[Peace-discuss] In defense of proper priorities and against virtue signalling: "foul language" is less important than fighting for Medicare for All and fighting against war

[David Green]

I don't think it's funding related. I think it's Portland related.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 8:45 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> David Green wrote:
> > It's an interesting development that Jeffrey St. Clair of Counterpunch
> > despises Dore. Unfortunately consistent with CP becoming an ideologically
> > lousy website, exposed by Trump era derangement.
>
>
> That's really sad; I remember when CP was much better and Jeffrey St.
> Clair's
> politics were properly ordered -- not being distracted by personalities
> and focusing
> more on issues instead.
>
> Is that shift funding-related? Is CP looking for funding from some outlet
> like the
> Ford Foundation (which funds Democracy Now and helps explain its sharp
> shift from
> exposing war motivations and debunking neocon lies to promoting war and
> repeating
> neocon lies[1]) or some other neolib/neocon-friendly source so that CP can
> continue?
>
>
> [1] See Russiagate coverage and alleged Douma "gas attack" coverage as a
> couple of
> examples. These happen to be among the chief reasons Aaron Maté cited for
> leaving
> Democracy Now. He would go on to win an Izzy award for his Russiagate
> exposés and
> Maté has said on Jimmy Dore's show that Dore called out the Douma scam
> before Maté did.
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