"radical multiculturalism, " would that be a synonym for postmodernist, relativist defenses of female genital mutilation, and wearing a burka? Michael Parenti is a Stalinist. Back when he was a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to prop up an isolated Communist Party (PDPA, read an acct. by a Pakistani socialist named Raja Anwar, "The Tragedy of Afghanistan, preface by ex-Trotskyist academic Fred Halliday, Verso Books) riven into two, murderous, fratricidal factions, he defended the intervention. I've read his books...same retrograde polemics of the type published by the CPUSA back when threy were …
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http://en.allexperts.com/e/m/mi/michael_parenti.htm Hail Milosevic, says Parenti! Hail the Chinese rape of Tibet! >...In the era of Mikhail Gorbachev, Parenti was highly critical of the USSR's reformist moves of "perestroika" and "glasnost", arguing that these had the effect of introducing capitalism into the country. He was critical of critical revisionist histories of Joseph Stalin and has maintained that accounts of his repression are regularly exaggerrated both in Russia and in the West. Parenti argued this most explicitly in Blackshirts and Reds, where he cites J. Arch Getty to put the number of executions in the Great Terror at 799,455. Getty's numbers concern recorded …
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Re:>...Ergo for Saddam Hussein and Khaddafi of Libya, both good socialists according to Parenti. I opposed all the military actions against all of the above but did so without pretending they were not mass murderers. I did dispute the Iraq gassing claim based on a US Army War College study showing Iran as the culprit. Another thing Parenti said on KPFA that afternoon. Totally denied that Saddam Hussein had many volumes in his library on Stalin, who he admired. For corroboration on this, see this interview w/Arab journalist, Said Aburish http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saddam/interviews/aburish.html On that bogus US Army War College paper blaming the …
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On a late March morning fifteen years ago, as the war between Iran and Iraq was winding down, the Iraqi army began an artillery barrage on Halabja, a Kurdish city situated about fifteen miles from the border with Iran. The people of Halabja first took that attack, and the subsequent bombing by the Iraqi air force, as a routine matter, the everyday consequence of living in a stronghold of a Kurdish Peshmerga militia then allied with Iran. But as they gathered in their shelters, it quickly became apparent that there was something dreadfully different about this bombardment. Heavy, dark yellow clouds …
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The Evidence I will begin with a brief summary of the volumes of evidence regarding what took place that day fifteen years ago in Halabja, as well as in other poison gas attacks on Kurdish civilians, and who was responsible for what happened. As soon as word of the gassing reached Iran with the fleeing residents of Halabja, the Iranian government brought international news media to the scene, and film of the devastation was soon aired on newscasts around the globe. Those horrifying scenes made Halabja into the Guernica of the Kurds, symbolizing the entire Anfal campaign of annihilation. As powerful …
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