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Tariq,
I just wanted to drop you a line reminding you of what a fuckwit you are
on Syria. I can sort of understand why you would be affiliated with John
Rees's gang since these people at least have a patina of legitimacy from
the demonstrations they organized against Bush's war in Iraq. I hope
that they are paying you good money for speaking at the "Crossing
Borders" conference since it will cost your tattered reputation dearly.
But Tim Anderson is a rancid specimen who makes no bones about his
backing of Bashar al-Assad. Being an invited guest of a conference that
gives him a platform is like speaking at rally in 1938 in defense of the
Moscow Trials. Anderson is the master of the Big Lie. This is a guy who
writes articles for batshit Michel Chossudovsky's website claiming that
al-Assad's popularity was confirmed by his big victory in the 2014
"multi-party" elections in Syria. Surely someone as trained in
Chomskyism as you would understand the difference between real elections
and demonstration elections, right?
This absurd conference is co-sponsored by "Stopimperialism.org", the
website of a deranged propagandist named Eric Draitser who is ubiquitous
to CounterPunch. Draitser is indistinguishable from Pepe Escobar, Mike
Whitney and Andre Vltchek when it comes to these questions. In fact all
these people might be the sock puppets of somebody in a Moscow basement
on Putin's payroll for all I know.
Btw, no point in tattling on me to Jeff St. Clair again. For obvious
reasons, I stopped writing for CounterPunch long ago.
Regretfully yours,
Louis Proyect
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