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11 September 2012 – http://coldtype.net
In the September issue of COLDTYPE MAGAZINE – download your free copy today
86 Pages: Our biggest issue so far.
Cover story is The Internment of Marian Price, Eamonn McCann’s tale of the strange affair of Marian Price, a gravely-ill former IRA bomber, who has been detained by the British government. The story says much about the state’s denial of legal and human rights to its citizens.
25 July 2012 – coldtype.net
In the August issue of COLDTYPE MAGAZINE – download your free copy today
Cover story is Jonathan Cook’s analysis of the West’s build-up to war in Syria, in which the West’s choice of ‘White Hat’ fighters are those democracy/freedom lovers from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, who are using oil money to fund the dissident forces.
2 August 2011 — Media Lens
On June 13, George Monbiot devoted his Guardian column to naming and shaming a ‘malign intellectual subculture that seeks to excuse savagery by denying the facts’. ‘The facts’, Monbiot noted, ‘are the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda.’
25 July, 2009 — MRZine – Monthly Review
There are many problems with the Campaign for Peace and Democracy’s “Question & Answer on the Iran Crisis,” issued by the CPD on July 7, and widely circulated since then.1
The CPD adopted this format, it tells us, because “some on the left, and others as well, have questioned the legitimacy of and the need for solidarity with the anti-Ahmadinejad movement,” and the CPD believes “those questions need to be squarely addressed.”
We believe, on the contrary, that the CPD’s 13 questions-and-answers do little to clarify issues related to Iran’s June 12 presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath, and even less to help leftists and “American progressives” decide how they should respond to them.
As we try to show below, when stripped of its didactic format, this Q&A amounts to little more than an emotional plea to its target audience to surrender what remains of their leftist instincts (long under siege in the States, and shrinking rapidly), and join its authors2 for a ride on the “green wave” of yet another color-coded campaign that fits well with one of their government’s longest-running programs of destabilization and regime change. We believe that any “confusion” felt by the left and “American progressives” towards these events is a confusion that has been sown by our would-be instructors.3
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This article distorts a line that it lifted from an op-ed article that I co-wrote six years ago, in order to try to prove a point contrary to what we meant. Our article, linked above, argued that the Iranian people “have the drive, the intelligence, and the capability” to mount their own resistance against the repressive regime which then (and now) tortured and killed dissidents, and “outside factors have never been decisive.” Instead, our article was quoted to support the opposite conclusion, namely, that Iranians needed and received U.S. assistance for the recent “green movement.” Then as now, Mr. Ackerman and I have consistently argued that only entirely indigenous resistance, inspired by local grievances and fueled by home-grown strategies and tactics, could be successful. Contrary to what Herman and Peterson have suggested, we have never endorsed external “destabilization,” and there was no cynicism in our criticism of pro-democracy programs in the West, which I agree have sometimes resorted to support for covert action. The only thing we’ve ever been for is global dissemination — to people in all countries suffering from oppression and injustice — of the knowledge of how to use civil resistance to fight for their rights, as they and only they see fit.