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• • 28 Jul 09
  • 10:55 am

  Via http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DemocraticLeft/ http://machetera.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/billy-joya-cranks-up-the-killing-machine-in-honduras/ Billy Joya cranks up the killing machine in Honduras July 27, 2009 · 1 Comment Monday, July 27, 2009 Infiltrations, Murders and Attacks on the Honduran People ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Honduras claims that FARC is financing Zelaya http://faustasblog.com/?cat=410 Catracho79 Says: July 28th, 2009 at 12:33 am Im an Honduran, living currently Honduras, I like reading your blog everyday…and congratulate doing a excellent job…here is some scans of the receipts of those receipts that you mention… 16 pg. pdf after you d/l it. (FARC's latest violence, http://ww4report.com/node/7624 , Colombia: FARC assassinate indigenous people in Antioquia M.P.) http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m0fmmm4zdkz Honduras claims that FARC …

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• • 11 Feb 09
  • 4:00 pm

  The Revolutionary Communist Party, Workers World Party and the ISO, that cuddly mix of Stalinist, Maoist and Trotskyist loons egged on the rioters in Oakland after this police killing. What is a democratic socialist journal I've read since the late 70's doing publishing Bill Ayers who to this day is hostile to democratic socialiism/social democracy and left-liberalism?

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• • 11 Apr 07
  • 12:37 pm

  "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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• • 11 Apr 07
  • 12:44 pm

  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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• • 11 Apr 07
  • 1:41 pm

  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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