[Vision2020] The recent death of two leftists

[Joe Campbell]

According to The Nation's founding prospectus of 1865, "The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred."



On Aug 16, 2012, at 12:09 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:

> Calling the Nation a left of center publication is putting it mildly. It was founded in 1865 by abolitionists. Since 1900 it has become a far left publication. It supported Pol Pot, Lenin, Stalin and Ho Chi Minh.  They denied cambodian and Soviet genocide. It had active communists as writers. Being a former communist is another thing. Some of the original writers for National Review were former communists. Cockburn was defiantly anti Israel, but if you check him out on Google or Bing, you can come to no other conclusion but that he was also anti-Semitic.
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Gier, Nicholas" ngier at uidaho.edu
> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:49:36 -0700
> To: "Sue Hovey" suehovey at moscow.com, "Sunil Ramalingam" sunilramalingam at hotmail.com, "vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The recent death of two leftists
> 
>> Roger,
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>> You obviously don't read much Alexander Cockburn.  He was hired by the left of center journal The Nation as a columnist and he proceeded to write articles critical of every major writer on the Nation's staff.  He also wrote several columns against climate scientists. The uproar from readers was dramatic, but he was not fired as a result.
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>> Cockburn was definitely his own man and owed allegiance to no other, especially political parties.
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>> And please, Roger, quit calling those who dare to speak out against Israel as anti-Semites. That is simply beyond the pale.
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> A society grows great when old men plant the seeds of trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. 
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>> -Greek proverb
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com on behalf of Sue Hovey
>> Sent: Thu 8/16/2012 12:21 AM
>> To: Sunil Ramalingam; vision 2020
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The recent death of two leftists
>> 
>> And neither was William Raspberry a liberal.  The National Review might define him as one, but, speaking for myself only, this liberal found him arrogant.  Case in point...his final line in the article about Jim Comer.  Now there's a truly intelligent, compassionate liberal.  If one really wants to know James Comer, in his book Maggie's American Dream, he tells of his mother and her place in the forming of his educational philosophy.  Nice book, wonderful man.  
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>> Sue Hovey 
>> 
>> From: Sunil Ramalingam 
>> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 3:57 PM
>> To: vision 2020 
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The recent death of two leftists
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>> I thoroughly disagree with your assessment of Cockburn, Roger. I think it's nonsense and  utterly meaningless. How often did you read him? 
>> 
>> I looked forward to his Friday Counterpunch columns and will miss his brave writing. 
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>> Sunil
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>>> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:53:14 -0700
>>> From: lfalen at turbonet.com
>>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>>> Subject: [Vision2020] The recent death of two leftists
>>> 
>>> William Raspberry wrote with decency; a liberal, he was fair, and independent. Dead at 76. He said " I grew up in apartheid, and yet it never induced my parents to teach us anything else than that we were responsible for 0ur own behavior, for our own minds.
>>> 
>>> AlexanderCockburn He was pro-Communist, a Stalin apologist and an anti-Semite. A scoundrel. Dead at 71
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>>> Source- National Review
>>> 
>>> Roger
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