[lbo-talk] Targeting Empire

[james daly]

Yoshie wrote:
What leftists should be agitating against is the ongoing US campaign for 
_regime change_ in Iran, _not_ a US war on Iran (which is not going to 
happen any time soon).  Stop using opposition to a phantom war as an alibi 
and start opposing what Washington is already doing: _economic sanctions, 
covert action, and "democracy assistance."_

Doug replied on September 9:
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.

Doug


>From a great distance, that programme looks mostly critical of Iran for 
theocracy. There is no point in preaching to the converted.  Nobody on this 
list supports theocracy -- look at the arch-theocrat Paisley! But as Yoshie 
says, Washington is already doing democracy assistance.

James Daly

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