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Vijay Prashad: [Patrick] Cockburn’s writings are not of the genre that
has come to be called “hotel journalism”—stories that come to reporters
as they lounge in 5-star hotels—nor is it “embedded journalism”—stories
written by reporters who come to see the world through the eyes of the
troops who protect them.
http://www.frontline.in/world-affairs/rise-of-the-jehadis/article6632703.ece?homepage=true
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The November 6 London Review of Books has published Patrick Cockburn’s
latest article
(http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n21/patrick-cockburn/whose-side-is-turkey-on),
‘Whose Side is Turkey On?’. Now, as I support the struggle of the Syrian
Kurds, led by the PYD and its armed militia, the YPG, against ISIS’
genocidal siege, I have no interest in defending Turkey’s shabby role in
this, even if I think both the US and Turkey, in their current
difference on this issue are both being totally cynical in their
different ways. So this critique will not deal with these issues.
Unfortunately, the angle from which Cockburn criticises Turkey is full
of the same contradictions that significant parts of the left espouse,
basked in an overall hostility to the Syrian revolution. Valid criticism
of Turkey’s sabotage of the defence of Kobani – connected to Turkey’s
own oppression of its Kurdish minority – is mixed in with criticism of
Turkey for allegedly wanting to help overthrow the Syrian tyranny of
Bashar Assad. As if there were something wrong with wanting the
overthrow of a tyrant who has burnt his whole country, sending 1.5
million Syrian refugees into Turkey.
full:
http://mkaradjis.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/critique-of-patrick-cockburns-whose-side-is-turkey-on/
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This is what passes for journalism these days:
"But in Syria, Washington’s policy is the exact opposite: there the main
opponent of ISIS is the Syrian government and the Syrian Kurds in their
northern enclaves. Both are under attack from ISIS, which has taken
about a third of the country, including most of its oil and gas
production facilities."
See, Assad is the "main opponent" of ISIS, even if in over two years
there has been a single major confrontation between the two. Why mention
the sustained combat between ISIS and the FSA and Islamic Front.
Remember this is the same patrick cockburn who described the surrender
of one beleaguered village to the combined forces of the Assad regime
and Hizbullah as a "peace deal".
No, I will not link anything that he writes.
(Idrees Ahmad on Facebook)
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Commentary on a Patrick Cockburn commentary
(http://louisproyect.org/2013/12/17/commentary-on-a-patrick-cockburn-commentary/)
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