tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post7806352656229853388..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: I want to sleep with common peoplebobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-69829762578203377252010-02-01T16:52:02.949+00:002010-02-01T16:52:02.949+00:00Oops, THIS
is Terry's post I meant to link to...Oops, <a href="http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> <br />is Terry's post I meant to link tobobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-67107200313684157092010-02-01T16:50:42.911+00:002010-02-01T16:50:42.911+00:00Thanks Entdinglichung for that fascinating and dep...Thanks Entdinglichung for that fascinating and depressing snippet. What an upside-down world we live in. Rajapaksa's repression of the media in the election period was similar to the Honduran coup government's repression there, but while the left of the world made a big deal of the latter, no comments on Sri Lanka. (A brief glance at Socialist Unity, Liberal Conspiracy, MRZine and CounterPunch, for example: no mention of the Sri Lanka elections. Among the honourable exceptions are those bits of the Trot movement with Sri Lankan branches (CWI and FI).) And that Fatah is giving support to this authoritarian thug doesn't give any pause for thought to the anti-Zionist "anti-imperialists"... <br /><br />P.s. <a href="http://antigerman.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/more-notes-on-ultra-leftism-and-softcore-negationism/" rel="nofollow">Essential readings from Terry Glavin</a>.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-90013390242867435302010-02-01T10:04:46.836+00:002010-02-01T10:04:46.836+00:00thanks for the link Bobthanks for the link BobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-11943072369505370262010-01-31T11:16:38.175+00:002010-01-31T11:16:38.175+00:00probably interesting for you: Palestinians appeals...probably interesting for you: <a href="http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/12/25/palestinians-appeals-sri-lanka-muslims-vote-mahinda-rajapaksa" rel="nofollow">Palestinians appeals Sri Lanka Muslims to vote for Mahinda Rajapaksa</a> (Asian Tribune, 25.12. 2009)Entdinglichunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06100559259654777563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-9375590871638831742010-01-30T14:34:10.160+00:002010-01-30T14:34:10.160+00:00Thanks for the link, Bob.
There was more that I c...Thanks for the link, Bob.<br /><br />There was more that I could have said, but it's a blog post! Particularly on the differences between Iran and Iraq, where there wasn't the possibility of any organised internal opposition emerging, except along sectarian divides. The Afghanistan case was also different, in that the internal opposition was military, and happy to ally with the US.<br /><br />I got the sense that Hitchens was replaying arguments on Iraq, on which I agreed with him, but not taking into account the differences in the case of Iran.kelliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03503738414917449549noreply@blogger.com