In These Times

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• • 21 Apr 08
  • 10:46 am

  I write as a member of the Board of Directors and the program committee of the Left Forum. Bogdan Denitch and I were the founders of its predecessor, The Socialist Scholars Conference. Both of us spoke on panels at this year's Left forum. Ken Brociner's piece on our conference is a fairly accurate reflection of the discomfort a left-liberal might have experienced at our conference. Yes, it is a conference of radicals, but also includes some folks traditionally associated with the politics of Democratic Socialists. A representative group of participants was there from the Village Independent Democrats, AFL-CIO union staffers and …

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• • 27 Apr 08
  • 5:44 pm

  Enough has been said in these comments about differences between liberals and radicals on the Iraq war. But there are other differences worth mentioning: --neither Democratic candidate has departed substantially from the administration's Israel First doctrine. Even as rhetorically it supports a two state solution neither Bush nor the Democrats dare call for the dismantling of all Israeli settlements on the West Bank and Gaza as a condition for a peace agreement. Nor have they been willing to place any blame on the Israeli government's apartheid policies and stubborn refusal to even talk to Hamas. As Jimmy Carter is excoriated by …

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