Re: [Marxism] Tariq Ali to share podium honors with Tim Anderson
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 5/23/16 11:19 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: Tariq, I just wanted to drop you a line reminding you of what a fuckwit you are on Syria. I can sort of understand why you would be affiliated with John Rees's gang since these people at least have a patina of legitimacy from the demonstrations they organized against Bush's war in Iraq. I hope that they are paying you good money for speaking at the "Crossing Borders" conference since it will cost your tattered reputation dearly. But Tim Anderson is a rancid specimen who makes no bones about his backing of Bashar al-Assad. Being an invited guest of a conference that gives him a platform is like speaking at rally in 1938 in defense of the Moscow Trials. Anderson is the master of the Big Lie. This is a guy who writes articles for batshit Michel Chossudovsky's website claiming that al-Assad's popularity was confirmed by his big victory in the 2014 "multi-party" elections in Syria. Surely someone as trained in Chomskyism as you would understand the difference between real elections and demonstration elections, right? Well, Anderson has been disinvited. That's good even though the conference remains a sordid affair. This is a minor victory akin to Mother Agnes getting disinvited from a STWC conference a while back. How in the world did they stoop to invite Anderson in the first place. He doesn't pass the smell test even though I think Rees and Ali can't distinguish between the scent of a rose and a dog turd. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Tariq Ali to share podium honors with Tim Anderson
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * p.s.: at the Left Forum I bumped into a speaker from a "humanitarian" group who had been on a panel with Tariq Ali on refugees the day before. I told her I thought it was hypocritical for Ali to speak on such a panel given his support for the man who drove out 95% of the refugees: Assad. She responded testily that she didn't know nor care what Ali's politics were, and "if the left doesn't stop playing these pro- vs. anti-Assad games we'll never get around to helping refugees." I knew the Stalinist rot was infecting the organized "left," but didn't realize it was rearing its ugly head among NGOs. But then I shouldn't be surprised, as it has the same class basis. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Tariq Ali to share podium honors with Tim Anderson
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * See this widely-endorsed statement on the same theme just issued: http://www.syriauk.org/2016/05/to-participants-and-organisers-of.html For background on Ali and Syria, see: http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article36553 and https://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/response-to-tareq-ali-what-is-really-happening-in-syria/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Tariq Ali to share podium honors with Tim Anderson
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Tariq, I just wanted to drop you a line reminding you of what a fuckwit you are on Syria. I can sort of understand why you would be affiliated with John Rees's gang since these people at least have a patina of legitimacy from the demonstrations they organized against Bush's war in Iraq. I hope that they are paying you good money for speaking at the "Crossing Borders" conference since it will cost your tattered reputation dearly. But Tim Anderson is a rancid specimen who makes no bones about his backing of Bashar al-Assad. Being an invited guest of a conference that gives him a platform is like speaking at rally in 1938 in defense of the Moscow Trials. Anderson is the master of the Big Lie. This is a guy who writes articles for batshit Michel Chossudovsky's website claiming that al-Assad's popularity was confirmed by his big victory in the 2014 "multi-party" elections in Syria. Surely someone as trained in Chomskyism as you would understand the difference between real elections and demonstration elections, right? This absurd conference is co-sponsored by "Stopimperialism.org", the website of a deranged propagandist named Eric Draitser who is ubiquitous to CounterPunch. Draitser is indistinguishable from Pepe Escobar, Mike Whitney and Andre Vltchek when it comes to these questions. In fact all these people might be the sock puppets of somebody in a Moscow basement on Putin's payroll for all I know. Btw, no point in tattling on me to Jeff St. Clair again. For obvious reasons, I stopped writing for CounterPunch long ago. Regretfully yours, Louis Proyect _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
