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		<title>A Latin American Leftist&#8217;s Second Thoughts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eduardo Galeano disavows his leftist-beloved manifesto. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a00d8341c575d53ef0148c7f2992c970c.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233266" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a00d8341c575d53ef0148c7f2992c970c.jpg" alt="6a00d8341c575d53ef0148c7f2992c970c" width="297" height="292" /></a>“This brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America,” reads the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/184668742X"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Amazon description of Eduardo Galeano’s <i>The Open Veins of Latin America</i></span></a>, the book Venezuelan leftist Hugo Chavez presented to U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009. “It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.”</p>
<p>Published in 1971, <i>The Open Veins of Latin America</i> was a bestseller and has become a keystone of the left-wing canon on American college campuses. Trouble is, the book’s 73-year-old Uruguayan author now considers the book’s rhetoric “extremely leaden” and concedes that back in the day he didn’t know much about economics or the way the world works.</p>
<p>“I know it took real courage — even gallantry — for Galeano to publicly correct himself,” wrote exiled Cuban journalist <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/379158/idiots-lose-their-religion-carlos-alberto-montaner"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Carlos Alberto Montaner in <i>National Review</i></span></a>. “It’s not easy to admit when you are wrong. And it is even more difficult when you are a hero to so many, as Galeano has been.”</p>
<p>In 1996 Montaner teamed with Peruvian author Alvaro Vargas Llosa and Colombian journalist Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Perfect-Latin-American-Idiot/dp/156833236X"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot</i></span></a>. One chapter, “The Idiot’s Bible,” Montaner says,</p>
<blockquote><p>“was devoted to explaining what Galeano himself now confirms: that the author knew very little about economics, and what little he thought he knew was totally wrong.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The authors’ summary of Galeano’s book, “We’re poor; it’s their fault” even showed up in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/books/eduardo-galeano-disavows-his-book-the-open-veins.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>New York Times</i> piece by Larry Rohter headlined “Author Changes His Mind on ’70s Manifesto: Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins.’”</span></a> The article noted that <i>The Caviar Left</i> author Rodrigo Constantino had blamed Galeano’s analysis for many of Latin America’s ills and said the Uruguayan “<span style="color: #272727;">should feel really guilty for the damage he caused.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;">But the caviar left thought otherwise.</p>
<p>Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, who authored a foreword for <i>Open Veins</i>, told Rohter that Galeano “may have changed, and I didn’t notice it, but I don’t think so.” Michael Yates, of the leftist Monthly Review Press, told the <i>Times</i> that “the book is an entity independent of the writer and anything he might think now.” So in the style of Hillary Clinton, “what difference does it make” if the author changed his mind about his central thesis? Several professors told the <i>Times</i> that they would take account of Galeano’s views but others discount his change of mind.</p>
<p>“Rather than disavowing the book entirely,” University of Pennsylvania graduate student <a href="http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/much-ado-about-nothing-the-times-non-story-about-eduardo-galeanos-non-apology/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Adam Goodman wrote</span></a>, “it would seem Galeano offered a critique of it and its young author, with the benefit of hindsight and forty-plus years of experience, both lived and learned.” However, discussion of the book’s limitations, <span style="color: #424242;">“whether based on content, style, or in the framing, is admirable and potentially productive for the Latin American left.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Andy Baker, political scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of <i>The Market and the Masses in Latin America</i>, weighed in with a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/02/latin-americans-are-embracing-globalization-and-their-former-colonial-masters/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Washington Post</i> blog</span></a>. Baker noted that “</span>Latin America is the region that spawned dependency theory, which was the neo-Marxist body of scholarly thought that informed Galeano’s critique of international trade.” But despite Galeano, data shows that many Latin Americans are favorable toward international trade, multinational corporations, and the United States. “The most pro-American countries,” says Baker, “are those most victimized by U.S. military forays,” the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, for example.</p>
<p>When it comes to their economic ills, Baker explains, Latin Americans do not blame Spain, the IMF, Warren Buffett “or even the U.S. military, as Galeano did in his previous life.” Instead “voters in Latin America exact retribution against governments that oversee sluggish economies, and the ham-fisted attempts by Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro, to continue blaming Venezuela’s downward spiral on the United States are increasingly falling on deaf ears.” So for the University of Colorado political scientist, “Galeano’s decision to recant his old work in the face of a new reality and new evidence on globalization was intellectually brave and admirable. As it turns out, Latin American citizens were way ahead of him.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #212121;">So were authors such as Carlos Alberto Montaner and Alvaro Vargas Llosa, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Latin-America-Hundred-Oppression/dp/0374185743"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression</i></span></a></span>. So was Hernando De Soto, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Other-Path-Hernando-Soto/dp/0465016103"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism</i></span></a>. American professors willing to reconsider Galeano’s <i>Open Veins</i> should open their courses to works like this.</p>
