"radical multiculturalism, " would that be a synonym for postmodernist, relativist defenses of female genital mutilation, and wearing a burka? Michael Parenti is a Stalinist. Back when he was a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to prop up an isolated Communist Party (PDPA, read an acct. by a Pakistani socialist named Raja Anwar, "The Tragedy of Afghanistan, preface by ex-Trotskyist academic Fred Halliday, Verso Books) riven into two, murderous, fratricidal factions, he defended the intervention. I've read his books...same retrograde polemics of the type published by the CPUSA back when threy were …
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http://en.allexperts.com/e/m/mi/michael_parenti.htm Hail Milosevic, says Parenti! Hail the Chinese rape of Tibet! >...In the era of Mikhail Gorbachev, Parenti was highly critical of the USSR's reformist moves of "perestroika" and "glasnost", arguing that these had the effect of introducing capitalism into the country. He was critical of critical revisionist histories of Joseph Stalin and has maintained that accounts of his repression are regularly exaggerrated both in Russia and in the West. Parenti argued this most explicitly in Blackshirts and Reds, where he cites J. Arch Getty to put the number of executions in the Great Terror at 799,455. Getty's numbers concern recorded …
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Re:>...Ergo for Saddam Hussein and Khaddafi of Libya, both good socialists according to Parenti. I opposed all the military actions against all of the above but did so without pretending they were not mass murderers. I did dispute the Iraq gassing claim based on a US Army War College study showing Iran as the culprit. Another thing Parenti said on KPFA that afternoon. Totally denied that Saddam Hussein had many volumes in his library on Stalin, who he admired. For corroboration on this, see this interview w/Arab journalist, Said Aburish http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/aburish.html On that bogus US Army War College paper blaming the …
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On a late March morning fifteen years ago, as the war between Iran and Iraq was winding down, the Iraqi army began an artillery barrage on Halabja, a Kurdish city situated about fifteen miles from the border with Iran. The people of Halabja first took that attack, and the subsequent bombing by the Iraqi air force, as a routine matter, the everyday consequence of living in a stronghold of a Kurdish Peshmerga militia then allied with Iran. But as they gathered in their shelters, it quickly became apparent that there was something dreadfully different about this bombardment. Heavy, dark yellow clouds …
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The Evidence I will begin with a brief summary of the volumes of evidence regarding what took place that day fifteen years ago in Halabja, as well as in other poison gas attacks on Kurdish civilians, and who was responsible for what happened. As soon as word of the gassing reached Iran with the fleeing residents of Halabja, the Iranian government brought international news media to the scene, and film of the devastation was soon aired on newscasts around the globe. Those horrifying scenes made Halabja into the Guernica of the Kurds, symbolizing the entire Anfal campaign of annihilation. As powerful …
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The Origin of the Denials During the Gulf War and the popular uprisings that followed it, significant stores of Iraqi Baathist government documents and tapes were seized, mostly by the Kurdish Peshmerga. Ample documentation of the plans and the implementation of the poison gas attacks was found, including a tape of a particularly damning speech by the chief architect and executioner of Anfal, Ali Hassan al-Majid. Hassan says of the Kurds, "I will kill them all with chemical weapons. Who is going to say anything? The international community? Fuck the international community and those who listen to them!" Every group that …
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t was this context that produced the ur-text of Kurdish genocide denial-a 1988 DIA report suggesting that Iran, not Iraq, was responsible for the use of poison gas at Halabja. This report, and a subsequent Army War College study and book incorporating its argument, provide one single piece of evidentiary conjecture for placing responsibility on the Iranians: film and eyewitness reports of the dead at Halabja indicated that their mouths and extremities had turned blue, and such symptoms were consistent with exposure to blood agents using cyanide, which, it was argued, only the Iranians were known to use. None of the …
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The Denials Spread In August of 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Faced with the prospect of Saddam Hussein gaining strategic control of much of the Persian Gulf oil reserves, American policy toward Iraq literally changed overnight: the Baathist state was now a threat. The poison gassing of the Kurds, which had been the most inconvenient of facts, suddenly acquired major propaganda value in the battle against the Saddam's regime. The U.S. government became a major broadcaster of the genocidal horrors of Halabja, and remains so to this day. There would be no mention of the support given to the Baathist regime, no …
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THE GULF WAR denials were relatively few in number. (In addition to Said, the other prominent denier was New Yorker writer Milton Viorst, who, after a one-day helicopter tour of Kurdish Iraq provided courtesy of the Baathist regime, decided there was no gassing of Kurdish civilians; he also offered the DIA and CIA claims as confirmation of his judgment.) But they planted the seeds for a third wave of denials that exploded on the scene during the buildup to the Iraq War. Significant segments of the movement opposed to the invasion of Iraq seized upon the old DIA and War College …
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Denials of Halabja from both the extreme left and the extreme right gained undeserved credibility as a result of a decision of the editors of the New York Times that stunned the human rights community: on January 31 of this year, as the debate over the looming invasion of Iraq reached fever pitch, the Times published a lengthy op-ed piece by Pelletiere, in which he reasserted the claims of the DIA and War College reports that he had had a hand in writing. Why the Times editors would publish a piece that could not withstand fifteen minutes of Internet research only …
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What is true of the U.S. government is also true, it must be said, of those in the movements against the Gulf War and the recent invasion of Iraq who denied Halabja and the genocidal campaign waged against the Kurds. The claim that one had to oppose every argument that the Bush I and Bush II administrations made for war against Iraq, regardless of its particular merit, went hand in hand with the contention that the American people could not grasp the full evil of the Baathist regime and still make an informed decision that war was not necessary to contain …
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Groan. blondemike has all the nuance of a poster on freerepublic or little green footballs on the far right or the chatboards of the kwazy maoists in the RCP or the Maoist Internationalist Movement. The Human Rights Watch report http://hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/ANFALPRE.htm was written by George Black. An editor of NACLA, before he joined HRW. The NACLA, journal of the North American Congress on Latin America, like an allied journal on the "Middle East, " MERIP, had their origins in circles of late 60's New Left graduate students and remain solidly left-wing. Susan Meisalas, thanked in the report, a leftist photojournalist is well …
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Yee-Haw! Need your subscription to Jared Taylor's American Renaissance renewed? Since you read Pat Buchanan's The American Conservative, here is a post from the new blog of Taki, their moneybags, http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_southern_poverty_smearbund/ http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3085/ Great post, WTH ! I concur wholeheartedly. I always thought that civil rights or forced integration was the flip side of Jim Crow laws and slavery. By the way, check out Steve Sailor’s lengthy review of Obama’s 1992 bio in The American Conservative, current online issue and it’s downloadable. Obama is very anti-white, the media hype is just hype. United States Posted by blondemike on Apr 3, 2007 at …
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Actually I have perused the JHR of the IHR. The undergraduate library at Cal Berkeley had a subscription. Used to pick it up after I had finished w/left journals like Monthly review and Radical History Review for some sick laughs. The flip side of the arguments I have had with old Stalinists who had been active in the CPUSA who minimized (to say the least!) the GULAG camps and still in the 90's would utter that Trotsky was a Fascist. Used to have a copy of a book by Revilo P. Oliver. Put it next to, "The Myth of the Six …
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