[lbo-talk] CounterPunch or Weekly Standard?

turbulo at aol.com turbulo at aol.com
Tue Apr 9 12:00:21 PDT 2013


Carl Estabrook wrote:

You mean they believe in discussion rather than orthodoxy?! How quaint.

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And how quaintly liberal and open-minded of you! As if this neoliberal, anti-worker sludge were not already gushing forth from a million sewers! Yet another outlet in a supposedly leftwing journal is just what the world needs! Have leftists lost all capacity for indignation? (And, as a matter of fact, CounterPunch doesn't believe in discussion all that much. Where is its letters column? Where is the piece I wrote in 2006 refuting Vicente Navarro's Stalinist narrative of the Spanish Civil War? (It wasn't rejected for literary reasons.) Or Tony Greenstein's

more recent protests against CP's ongoing publication of articles by Israel Shamir and Gilad Atzmon, two certifiable Jewish anti-Semites? CP publishes capriciously.



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