The New Left Review’s Lily Lynch comments on its blog about the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico by a lone gunman whose motives remain unclear. The Western propaganda mill has expressed little regret about the shooting, characteristically dismissing Fico as a pro-Russian stooge for supporting an end tp Western arms shipments to Ukraine and an EU-brokered peace settlement. “Unlike uber-Zionist Victor Orban with whom he is often compared”, Lynch notes, “Fico has also criticized the hypocrisy of European leaders in refusing to acknowledge Israeli atrocities in Gaza.”
Fico’s party is a variant of rightwing populism, illiberal in regard to gay rights and other cultural issues and inclined to encroach on democratic right, but is widely supported for defending social programs and an independent foreign policy against its pro-Western neoliberal opposition. Fico's Slovak Social Democratic Party has governed the country for most of the past two decades. While the Western media outlets uniformly lament Europe’s highly polarized politics, Lynch says, they do not "stop to consider their own role in creating it. For just as the populist right have exploited ethnic divisions across Europe, the liberal centre has resurrected Cold War narratives that separate East from West, bringing this rhetoric to fever pitch.” Objections to the pro-NATO narrative promoted by the media “is tightly circumscribed (and) dissenters are tarred as foreign agents”, Violence against those such as Fico is “outwardly deplored” but “tacitly accepted”. Full: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/crosshairs -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30394): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30394 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106174437/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
