tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post2555144564665133794..comments2023-10-28T05:02:10.442-04:00Comments on Americans For Bosnia: "Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation" by Silber and Little [10]Kirk Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-28410715513963792272010-10-19T19:43:10.167-04:002010-10-19T19:43:10.167-04:00Found it. She's not really sycophantic or emo...Found it. She's not really sycophantic or emotionally driven, she's just a manipulative pusher of deceit.<br />"Chomsky’s criticism is laden with facts, a substance that seems to elicit ennui among contemporary French thinkers." I think it's more likely the absence of reliable facts and the ragbag of inaccuracy, innuendo and downright lies that induces ennui. Johnstone may not be waiting to hear him reappraise his analysis of Trnopolje but others of us are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-66045408289374986062010-10-19T19:33:00.755-04:002010-10-19T19:33:00.755-04:00I can't get the Counterpunch link to work for ...I can't get the Counterpunch link to work for me, but on the basis of what I found there instead, "Serbia surrenders Kosovo to the EU, I'd quarrel with Anonymous about Johnstone being driven by emotional issues.<br /><br />When she writes "An armed separatist movement, with heavy support from the United States, where an ethnic Albanian lobby had secured important political backing, notably from former Senator and Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole, carried out a campaign of assassinations in 1998 in order to trigger a repression which it could then describe as “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide” as a pretext for NATO intervention."<br />she's clearly up to her usual game of distorting reality for political purposes. She gives the impression of a rather cold fish. Which I guess you'd have to be to take the perverse wilfully cynical stance she does on for example the Bosnian rape camps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-2437560811781889852010-10-17T18:26:07.342-04:002010-10-17T18:26:07.342-04:00Anonymous--I would agree with you; her "analy...Anonymous--I would agree with you; her "analysis" is laughable and very Chomskyesque in that she present tenuous connections as if they are the only reasonable interpretation of selectively chosen, context-free facts.Kirk Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-50607321700002753612010-10-15T11:47:19.888-04:002010-10-15T11:47:19.888-04:00Gabrielle, I would be delighted to receive article...Gabrielle, I would be delighted to receive articles from you! I am sending you an email as well, so you'll have my email address to respond to.Kirk Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06879908614214050994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-52467917670663153192010-10-15T08:16:23.568-04:002010-10-15T08:16:23.568-04:00Kirk, thanks very much for this rerun - it's ...Kirk, thanks very much for this rerun - it's very useful to have this synoptic overview as a reminder. I've had to come and catch up in bursts as I've been distracted by other matters recently, but once again your hard work on our behalf is much appreciated.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-75011642753525390822010-10-12T04:30:34.919-04:002010-10-12T04:30:34.919-04:00Dear Kirk,
I am an intern at the Institute for Wa...Dear Kirk,<br /><br />I am an intern at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting office in The Hague, Netherlands. I would like to bring your attention to a recent article that we believe would be of interest to you. IWPR is working with journalists from the Balkans, training them and jointly producing reports and radio programs on justice and accountability. IWPR has been providing unique and continuous reporting and analysis on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia since 1995.<br /><br />Would you be interested in being sent IWPR articles dealing with the former Yugoslavia, or interested in republishing our articles to your blog?<br /><br />Bringing our stories to the attention of a larger audience is important to us and your consideration of this article would be a great help.<br /><br />Keep up the good work on your blog!<br /><br />Best,<br />Gabrielle<br /><br />gabrielle@iwpr.netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23301331.post-20562008627504471072010-10-09T07:31:00.365-04:002010-10-09T07:31:00.365-04:00DIANA JOHNSTONE
Why the French Hate Chomsky
http...DIANA JOHNSTONE <br />Why the French Hate Chomsky <br />http://www.counterpunch.org/johnstone06142010.html] <br /><br /><br />I think some of her criticism is driven by emotional issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com