Oh, for crying in the bucket, Gordon! (That's an expression of my Mom's) Samantha Power set out to write a book on Bosnia, Rwanda, Uraq and the Kurdish uprising after the Gulf War which was betrayed by Bush and Snowcroft, and Kosovo. She was a repoprter on the ground in these conflicts. The books on the Genocide of Native Amerikkkans isn;t her area of expertise. You saying she whoops it up for USG killing of millions of Indians from the 1600's to the end of the 19th century? That she denies it? Man.Jeesh.
Growing up in the early 70's, I went to the occupation of the BIA at the Interior Dept. by AIM with my Dad to take photos. That mass market paperback, "Bury My Hear At Wounded Knee, " by Dee Brown was a bestseller, along with other less notable books like, "The Greening of America, " (see, "What We Read In The 70's, " Univ. of N. Carolina Press, if memory serves.)
What is the Hall of Mirrors This On The Left? If One Doesn't Assemble A Whole Bill Of Indictment For The Entirety of The Crimes of Wesern Imperialist Capitalism From 1492 On Everytime One Writes a Book Or Leaflet One Is Complicit In Mass Murder?
These past two yrs. I've been on the internet left lists, lbo-talk has been the best venue/fora for a broad left debate. But, even here, the insinuation, that one is a Counter-Revoutionary Sell Out Rat Fink (even after one posts stuff like chapters of books like Michael McClintock's on U.S. counter- insurgency, heavily indebted to Chomsky or posts notice of discussions in Rethinking Marxism with leftist staffers at HRW like Reed Brophy who wrote Contra Terror In Nicaragua, for South End Press, and except for Ian Murray and Sabri Oncu gets a yawn from y'all, I wonder, at the ability of some to have a set of positions built on a totality of evidence, history, argumentation, debate without demogogic sub-texts and polemicist bag o' tricks posturing.
Back to the subject of the thread. The fans of Ward Churchill and Russell Means (2004 candidate of the Libertarian Party he wants to be) ever confront, Ward on his, "objectively counter-revolutionary, " support of te CIA aided Miskito Indians of Nicaragua in their conflict with the FSLN? His friendship with Robert K. Brown, publisher of Soldier of Fortune/mercenary for Savimbi. Russell Means for the same. And when I say support, I mean they went down there and fount on their side. Not, "support, " as in, "The Bolshevik League of Proletarian Struggle(Marxist-Leninist) Supports The Valient Struggle of the .... Michael Pugliese, Man, I've really adjust my meds!!!