August 2023

EDITOR—George Galloway, who knew Hugo Chavez well and spent two weeks working on his campaign in Venezuela last year, says the Venezuelan leader stood for the kind of things Labour used to stand for. His opponent in this dialog, a Republican politician, describes Pres. Chavez “as a despot” who “stole from some to give to others.”Pres. Chavez died on March 5, 2013. Half of this program is straight pro-capitalist propaganda, since Galloway’s views had to appear “balanced” in the opinion of Channel 4 (UK)’s managers.

MAX BLUMENTHAL—According to Kennedy, “everybody [in Jenin] is involved in bomb making” – there are no civilians there at all, therefore all are legitimate targets. He did not seem to know that the Palestinian campaign of suicide bombing ended well over 15 years ago, or that Israel’s primary concern in Jenin was with the proliferation of armed militias defending their territory from settler and military incursions.

MIKE KRUPA—In the statement quoted above, Robert F. Kennedy went on to state: “Our objective is clear. It is to facilitate the reconciliation of Eastern and Western Europe in association with the United States. This is the only sure guarantee against nuclear war whether by design or by accident. It is also the surest means of fostering our common prosperity.” These are words that in no way have lost their relevance and there is no better place to make the case for rescuing civilization from the apocalypse of nuclear war than Warsaw, which still bears the scars of total annihilation resulting from a politics of genocide, terror, subordination, hubris, and totalitarian ideology.