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==============================**==============================**========== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. ==============================**==============================**========== As always, right to the point, Louis. Of course few people would openly dare to support Bashar or Ahmadinejad now, especially if they are in academia. But we have to read between the lines, oh but that's just TOO much to ask from most of the "leftists". Read this piece of propaganda (below) to see how fake-democracy talks are squeezed into the discussion when talking about Iran's and Syria's pro-regime demonstrations as if Mubarak didn't orchestrate pro-regime demonstrations (but apparently Angry Arab missed those pro-Mubarak protesters). If some particular tyrants can manage some pro-regime demonstrations, in case the tyrants are on the list of US government's enemies, then "Western" media has to cover those demonstrations extensively? Really? And this "leftist" rule is not a fake-democracy talk and a pro-tyranny propaganda? This rule is actually made by a bunch of "leftists" who all they have said about Iran during the last year is that "New Egypt is going to have a good relation with Iran's government," not a single word about the people's struggle and at the same time they have demanded a full coverage of pro-regime demonstrations! please connect the dots. http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/05/let-zionists-freak-out-some-more.html http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/04/zionists-will-freak-out-some-more.html http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-zionists-to-freak-out-some-more.html fake and shallow democracy talks when it comes to Syria's and Iran's pro-regime protests: " So it is now new at all for him. Now Anthony Shadid is a serious American correspondent whose writings I have consistently praised over the years, and unlike other Western media he covered the obvious: that there were tens of thousands of Syrians who demonstrated in support of the regime. That can't be denied. But Shadid added that those demonstrations were "orchestrated". But Anthony: is it not obvious that ALL demonstrations are "orchestrated", including protests by the opposition. Many Syrians yesterday emailed me to note to me that I was wrong if I suggested that all Syrians want Asad out. I know from my communications from Syrians and other visitors to Syria that many do in fact support the regime, while many Syrians want the downfall of the regime. I dont know the percentages of course." http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/06/syria-coverage.html And this one: "I of course, was planning to see how the Western media were going to cover the Iran protests. The New York Times has moved her Iran correspondent from...Toronto to...New York City, to get closer to the story. If Sarah Palin can see Russia from her window, Nazila Fathi can see Iran from her window in Toronto. But notice this: it was clear that the demonstrations in support of the regime yesterday were massive, and most Western media reported hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. The Washington Post said: " Hundreds of thousands of government supporters rallied in several Iranian cities against the country's political opposition Wednesday..." But Ms. Fathi saw a smaller crowd from her window in New York City: "Tens of thousands of pro-government demonstrators took to the streets of Tehran..." http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2009/12/iran-protests-covering-other-side.html More about Angry Arab: http://revolutionaryfesenjan.blogspot.com/2011/01/blind-tribalism-is-not-anti-imperialism.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
