> Skimming through Michael Berube’s newly published Eustonesque
> manifesto “The Left at War”, I stumbled across a reference to yours
> truly in chapter one. The good professor grouped me with 9/11
> truthers and Bob Avakian, as people not worth his while to attack.
> The book, you see, was going after bigger game, like Noam Chomsky,
> Edward Herman and other enemies of humane, liberal values. It
> appears that I didn’t rate, because I was just an Internet phenomenon:
>
> Likewise, if I wanted to engage with the divagations [a fancy word
> for ramblings] of the radical left online, I would include figures
> like Louis Proyect, a Columbia University computer programmer whose
> name is well known to far-left listservs and blogs, and who is
> capable of writing things like, “To the credit of the late Slobodan
> Milosevic and to Saddam Hussein, who now is on trial for his life in
> another kangaroo court, they never bowed down. In life and in death,
> these imperfect men will always remind us of the need to resist the
> injustice perpetrated by states acting out of perfect evil. “
>
> The words were my conclusion to an article in Swans titled The
> Demonization And Death Of Slobodan Milosevic that I certainly stand
> by. In keeping with this put-down and subsequent railings against
> Chomsky, Edward Herman and Diana Johnstone, you will not find any
> substance to Berube’s complaint, which usually takes the form of a
> sputtering “how dare they!” Since so much of the book is a diatribe
> about positions the left took on Yugoslavia, one would hope that the
> good professor might have taken the trouble to explain how critics
> of NATO’s war were wrong either on the facts or logic. But such
> matters do not interest him. He is much more at home in the ethereal
> realm of morality and global governance pirouetting with the angels.
>
> read full article: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/michael-berubes-war-on-the-left/