<p>President Obama has not responded to Eduardo Galeano’s critique of the book Hugo Chavez gave him in 2009. Like Galeano, Obama shows little knowledge of economic classics such as F.A. Hayek’s <i>The Road to Serfdom</i>.  Obama already believed that the United States was essentially a colonial looter but unlike Galeano the president shows the inability to change his mind based on facts and history.</p>
<p>To publicly correct oneself, as Carlos Alberto Montaner noted, takes “real courage – even gallantry.” The President of the United States just doesn’t have it.</p>
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		<title>Dick Cheney – Obama’s worst nightmare – Telegraph</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Vice President Dick Cheney stormed the beachheads of the liberal US media again today with a fiery performance on ABC’s This Week. He offered a stinging rebuke to current VP Joe Biden’s ludicrous claim that Iraq may end up as one of Barack Obama’s “great achievements”, as well as blistering criticism of the Obama [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former Vice President Dick Cheney stormed the beachheads of the liberal US media again today with a fiery performance on ABC’s This Week. He offered a stinging rebuke to current VP Joe Biden’s ludicrous claim that Iraq may end up as one of Barack Obama’s “great achievements”, as well as blistering criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of terrorist suspects. He also launched a strike on Biden’s recent comment that another 9/11 scale attack was “unlikely.”</p>
<blockquote><p>“I just think that’s just dead wrong. I think the biggest threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think al Qaeda is out there — even as we meet — trying to do that. You have to consider it as a war. You have to consider it as something we may have to deal with tomorrow. You don’t want the vice president of the United States running around saying, ‘Oh, it’s not likely going to happen.’”</p></blockquote>
<p>The Daily Telegraph was right to name Cheney America’s most influential conservative in its recent ranking of the top 100. He was the first opposition figure of weight to seriously dent Barack Obama on national security issues when he unleashed a ferocious attack on the president’s policies last May in a major speech at The American Enterprise Institute. The speech was significant, because it sparked a largely successful counter-offensive against the Obama administration’s weak-kneed counter-terror strategy and dominated media coverage just after Obama gave a far less impressive address on the same issue across town at The National Archives.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100026007/dick-cheney-%E2%80%93-obama%E2%80%99s-worst-nightmare/">Dick Cheney – Obama’s worst nightmare – Telegraph Blogs</a>.</p>
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		<title>Candace de Russy: Hate-America Sociology &#8211; Minding The Campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a colleague forwarded to me a copy of an exam from an introductory sociology class found lying in a room at a public college in the east. It was graded 100%. The exam deserves to be quoted at length, as parts of it are virtually indistinguishable from the old Soviet agitprop of the Fifties: [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently, a colleague forwarded to me a copy of an exam from an introductory sociology class found lying in a room at a public college in the east. It was graded 100%. The exam deserves to be quoted at length, as parts of it are virtually indistinguishable from the old Soviet agitprop of the Fifties:</p>
<p>Question: How does the United States &#8220;steal&#8221; the resources of other (third world) [sic] countries?</p>
<p>Answer: We steal through exploitation. Our multinationals are aware that indigenous people in developing nations have been coaxed off their plots and forced into slums. Because it is lucrative, our multinationals offer them extremely low wage labor (sic) that cannot be turned down.</p>
<p>Question: Why is the U.S. on shaky moral ground when it comes to preventing illegal immigration?</p>
<p>Answer: Some say that it is wrong of the United States to prevent illegal immigration because the same people we are denying entry to, (sic) we have exploited for the purpose of keeping the American wheel spinning.</p>
<p>Question: Why is it necessary to examine the theory of cumulative advantage when it comes to affirmative action?</p>
<p>Answer: Because it is unfair to discredit the many members of minority groups that have (sic) been offered more life chances through the program.</p>
<p>Question: What is the interactionist approach to gender?</p>
<p>Answer: The majority of multi-gender encounters are male-dominated. for (sic) example, while involved in conversation, the male is much more likely to interrupt. Most likely because the male believes the female&#8217;s expressed thoughts are inferior to his own.</p>
<p>Question: Please briefly explain the matrix of domination.</p>
<p>Answer: the (sic) belief that domination has more than one dimension. For example, Males (sic) are dominant over females, whites over blacks, and affluent over impoverished.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2010/01/hateamerica_sociology.html">Hate-America Sociology</a>.</p>
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		<title>Joel Beinin Whines about Israeli Airport&#8217;s &#8220;Harassment&#8221; &#8211; by Steven Plaut</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why might a recent visitor of Israel's enemies be detained when entering Israel?

