[lbo-talk] Just Do Something!

[Liza Featherstone]

There was a small mistake involving the ISO in an article I wrote for the
Nation. I made sure a correction ran in the magazine. As for red-baiting,
that's horseshit. I doubt anything so balanced has ever been written about
the ISO: I said they do some good stuff and some bad stuff. Left party
groups just love to cry "red-baiting" when they get any kind of criticism.
It sure beats engaging with critics or examining their practices.

Liza


> From: "Joseph Wanzala" <jwanzala at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 18:33:03 -0700
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Just Do Something!
> 
> sorry, but you cannot simply declare the statement about Featherstone's work
> on the ISO in the Nation as a 'strike' Ms. Featherstone did in fact write
> some articles for the Nation and the question of how accurate they were or
> whether or not they were red-baiting as stated in the piece I posted has
> been the subject of extensive debate.
> 
> As to Christian Parenti's reportage from Baghdad, we are told by Louis
> Project that: The other important piece of information that Christian
> gleaned from his travels about Baghdad is that the people want nothing more
> than peace. He quoted one Iraqi as saying, "Take our oil--take it all. Just
> get the electricity turned back on." Somehow I find it hard to visualize all
> this. Maybe I am just jaded from reading Thomas Friedman.
> http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w34/msg00184.htm
> 
> looks like *you* struck out.
> 
> 
> 
>> From: "Dennis Redmond" <dredmond at efn.org>
>> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Just Do Something!
>> Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 18:02:50 -0700 (PDT)
>> 
>> Wanzala wrote:
>> 
>>> the red-baiting Chuck Munson.
>> 
>> Strike one.
>> 
>>> Featherstone is a free-lance journalist who wrote red-baiting attacks
>>> on the ISO for the Nation Magazine in her capacity as "movement" expert.
>> 
>> Strike two.
>> 
>>> Parenti... [has] written an article from Baghdad
>>> in the Nation claiming that Iraqis are anxious to give us all the oil
>> they
>>> have in exchange for safe streets, jobs, running water and electricity.
>> 
>> Strike three.
>> 
>> Yer out.
>> 
>> -- DRR
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