I was driving and vaguely listening to the public radio news show "the World." They were talking about popular attitudes toward Chavez and Ahmadinejad (who was mourning Chavez) and it sure sounded like they referred to Chavez as a "secular communist." Did they really say that? What are they smoking?
I fnd that "the World" (produced by the BBC, Boston's WGBH radio, and Public Radio International) to much more dogmatic than NPR News, i.e., much more likely to toe the U.S. State Department's Party Line. For example, a story on Iran on NPR is more likely to have some dissenting view on the subject (though usually not very far away from the official Line). I agree with Juan Cole that the Chavez foreign policy (including alliances with such creeps as Ahmadinejad) was quite poor. However, as they say, politics makes strange bedfellows. The leaders of countries that receive massed hatred aimed by the US feel they have to stick together. But is the enemy of my enemy really my friend? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
