counterpunch / british morning star publish article by holocaust denier

[ed miliband]

http://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/morning-star-publishes-holocaust-denier-israel-shamir-on-pussy-riot/


some of youse would probably like the cut of israel shamir's jib on pussy riot.

now the morning star seemingly made a ridiculous mistake which they've apologised for, but what's up with counterpunch? apparently this isn't the first time they've published pieces by anti-semites, and (again apparently) they sided with the anc on the lonmin massacre. i had 'em down as liberals, seems like they're actually some sort of red-brown shit.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

The late Alex Cockburn apparently tried to ally himself w/the far right. Paul Craig Roberts, Reagan's former finance minister and a far right winger is a frequent Counterpunch writer. Cockburn was a global warming denialist, came out against the Occupy movement and supported Ron Paul during the last several electoral cycles.

[Mass Grave Aesthetics]

so... counterpunch has shown it´s true colors.

[Agathor]

Counterpunch regularly published anti-semetic articles, so long as they were also anti-Israel. I'm not surprised the Morning Star also does this, as they are one of the worst examples of enemy-of-my-enemy-leftism, but Cockburn should have known better. Imagine what we would say if Fox News or National Review hired a holocaust denier.

[GPDP]

Seems to me like such organizations are more interested in giving a platform to contrarians rather than actual radicals.

[ed miliband]

Counterpunch regularly published anti-semetic articles, so long as they were also anti-Israel. I'm not surprised the Morning Star also does this, as they are one of the worst examples of enemy-of-my-enemy-leftism, but Cockburn should have known better. Imagine what we would say if Fox News or National Review hired a holocaust denier.

well exactly. had this come from the right there would be uproar, rightfully of course.

[ed miliband]

Seems to me like such organizations are more interested in giving a platform to contrarians rather than actual radicals.

counterpunch perhaps, but the morning star is very keen on toeing the pro-trade union bureaucracy line -- it's how, and why, they exist.