Covering Dissent

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Sat Jan 5 12:01:06 PST 2002


---- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>


>From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
>

As for Kosovo,
>I support US military to stop genocide just as I supported US troops in
>Little Rock to stop segregation. Defense of the Bull Connors and
>Milosevics of the world is not anti-imperialism.

-Yep, my memory's failing. Exactly what was the tonnage of bombs we dropped -to integrate Little Rock Central High anyway?

Fine- let's reach back hundred years earlier and make the statement I supported US troops in the South to suppress the Confederacy and end slavery, an even better analogy since those actions were also accompanied as a by-product the expansion of power by US capitalists into formerly semi-feudal retrograde political structures.

-- Nathan Newman

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