To those of you who can read Spanish I recommend following Luis D’Elía on Twitter. Why should he be of interest? Well, the rotund social activist is a prominent supporter of the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and on more than one occasion he and his followers have provided the street muscle to keep opponents of the government from holding demonstrations at sensitive locations.
The bêtes noires of the far left - the US and Israel - have rushed to bring aid to earthquake-devastated Haiti. So it won’t come as a surprise to learn that the counter-attack against these imperialist dogs has begun, led by Hugo Chavez.
Speaking on his weekly television rant, “Alo Presidente,” Chavez claimed that the real goal of the US was the military occupation of Haiti. Addressing President Obama with the racist pejorative “chico” - “boy” - he issued the following instruction: “Obama, send doctors, boy. Do you understand me? Send doctors, rescue workers, medicine, water, instead of sending soldiers.” (Click on the “shotlist” tab in the previous link to see this quote.)
One pressing matter which Chavez didn’t address is the punishing debt of $167 million which Haiti owes to Venezuela. Last July, the Paris Club agreed to cancel $214 million of Haitian debt, but no similar announcement has been forthcoming from Caracas, even after the earthquake. Perhaps Chavez has earmarked those funds for Hamas.
Eamonn McDonagh adds:
That’s not the half of it. According to this story in ABC he’s now accusing the USA of actually having deliberately caused the quake. And why would the US do a thing like that? It’s all part of a plot to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran by means of an earthquake attack. I kid you not.
El Comandante is showing increasing signs of not being right in the head.
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 ….
Continue reading ‘Crisis in Iran: A Reaction from the Peronist Left’
Karl Pfeifer draws my attention to this statement demanding the removal of Hamas from the EU terrorism list. Among those appending their signatures are New Left dinosaur Tariq Ali, King of the Not-In-My-Name Jews Ronnie Kasrils and uncomplicated antisemites like Greta Duisenberg, James Petras and Gilad Atzmon.
Viva, comrades, viva! I do hope none you forgot to send comradely greetings to Robert Mugabe on the occasion of his 85th birthday.
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
Gerhard Oberkofler, a retired Professor in the Austrian city of Innsbruck and a writer for the Stalinist website Kominform, concerns himself once again with “gangs of Israeli murderers.”
Osvaldo Bayer is an Argentine writer who made his name with a series of books about the massacre of ranch employees by the Argentina army in Patagonia in the 1920s. In recent years he has become something of a national guru on questions relating to human rights.
Continue reading ‘The Gaza Crisis: Nazi Analogies from Argentina’
This is a guest post by Michelle Sieff, Assistant Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Africa Institute.
Mahmood Mamdani, the eminent professor of Government at Columbia University, has published an appalling article on Zimbabwe in the London Review of Books.
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