William Bowles: These Sniveling ‘Lefties’ : What A Sorry State Of Affairs Comments

sdsds

Wed, 3 Feb 2016 12:23:53 +0000

stupid cunt

joe anon 1

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:16:23 +0000

scahill likes to appear serious and on tv.

DrS

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:23:09 +0000

It is the ideologically driven that must concern all of us as they are NOT pragmatic. They cannot think outside of the box. We must re-assert the Common Good as private/special interests have held sway for far too long now.

ringo

Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:20:43 +0000

THE LEFT AS LEANED SO FAR LEFT, IT.S FALLEN OVER.

socialite

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:56:58 +0000

Some if not a lot of these so-called lefties supported the Imperialist destruction of Libya! Racist and anti-Arab and pro-Israel.Democracy Now gave continous coverage of the deadly, counterrevolution that murdered hundreds of Africans living and working in Libya.Chomsky in the forfront.Socialist Worker's Party also cheering on imperialist aggression against Libya. I agree with the author , opinion about the U.S. left. It's our way or the high way.How do you follow a revolutionary party that have yet to liberate the working class in facist U.S. Scahill and Jones could learn a great deal about leading a revolution from Assad.But they won't because he's not white.

guest

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:18:29 +0000

Is this Doug Valentine? Love your work!

Doug Diggler

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:04:15 +0000

This pretty much proves that Jeremy Scahill is really a Left Gatekeeper if not a wholly bought establishment shill. Which would explain why his film about Afghanistan contains not iota about its model, the Phoenix Program of the VIetnam War.

Giorg Soros

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:54:30 +0000

LEFTIES ON THE MOVE: http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsi... RIGHTIES ON THE MOVE: The Tea Party of USA was actually started by the Big Pharmacy lobby[ies] PhRMA to block REIMPORTATION of U.S. medical drugs back into USA --at much lower prices-- for the benefit of the American people. The original tea party was a strategy of the big PhRMA to disallow Americans from buying the mountains of drugs they need, at reasonable re-imported lower prices, by bringing BACK HOME the drugs made in USA --that are sold in Europe at much cheaper prices-- and selling them to American consumers and patients at much low prices than the corporate asking price in the 50 states. The social engineers of the elite hidden societies, along with US intel agencies, got plenty of media fools to brand this cesspool of re-importantion blockers – as a radical wing of the Republican Party. They are in fact "shillers" against big government "socialist-commie" health funding. The tragic end result is a big statistical pie slice of geriatrics and pensioners who were hoodwinked into protesting in the streets –fatuously AGAINST their own BEST interests, in the favor of much higher costs in health and drug care. Sarah Palin became their face of change. Much as Obama became an alternative face of change. What has changed?

marcus

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:15:31 +0000

Bravo, Bowles. Your disgust at the Cruise Missile-enabling fake "left'' is a relief from the treacherous wolves in sheep clothing who give more destructive & effective support to the CIIA frame-up liars & mass murderers than the open rightwingers do by perverting labels like "left", "socialist'' ''progressive'' & ''alternative'' to spew the same lies & demonizations that are spewed by CNN, FOX, & the Stae Dept. against Gaddafi, Assad, & every leader who disobeys the CIA, using the same hypocritical "humanitarian" pretext for bombing hundreds of thousands of people to ''save them''. I first learned that the CIA prefers to peddle its lies through fake "left" frauds when I confronted those 'progressive' jackals in the 1960's even before the revelations that they were covertly run & funded by the CIA, when the covertly funded "Socialist" Party youth group L.I.D. infiltrated & tried to split & wreck our "unconditional U.S.withdrawal" anti-Vietnam war group by trying to impose their "don't withdraw; negotiate" (!?) slogan & peddling the counterpart of today's demonization against Assad, against the NLF Vietnamese patriots. Search: "Democracy Now:-Valued Cheerleader for War & Imperialism" , " 'Progressive' Journalism's Legacy of Deceit" , "CIA Foundation 'Left' Gatekeepers" , '''alternative" & "progressive" as a disguise for their

dahszil

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:09:45 +0000

refreshing criticism. thank you William Bowles.

Cassandra

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:12:28 +0000

A writer and 'soi-disant' long-time leftist who doesn't know how to spell Che's name? Seems odd. In fact, seems like a "tell."

Fitzhenrymac

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:52:04 +0000

Because he is not just criticizing Scahill and Jones.

