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Showing Original Post only (View all)Don't link to COUNTERPUNCH. It's a far-RW racist trojan horse (No Click On It) [View all]
Last edited Mon Jul 27, 2015, 08:45 PM - Edit history (1)
Most DUers already know that Counterpunch has no credibility, but this new analysis is the final nail in the CP coffin. They draw you in with Chomsky or Amy Goodman but they mostly publish far-right, racist (white supremacist) authors.
ON EDIT: And clicking on CP gives them revenue so don't do it (Hat tip NuclearDem)
http://meldungen-aus-dem-exil.noblogs.org/post/2015/07/19/counterpunch-or-suckerpunch/
How Americas Best Political Newsletter Mainstreams the Far Right
CounterPunch, which bills itself as Americas best political newsletter, offering independent investigative journalism, tends to figure quite prominently in the reading lists of left-leaning activists, who doubtlessly appreciate its consistent antiwar stance, its critical analysis on US economic and foreign policy and US-sponsored Israeli apartheid, and the regular contributions from such leading Left writers as John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Paul Street, Jeremy Scahill, and Tariq Ali. Indeed, CounterPunch generally tends to be thought of as a Left media outlet. However, in writing for, and sharing articles published on, CP, Leftists are unwittingly helping to promote the agenda of the far right.
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In addition to the authors relied on by CP for its left cred, Americas best political newsletter also regularly publishes independent investigative journalism by a wide variety of white supremacists, including Paul Craig Roberts, editor of the white nationalist website VDare, Ron Paul (who poses for photo ops with neo-Nazis and warns of race war), and Alison Weir, holocaust denier Israel Shamir, and that perennial saboteur of the Palestinian solidarity movement, Gilad Atzmon, author of the racist The Wandering Who.
Although there are some who have expressed concern on this problematic mix, when I have raised this issue in discussions with others in left activist circles, I have often found that it is dismissed as a triviality. In these discussions, the white supremacist contingent tends to be attributed to an unwillingness to bow to political correctness or a mere desire to piss off liberals, and generally believed to be an insignificant deviation from an otherwise clear leftist editorial line, the sort of thing only an ideological purist could get excited about.
My own research into the editorial practices at CounterPunch shows otherwise. Not only have white supremacist authors long been a fixture at CP; their ideology is shared by members of the editorial collective. All in all, it is entirely reasonable to say that the formation of a Querfront (an alliance between the far right and the left) is a longstanding project of the newsletter, consistently endorsed by the decisions taken by CP editors and their own stated positions.
CounterPunch, which bills itself as Americas best political newsletter, offering independent investigative journalism, tends to figure quite prominently in the reading lists of left-leaning activists, who doubtlessly appreciate its consistent antiwar stance, its critical analysis on US economic and foreign policy and US-sponsored Israeli apartheid, and the regular contributions from such leading Left writers as John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Paul Street, Jeremy Scahill, and Tariq Ali. Indeed, CounterPunch generally tends to be thought of as a Left media outlet. However, in writing for, and sharing articles published on, CP, Leftists are unwittingly helping to promote the agenda of the far right.
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In addition to the authors relied on by CP for its left cred, Americas best political newsletter also regularly publishes independent investigative journalism by a wide variety of white supremacists, including Paul Craig Roberts, editor of the white nationalist website VDare, Ron Paul (who poses for photo ops with neo-Nazis and warns of race war), and Alison Weir, holocaust denier Israel Shamir, and that perennial saboteur of the Palestinian solidarity movement, Gilad Atzmon, author of the racist The Wandering Who.
Although there are some who have expressed concern on this problematic mix, when I have raised this issue in discussions with others in left activist circles, I have often found that it is dismissed as a triviality. In these discussions, the white supremacist contingent tends to be attributed to an unwillingness to bow to political correctness or a mere desire to piss off liberals, and generally believed to be an insignificant deviation from an otherwise clear leftist editorial line, the sort of thing only an ideological purist could get excited about.
