There were definitive statements in my first post, which could be answered, but instead you get an attack response devoid of substance. As James Heartfield pointed out the libel suit showed MT couldn't prove they were deliberately lying. No question that it wasn't the truth.
The Ian Willams from The Nation equated the Rwanda/Srebrenicia/Dafur killings and then went on to mis-characterize Kofi Anon's record. There are articulate critics which could present an accurate picture of the Balkans and Kofi Anon, why aren't they heard as well as IW?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pugliese" <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> To: "left bile observer" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 8:35 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Ian Williams
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> From: ian williams <uswarreport at igc.org>
> Date: Dec 30, 2006 9:02 AM
> Subject: [DemocraticLeft] Ian Williams for himself
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> Thanks Bogdan
> But Michael has always been onside on this issue
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> Incidentally I was on Doug Henwood's show on WBAI last week - in
> fact often am!
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> Some interesting points arise from this. One is the Leninist idea
> that someone like Amy Goodman should onlyhave guests on that toe the
> line. II think it was a milder version of that sank Air America.
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> In contrast, Fox and MSNBC often have people like me on - OK the
> debate is stacked bu there is a debate unlike the Red Army Choir
> these guys want.
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> Fact-checking. It was a different Ian Williams who was at the
> concentration camp -- but he was right and totally vindicated when
> the libel case went to court.
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> I shudder too think of what the large manuscript his group is
> preparing on Srebrenica will be like. "Did ten thousand really die"
> or did they commit suicide to make Milosevic look bad.
>
> Luckily for my peace of mind, II don't follow these assaults from
> off-planet myself, but it is interesting to get the occasional sample
> to remind me how important it is for democratic socialists not to
> assume any spurious affinity with these totalitarian kooks, who think
> the Universal Declaration of Human rights is an imperialist plot
>
> And Happy New Year!
> Ian
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> On Dec 30, 2006, at 1:28 AM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
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