia, of smuggling rockets into the Afghan mujahedin in the 1980s and possessing a host of intelligence contacts, including with the CIA. A quick Google search with the words "Eric Margolis socialism" will demonstrate with whom we're dealing. There is nothing remotely enlightened or progressive about this individual, notwithstanding the fact that his columns, from the very establishment Toronto Star where he is the official foreign correspondent, have been crossposted and linked on several US 'progressive' sites fairly regularly of late. In fact, the only time he criticizes Western militarism, aside from goading it into being more aggressive (e.g. "Stopping Europe's New Nazis" and "Serbia Needs Moral Cleansing"), is when one of his presumed co-religionists is under fire. As such he operates on a personal, and hardly political or principled, agenda. Other people are making the same points he is on Afghanistan, Iraq and so forth; there's no need to provide this enemy of ours with more exposure and authority than his contacts in the intelligence community have already succeeded in doing. Respectfully, Rick   Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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