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<p>Being a leftist Anti-Zionist means not only never having to say you are sorry, such as when you get your facts all wrong.  It also means that you have an obligation to represent yourself as a victim of harassment.   Armchair martyrdom is as fundamental a part of leftist ideology as anti-Americanism and hatred of Israel.</p>
<p>In his now-famous essay from July, 1976, &#8220;The Intelligent Co-ed&#8217;s Guide to America,&#8221; Thomas Wolfe wrote about how desperately American academics wish to feel persecuted.  A pretense of being persecuted today seems to do wonders both for their ego and for their web traffic.  The entire “Zionist Lobby” is largely an invention by these same people, anxious to show that they are being oppressed by an evil nefarious conspiracy.  You just need to wave your stigmata and denounce the “Neo-Conservatives,” the “Rightwing McCarthyists,” and – of course the Jews.  Whining about being persecuted seems to be the leading participation sport of today’s far Leftists and the radical armchair postureurs.</p>
<p>As <a href="../2009/10/16/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-joel-beinin-%D7%92%E2%82%AC%E2%80%9C-by-steven-plaut/feed/">documented recently on this web site</a>, Joel Beinin, the Israel-hating pro-Hamas sometimes-Maoist professor of Middle East Studies at Stanford University is just such a persecution whiner.  Here is what we wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘“McCarthyism” seems to be Beinin’s third favorite “m” word, after Marxism and Mao, and he applies it liberally to anyone who dares to criticize him. Beinin wrote a 2004 article called “<a href="http://www.censoringthought.org/beinin.html" target="_blank">The New McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East</a>.” In it, Beinin denounced the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5176" target="_blank">Ford Foundation</a>’s decision to withdraw funding from any university grantee that finances the promotion of “violence, terrorism, or bigotry or the destruction of any state.” What worried Beinin was that such restrictions could potentially hurt a “Palestinian student group [that] called for the replacement of the state of Israel with a secular, democratic state,” meaning one seeking the extermination of Israel.’</p></blockquote>
<p>Beinin went on to declare that Bay Area Zionists silenced him and prevented him from giving a talk to a school in San Jose.  The San Francisco Chronicle checked and reported that no one at all from the local Jewish Community had even spoken with anyone at that school.</p>
<p>Well, the good professor is back.  Over the Thanksgiving weekend he widely circulated the following epistle, which we reprint for you here in full, spelling errors and all:</p>
<blockquote><p>26 November 2009</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I arrived in Israel at about 15:00 on Wednesday, 25 November afternoon to visit my mother, brother, and sister who are Israeli (and US) citizens resident in Israel since 1973.  My mother has been ill, and this visit was prompted primarily for that reason. I have visited Israel dozens of times before – most recently December 2008 – and resided in the country for extended periods on several different occasions.  Yesterday, for the first time since my first visit to Israel in 1965, I was detained without explanation at Ben-Gurion airport for nearly two hours and ultimately interrogated.  The questioners asked questions that they surely already knew the answers to.  The asked, for example, my profession and my email.  My position as Donald J. McLaughlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and my email are a matter of public record, easily obtainable from the website of Stanford’s Department of History.  The questioners also asked whether I had travelled (sic) to “other countries in the region” which, since they had my passport in their hands for the better part of two hours with all the relevant visa stamps, was also not obscure information.  My luggage was not searched nor was I asked any question remotely related to the security of Israel except whether I had traveled (sic) to Iran (I was there once, for two weeks, in 1970 when Israel had warm relations with the Shah’s regime).</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>It therefore appears that this “investigation” had no purpose other than to harass and intimidate me.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Upon leaving I was told that I would be contacted further by one “Amos” from the Ministry of Defense.  For my convenience, I was given his phone number: 054-*******.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History<br />
Professor of Middle East History<br />
Joel Beinin<br />
Contact in Israel: 054-565-2320</p></blockquote>
<p>The main reports about the horrific suffering by Beinin at the hands of the security personnel at Israel’s airport have been on web sites run by Israel’s own predominantly-Arab Stalinist communist party and on one of its front groups named “The Left Bank.”</p>
<p>Now the above Beinin hysterics about being “intimidated” need a dose of deconstruction.  Beinin routinely travels to countries that happen to be at war with Israel, and has visited Iran, which happens to be officially on record as calling for the annihilation of Israel and its population.  By his own admission, Beinin’s passport is bristling with visas from such countries.  One would expect even the sleepiest airport passport inspector at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport to sit up and take notice of someone coming into the country with such visas.  Most passport inspectors at Tel Aviv airport, by the way, are teenage girls.  So you can imagine the terror and intimation experienced there by the poor professor.</p>
