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lproyect

The Unrepentant Marxist

Website: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com

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• Syria wrap: Grumbling This won't be easy, NYT's Bill Keller suits up for another Mid-East war
  • lproyect May 6, 2013 at 10:03 am with 3 replies

    Just a word on this business about the FSA using Sarin. The charge is made by Carla Del Ponte, whose background is quite shady.

    Carla Del Ponte investigated over illegal evidence

    Former war crimes prosecutor accused of allowing bullying and bribing of witnesses in trial of alleged Serbian warlord Vojislav Seselj

    Ian Traynor, Europe editor
    The Guardian, Wednesday 18 August 2010 13.12 EDT link to guardian.co.uk

    Carla Del Ponte, the former war crimes prosecutor who put Balkan warlords and political leaders behind bars, is to be investigated over claims she allowed the use of bullying and bribing of witnesses, or tainted evidence.

    Judges at the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague today ordered an independent inquiry into the practices of Del Ponte and two prominent serving prosecutors, Hildegard Ürtz-Retzlaff and Daniel Saxon, after complaints from witnesses that they had been harassed, paid, mistreated and their evidence tampered with.

    It is the first time in the tribunal's 17 years in operation that top prosecutors have faced potential contempt of court rulings.

• The Fog of Occupation: An interview with Dror Moreh, director of 'The Gatekeepers'
  • lproyect February 1, 2013 at 7:45 am

    link to louisproyect.wordpress.com

• For Lena Dunham, Palestine is invisible
  • lproyect December 8, 2012 at 9:55 am

    Bravo!

    Lena Dunham is an entertainment establishment figure, not that much different from Jerry Seinfeld or Madonna despite the outsider, hipster posing.

• Is the 'New York Review of Books' afraid of Islam?
  • lproyect November 4, 2012 at 7:39 am with 3 replies

    I think the NYR is simply reflecting the consensus of elite opinion on the Arab Spring, which amounts to buyer's remorse. There were high expectations that somebody like Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi would emerge clutching a copy of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" in one hand and the phone directory of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in the other. Nowhere has the disappointment been keener than in Libya where the militias are Washington's worst nightmare. What is going on here? We expected these people to turn in their guns and follow their leaders obediently. Maybe decades of dictatorship has made them unruly. That is one of the reasons there has been no support for the FSA in Syria. Despite the bleating of the pro-Assad left, there has been no real support for the overthrow of Assad.

• If '5 Broken Cameras' wins an Oscar-- then will you end the occupation?
  • lproyect June 6, 2012 at 9:11 am

    link to louisproyect.wordpress.com

• '5 Broken Cameras' is reminiscent of 'The Battle of Algiers' (but the 'NYT' can't tell you that)
  • lproyect June 1, 2012 at 9:31 am

    link to louisproyect.wordpress.com

• Barghouti: Attacks on the Penn BDS conference reveal panic that Israel is losing hearts and minds
  • lproyect February 3, 2012 at 9:43 am

    Turns out Gur is also a supporter of Lawrence Summers "theory" of why women are not men's equals:

    “Men and women are in so many ways similar, but it so many ways different,” began Dr. Ruben Gur, Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Behavior Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gur gave a brief, but compelling, history of gender research when it comes to the brain. He was among the first scientists to study female brains – which didn’t happen until the ’70s (previously, women were considered too variable to be subjects of scientific research in most areas besides reproduction).

    full: link to theglasshammer.com

• When hope is lawful
  • lproyect November 25, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    I don't think that Chomsky is perceived so much for his "solutions" to the Mideast conflict as he is as a critic of Zionist brutality. Chomsky says things like this to thousands of students everywhere who have never heard anything like it before. This is his real contribution, and nothing else:

    Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of course, a serious crime. The editors of the London Guardian are quite right to say that "If an armed group of Somali pirates had yesterday boarded six vessels on the high seas, killing at least 10 passengers and injuring many more, a Nato taskforce would today be heading for the Somali coast." It is worth bearing in mind that the crime is nothing new.
    For decades, Israel has been hijacking boats in international waters between Cyprus and Lebanon, killing or kidnapping passengers, sometimes bringing them to prisons in Israel including secret prison/torture chambers, sometimes holding them as hostages for many years.

• Mock checkpoint brings the experience of Palestinian students to Columbia University
  • lproyect November 21, 2010 at 9:01 am

    When I went to work for Columbia University 20 years ago, I would be losing the kind of money I used to make working at places like Goldman-Sachs. There are obviously other rewards. Bravo, Columbia students!

• Doron Spielman Doron Spielman
  • lproyect October 28, 2010 at 4:24 pm with 1 replies

    I had my own run-in with this guy a while back:

    link to louisproyect.wordpress.com

• In the Wake of 9/11, Israel Put Iran into the 'Axis of Evil'
  • lproyect September 11, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    This more properly should have been made as a comment under the post here about Martin Peretz's Bard College talk but I wanted to make sure that it is picked up by folks who would be tending to look at the latest addition here. As a Bard graduate who has been challenging the Zionist agenda at the school for a number of years, you might be interested in reading this:

    link to louisproyect.wordpress.com

    It includes a video interview I conducted with Joel Kovel.

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