9-11 at fourteen: spectacle commodified
Bill Weinberg What do we do about the 9-11 conspiranoids? Just posted to Facebook: It’s a serious question. On Sept. 11, a meme appeared on my wall reading: “NEVER FORGET:…
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CounterVortex on one-month hiatus
CounterVortex will be on hiatus through mid-November, as your editor Bill Weinberg will be traveling in Peru, gathering material on indigenous and campesino struggles against corporate land-grabs for oil and mineral exploitation….
Revolution in Syria and Turkey: mutual betrayal?
Bill Weinberg Assad’s sham elections blocked in Rojava In addition to “co-existence” agreements with remnant pro-regime elements in places such as Qamishli now breaking down, autonomous authorities in Rojava did not…
Assad’s useful idiots protect chem attack base
Bill Weinberg Against “leftist” monsterphilia… Well said, Uri Avnery, from his Gush Shalom website—posted last November, but still all too relevant: I see on the internet that many well-meaning people…
Obama and Romney both fudged facts on Libya
Bill Weinberg The Libya gaffe: Republican vultures descend The perennially sneering Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post’s Right Turn blog also turns to the transcript from the Sept. 12 Rose…
Assad’s radical right admirers in Charlottesville
Bill Weinberg Syria and the red-brown alliance Neo-Nazi support for Bashar Assad, of course, makes perfect sense. (We hope you caught that open enthusiasm for poison gas in Brandon Wall’s…
Great Power betrayal to re-unite Syrian revolution?
Bill Weinberg Syrian voices on Aleppo From Leila al-Shami on openDemocracy: As liberated Aleppo was falling, its horror broadcast by media activists in real time, thousands across the world took…
Latest NYC terror scare linked to attempted coup in Trinidad
Bill Weinberg Right on cue… …the conservative Counterterrorism Blog starts squacking about the threat of “homegrown terrorism.” Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? Until someone demonstrates otherwise, we think…
Government plans “cognitive infiltration” of conspirosphere
Bill Weinberg Am I a “cognitive infiltrator”? Please vote here. JG this is new? Maybe for Obama. I’ve always been convinced, and posted here, that the truthers were being pumped…
SPLC capitulates to Red-Brown axis
Bill Weinberg New Politics calls out SPLC self-censorship Charles Davis in New Politics provides “An Inside Look at How Pro-Russia Trolls Got the SPLC to Censor a Commie.” The commie in question…
Transfer of Homs: the beginning of the end?
Bill Weinberg Syria: new Islamist ‘Revolutionary Covenant’ ices Qaedists Five Islamist formations in Syria have issued a “Revolutionary Covenant” rejecting “extremism” and the presence of foreign fighters, and pledging a commitment to a…
Erdogan dictatorship in wake of coup attempt?
…that criticized a recent judicial law drafted by Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK party,” the Association of Judges and Prosecutors. (Jurist) Bill Weinberg Erdogan dictatorship further consolidates Amnesty International says it has…