<DIV><B><I>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>>>And <BR>I've met the guy and spent an hour talking with him. He doesn't seem <BR>like a sleaze. And my pals at the New Press have spent a lot more <BR>than an hour with him, and think very highly of him. So you'll have <BR>to do better than a feeling.<<</DIV>
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<DIV>The German monthly magazine Konkret, a far-left Marxist glossy which you can pick up at pretty much any newsdealer, had a great article criticizing Galloway from the left, primarily for his associations with Political Islam and his truly fascist use of rape metaphors when discussing imperialist occupation of muslim countries.</DIV>
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<DIV>In fact, Galloway's style really is indistiguishable from any continental fascist. Americans tend not to notice these things, not having mass fascist parties equivalent to European parties.</DIV>
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<DIV>Members of the German NPD show up to their demonstrations wearing Palestinian scarves, wave Iraqi flags, and wear, I shit you not, Che Guevara t-shirts. And, sadly, their Anti-Imperialist rhetoric is indistinguishable from what you would find on the sectoid ML left in most countries.</DIV>
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<DIV>Galloway uses essentially the same "Blut und Boden" anti-imperialist terminology.</DIV>
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<DIV>If anybody is interested, I'll gladly translate the article.</DIV>
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