I checked Juan Cole's site first thing after reading the Times account to see if once again Ahmedinejad had been mistranslated. I checked it again after Louis posted this link and it's been updated. Cole is still furious at him but has modified some of his earlier conclusions. On a directly related note: the mainstream media is claiming his opponents were chanting "Not Gaza, Not Lebanon, We Will Die for Iran," at the Al Quds Day protests. To chant that at all, and especially on Al Quds Day, is so deeply reactionary. And I'm sure some will say, with some justification, that it's akin to the way citizens of Stalinist states began to resent their regimes' official anti-imperialism. But explaining reactionary behavior doesn't make it any less so.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.juancole.com/2009/09/ahmadinejad-spews-raving-lunatic-anti.html > ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
