Just as it did immediately after the elections in March of 2008,
MRZine is posting material that strives to legitimize the
government of Iran. As is widely known, the website functions
pretty much as an outlet for Editor Yoshie Furuhashi’s peculiar
devotion to Ahmadinejad despite having much useful information.
One perhaps might take the same kind of forgiving attitude toward
MRZine that one has to Counterpunch, a generally valuable
publication despite Alexander Cockburn's well-known
eccentricities. MRZine’s positions were sufficient to cause
Barbara Epstein to resign from the editorial board of Monthly
Review and earlier on to generate an open letter of protest by
Iranian radicals living in the West.
Among the remaining editors, there is only one who shares
Furuhashi’s odd predilections–namely John Mage, whose main
distinction seems to be membership in the National Lawyers Guild
and a long-time position as attorney to the Soviet Union. Mage is
too cagey to stake out the high profile position of his co-thinker
on the Internet or in print. She recently posted 238 comments
defending the Iranian government on the popular Lenin’s Tomb blog
prompted by Richard Seymour’s article stating among other things
that “There were those, some months back, who tried to
characterise the Iranian reform movement as a flash-in-the-pan
upsurge of the ‘Gucci crowd’, a collective bed-wetting of the
bourgoisie”, an obvious reference to those like MRZine, James
Petras, and Edward Herman who put a plus where the State
Department puts a minus, as Trotsky once put it.
read full article:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/mrzine-drunk-on-its-own-rotgut-ideology/
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