<p>Now Beinin’s insistence that the airport security staff must have known who he is rings a bit curious.  I did a search of the Hebrew web, and &#8211; sure enough &#8211; there are some internet mentions of him in Hebrew, but almost all of those are on the web sites of communist party and its fronts, which the airport inspectors may not visit on a regular basis.  There <em>are</em> two mentions of Beinin’s getting sued by Los Angeles journalist Rachel Neuwirth for his posting false smears about her.</p>
<p>What about Beinin’s claim that being questioned about his travels in belligerent countries constitutes “harassment” and “intimidation?”   (We have only his word that the questioning took two hours, and no mention at all of his being offered cookies and tea; I have waited in that airport for longer just to get a guitar case out of the belly of a plane!)   Well, an acquaintance of mine named Julia is an Israeli Jew born in Libya, a fact noted on her Israeli passport, and you would not believe the hassle she goes through every time she wants to come to the United States for a visit!  My wife was questioned at length and searched at Tokyo airport after 9-11 because her passport says she was born in the Middle East.</p>
<p>More to the point, Joel Beinin is an anti-Israel hate propagandist, someone who has made a career out of rationalizing anti-Jewish terrorism and endorsing Arab demands for Israel’s annihilation.  Other countries routinely bar hostile propagandists for far less provocation.  Canada <a href="http://www.911blogger.com/node/19654">banned ultra-leftist</a> and Saddam’s agent George Galloway from entering, and also <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/10/04/peace-activists.html">banned some other radicals</a>.  Canada also banned a controversial rap group from entering.  The US banned Tariq Ramadan due to his terrorist connections.  It has banned others for security reasons, including Cat Stevens, the <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/idolchatter/2008/03/british-author-barred-from-ent.html">British author Sebastian Horsley</a>, a <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/04/canadian_psycho">pro-LSD Canadian psychologist</a>, and <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/israels-national-security-aide-barred-from-us">at least one Israeli</a>.  The UK <a href="http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/02/government-bans.html">banned radio host Michael Savage</a> (along with <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/16-banned-from-britain-named-and-shamed-1679127.html">15 other people</a>) for being insensitive to Moslems, and <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5709892.ece">tried to ban Dutch politician</a> Geert Wilders.  Egypt has barred Hamas members from entering.  The Ukraine <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1A1-D90K90UG1.html">banned the mayor of Moscow</a> from entering the country because of things he said.</p>
<p>Now as it turns out, Israel almost never prevents anti-Israel propagandists and anti-Semitic hate-mongers from entering the country.  For example, it rather stupidly allows lots of “anarchists” from the “International Solidarity Movement” and similar pro-terror groups to enter the country and then to attack its policemen and soldiers as their attempt to help Palestinian terrorists.  The only two anti-Israel propagandists of note who have been barred from entering Israel in recent years were: 1.  Norman Finkelstein, a Neo-Nazi who was fired by DePaul University and who was barred from entering Israel due to his intimate ties with the Hezb’Allah, and 2. Richard Falk, the anti-Semitic retired professor from Princeton who was barred from entering Israel as head of an anti-Israel UN propaganda “commission.”  (When Falk arrived earlier as a private person to give university lectures, he was admitted.)</p>
<p>Anti-Israel fanatics, like Noam Chomsky and the Swedish journalist who recently invented a medieval blood libel about Jews stealing the body parts of Palestinians, have been admitted to Israel freely, although they never would be if <em>I</em> had anything to say about it.  Even Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, whose nasty diatribe, <em>The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy</em>, has become the Koran for Israel-bashers and Jew-haters around the world, were welcomed in Israel for a speaking tour.</p>
<p>It goes without saying that Beinin has never expressed any criticism of the fact that Israelis are prohibited altogether from entering Iran and most Arab countries.  Some of those countries prohibit entry to Jews from anywhere.  In Saudi Arabia you will get expelled and beaten to a pulp if you have a Hanukka Menorah or a Christmas tree.</p>
<p>Of course the greatest irony in all of this is that Beinin <em>was not banned</em> from Israel at all, in spite of being a fanatical pro-terror anti-Israel propagandist.   He was simply interviewed by an alert young passport inspector, suspicious of all those visas in Beinin’s passport from countries seeking Israel’s annihilation.  For Beinin, however, the incident was a priceless opportunity to wave his stigmata and show the world what a persecuted martyr and victim he is.  His questioning in the airport proves he is being intimidated and harassed by them damned Zionists!</p>
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