John Pilger: secretary of the Hugo Chavez Fan Club
I've written a review of John Pilger's The War On Democracy. I think Pilger's heart is in the right place when he criticises America's interventions in Latin America. But he's never been strong on political analysis, tending to put a tick where America puts a cross. That doesn't really explain what's going on, which is a pretty big problem if you put your faith in any individual like Hugo Chavez.
How the left is living off Latin America
posted by Robert @ 8:18 PM
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"In the present era, when political struggle is a nostalgia trip, a disoriented left looks to any semblance of resistance elsewhere to cheer themselves up rather than seriously question what happened to political struggle in their own ‘backyard’."
Yes, the disoriented left should wise up and work on conferences with Hill-Knowlton, the PR firm that cooked up the big lies that helped launch the first war against Iraq. Not only that, they can make some serious money prostituting themselves in the process like Furedi's sect-cult.
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