Bowles was just being a silly opportunist in joining in the general media bashing of the left; in fact he specifically says “the bankrupt nature of left political activity in this country (and elsewhere in the ‘developed’ world).” That’s a pretty broad brush.

Other doubtful lines are “Now Assad’s credentials may or may not be up to the mark” and the ridiculously impossible “It’s the idea that we, that is the miniscule Western left decides on the fates of others. It’s outrageous!” and the equally silly and untrue “For as long as other countries have been having revolutions, we have been dismantling them in our critiques.” Does he still think what’s happening in Syria is a genuine people’s revolution?

Scahill was so out of line that it begs the question why? That’s the story Bowles should have investigated.

(By the way, Jones said he had no idea why he refused to be on the same podium as Agnes, he was just following Scahill. Now why didn’t Bowles jump on that?)

AuntieMavis

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:17:36 +0000

Make up your mind Fitz. You agree that Scahill was out of order trying to deny that any sarin used in Ghouta was used by the "rebels". The rebels are mostly fundy al Qaeda forces. So why vilify Bowles? He is right.

tael

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:38:37 +0000

Left??? What left? Lets take a very long look in the mirror, shall we..

Maria

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 06:15:26 +0000

Can expect from a Labour Party? Some rights for the working class what is now being stripped away by the Ultra right Wing. I have respect for Scahill, too bad he did not have a conversation with mother Agnes. At least Assad let the minority groups live in peace together. Are not always the Sunni groups who start the uprising in Syria, due to favortismn in job opportunities? Saudi Arabia must love it. Sunni dominated Turkey, so they jumped into the battle. I bet they regret that move. Right wing in Canada, people are having a hard time. Australia the same thing. The Netherlands, two last prime minister, right wingers, people have to tighten their belt, while the banks made big money, even the King got a raise. Germany right wingers too, not even a minimum wage was in place. Hollande making a disasterin France, in bed with Israel. France with Sarkozy who loved dropping the bombs on Lybia, when he was receiving money for his election from Gadaffi than the dictator was not too bad. Every where you look, hypocrisy all time high.

anne johnson

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:10:48 +0000

No, Mr Bowles. Don't ask people to turn a blind eye to the attacks on Syria. Surely we want Stop the War to take a clear lead in exposing our lying media. Not another conference or march up another hill only to go down again. And let's all take action to stop the war machine's destruction of other countries - not threatening us in any way. But what can you expect from a Labour Party/Trotskyist-led organisation!

htfd

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:07:38 +0000

This does have a rather odd order to it, doesn't.

Fitzhenrymac

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:53:01 +0000

Which Sniveling ‘Lefties’ Mr Bowles? Which chickenshit opportunists? Be specific Jones and Scarhill. Don't demonize the whole STW (Stop the War Coalition) of diverse groups, some left, some religious, some philosophical, some nationalist, some liberal, by using the same language as the right wing mass media. (You also show a strong American influence in your choice of words.) Your article shows a sad lack of research that would have given you the confidence to say, as Mother Agnes did, that the multicultural, secular socialist Syria was not so bad. (Perhaps not as good as Libya was and which you wrote far more authoritatively about) You would also have found out that Agnes has been reported in the media since at least March 2012 when she and other Syrian Christians warned that non-Arabs had been traveling around Syria trying to garner support for an insurrection and when Christians said no, threatening them. If you had bothered to visit the STW website you would have found that Scahill was their keynote speaker and a link to a statement by Mother Agnes. http://stopwar.org.uk/mother_agnes.pdf I agree, Scahill and Jones were out of line. They were probably influenced by their publishers and employers. Scahill is just about to release a documentary film. I would have loved you to have produced an expose of Scahill or Jones being a mole. That would have been worth the read.

DrS

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 00:00:09 +0000

The ME region will no doubt continue to be a major mess. Instability and volatility are everywhere in the region. No doubt, Israel and Saudi Arabia are being very combative and provocative. In the Western world citizens need to realize and understand this observation: "A democracy is always TEMPORARY in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government." At the present time, democracy does not exist in the Western world. It is currently on LIFE SUPPORTS including Canada under the Harper government. Ugh! All nations have moved from bondage to faith; from faith to greater courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence to into bondage/SLAVERY. We witness the Age of Lawlessness and the New World Order. Can it get any worse when ideologically driven individuals have it in for all citizens of this world!?!?!