My own research into the editorial practices at CounterPunch shows otherwise. Not only have white supremacist authors long been a fixture at CP; their ideology is shared by members of the editorial collective. All in all, it is entirely reasonable to say that the formation of a Querfront (an alliance between the far right and the left) is a longstanding project of the newsletter, consistently endorsed by the decisions taken by CP editors and their own stated positions.
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Don't link to COUNTERPUNCH. It's a far-RW racist trojan horse (No Click On It) [View all]
uhnope
Jul 2015
OP
You should read more. CounterPunch gives you news and info you won't find anywhere else.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#8
No, the OP says that there are way more wingnut/racist pigs posting there than there are lefties.
MADem
Jul 2015
#103
Counterpunch - How crypto-fascists and white nationalists are infiltrating progressive circles
kfreed
Dec 2015
#158
I like what he wrote about Don Siegelman and the ''corrupt Bush administration.''
Octafish
Jul 2015
#15
I haven't confirmed shit for you. Nor have you shown where you posted once in support of Siegelman.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#18
And if making up your mind is predicated in part on right wing and racist editorials
LanternWaste
Jul 2015
#148
No, just telling me to shut up is enough for me to see what kind of ''DUer'' posts, LanternWaste.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#149
Who would've guessed a Putin and Maduro apologia rag would be home to racist pieces of shit?
NuclearDem
Jul 2015
#5
VDare? Ugh! And PCR is an Infowars, JBS type. And unrepentant father of Reaganomics. Double Ugh. n/t
freshwest
Jul 2015
#7
Posters who insist on linking to that shit after they've been told about it should be banned.
NuclearDem
Jul 2015
#10
Never said it did. You must be used to putting words in other people's mouths.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#23
Absolutely--ND wins, OF comes off looking really bad, and JBerry gets a "Chuckles" prize for the
MADem
Jul 2015
#104
Is there some reason you're interested in linking to a front for white supremacists?
NuclearDem
Jul 2015
#14
There is no wonder about it, everyone here has noticed that too and yet the narrative goes on.
Rex
Jul 2015
#81
Jeff Blankfort is NO White Supremacist! His name does belong on that list and should be
2banon
Jul 2015
#68
Well you know how the Outraged here are always that way about others that are outraged!
Rex
Jul 2015
#84
BTW: The ''meldungen-aus-dem-exil.noblogs.org'' in the OP seems racist against Palestinians.
Octafish
Jul 2015
#30
Lists! Yes! Please add the New York Times to our Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
Karmadillo
Jul 2015
#47
Why are you guys so insistent on being able to link to white supremacists here?
NuclearDem
Jul 2015
#53
Authoritarians need to reaffirm for themselves occasionally their followers are still active and
polly7
Jul 2015
#135
Paul Craig Roberts, the first name on that list, is an anti-immigration white supremacist...
SidDithers
Jul 2015
#60
Please Remove Jeff Blankfort's name. He is Far Left, he's not RW. I know him personally.
2banon
Jul 2015
#63
Please don't think I think that Beltway Wisdom is the center and that deviating from it makes ...
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2015
#75
I have always thought that Counterpunch is an unselectively anti-establishment site that includes
LeftishBrit
Jul 2015
#93
Israel Shamir is a disgusting anti-Semite, and was used as a source on this site to defend Assange.
msanthrope
Jul 2015
#95
Why did Assange feel the need then to have his employee write such a disgusting defense?
msanthrope
Jul 2015
#100
Oh obviously, not wanting Paul Craig Roberts posted on DU means I just looooove Karl Rove.
tammywammy
Jul 2015
#131
Calling out white supremacist websites is just like the Holocaust and is anti-Democraticy!
Major Nikon
Jul 2015
#134
Presumably, if Stormfront published far Left Progressives, then linking to Stormfront....
shira
Jul 2015
#152
To some it seems like as long as that specific article isn't racist/anti-Semitic/homophobic
tammywammy
Jul 2015
#155
The people crying censorship don't seem to understand how these sites make money.
NuclearDem
Jul 2015
#156
+1. Looks like CP took the place of the crap that used to get posted here from wsws.
Tarheel_Dem
Jul 2015
#153