[lbo-talk] Targeting Empire

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 9/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Responsible leftists should be making efforts to counter propaganda
> > like this, but don't expect Doug to do it -- he's too busy countering
> > me to bother thinking about what the empire is doing to the Iranian
> > people and to do the right thing to stop it.
>
> You're so utterly full of shit. Take a look at the people I've had on
> my radio show to discuss Iran over the last year:
>
> May 31, 2007: Saadia Toor and Kourosh Shemirani on how Western
> leftists should think about the abuse of women and same-sexers in
> Iran and other Muslim countries
>
> April 12, 2007:  Hamid Dabashi, professor in the Middle Eastern
> studies department at Columbia and author of Iran: A People
> Interrupted, on the history of that complex, consequential country
>
> December 14, 2006: Hamid Dabashi on Iran
>
> August 17, 2006: Val Moghadam on politics and gender relations in Iran
>
> June 1, 2006 Ervand Abrahamian on Iran
>
> And, sometime in the next couple of weeks, Ervand Abrahamian again.

None of your guests' insights, however, appears to rub off on you and
your rhetoric.  Typical fare from yourself are
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-November/022698.html>.  One
hopes that the guests had more influence on the audience than the
host, but if what you say about the size and quality of WBAI audience
(<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20070625/012387.html>,
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2006/2006-September/017598.html>,
<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-March/005884.html>) is true,
perhaps it doesn't matter who's on the show.
--
Yoshie