The exquistely pro-government Artepolitica has a new post from a knuckle dragger called Eduardo Real in which he identifies the current upheaval in Iran as nothing more than the latest example of a series of US-organized “color revolutions” mounted against governments uncongenial to its interests. He lists five of these as having been successful: those in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Lebanon, and another seven as failures: those in Belarus, China, Burma, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Bolivia and Argentina (!). Commentary on this kind of stuff is really superfluous but I just can’t resist ….
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Sure, the March 14th movement helped get Syrian army out of Lebanon but apart from that I’d say that it would be news to both it and the United States that Lebanon is currently run by a government more favorable to its interests than those that preceded it.
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Excuse me for asking but when the hell was the attempt at a “color revolution” in Argentina? I have lived here for several years and I think I might have noticed if there had been one. Could he mean the eternal conflict between the government and some elements of the farming sector? Maybe he could. In that case it would be fun to know what elements of Argentina’s domestic agricultural and export policies have so displeased the US that it would go to the bother of organizing a “color revolution” against the government.
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I could go on but what would be the point? Capitalism is going through one of its worse ever crises, protesters are being shot dead on the streets of a country that many supposedly progressive commentators have a notable soft spot for and all the paladins of the zombie left can offer is paranoia, troofism and tales of vast global conspiracies with hidden hands wielding vast power to manipulate the stupid masses. And not a word about freedom.
Eamonn: Fijate la fecha: http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/rscs_csmArticle.shtml
Eduardo Real, qué payaso, por Dios.
Te invito a leer mi comentario sobre el tema Irán en mi blog.
Eamonn,
These kinds of reactions can be found all over the place. That they can be voiced with total disregard for the plight of the Iranian people fighting for democracy and human rights against such great odds and especially by those purporting to represent emancipatory politics is simply astounding. There are of course many, many folks on the Left who refuse to fall for such drivel. But there are enough who do to suggest that thought leaders on the Left need to urgently re-examine the moral and intellectual health of Left politics.
Meanwhile, the regime ordered the mosque ceremony scheduled for Neda — the 16-year-old innocent bystander murdered in cold blood by the basij — to be canceled. She was buried hastily in Beheshte Zahraa, the large cemetery to the south of Tehran. I wonder if Eduardo Real, et al approve of this crime because Neda was a “fashionista rebel,” a “rich northern Tehrani,” or an agent of imperialism trying to subvert a revolutionary government by way of a color revolution.