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Posted November 8, 2001
Anti-Republican?
[I] ... have been wondering where were all of you antiwar people when Clinton was sending troops to Somalia, Kosovo, etc., bombing aspirin factories the day Monica testified? ...Could it be that you are only anti-Republican?
Eric Garris replies:
We were right here. We were very much against the invasions and bombing of Somalia and Kosovo. (PBS featured us in a show they did about people opposed to the Kosovo War.) We are no fans of the warmonger Clinton. I myself am a Republican.
Protest.net
Great
site. Do you know of some websites
that list the time and day for
antiwar protests.
~ David F.
The "Backtalk" editor replies:
The "(peace symbol) Actions" icon on the left side of our main page links to Protest.net's antiwar page.
Unwise to Disavow the Left
I enjoy your site very much but feel that a broader spectrum of antiwar viewpoints is needed. Your site mainly represents the libertarian viewpoint which is fine, but it is unwise to disavow peace activists on the left if ending the war in Central Asia is really your goal.
Your news coverage is excellent and essential for everyone to read, but organized protests against the war must be organized on a single issue platform to unite all diverse but antiwar viewpoints, if this counterproductive and increasingly dangerous war is to be prevented from escalating into an unimaginable disaster for all of humanity. That is the US government's present course, and on that many if not most of of us can agree.
We can discuss the finer points later but let's all join together with antiwar activists that include everyone from Marxists and pacifists to liberals and libertarians, from the US and all around the world, and work to stop this irrational war now.
Eric Garris replies:
I agree that we need a broad-based movement. We feature many on the left as well as the right and libertarian. In the past week or so, we have featured Alexander Cockburn, Robert Scheer, Geov Parrish, David Corn, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, Jeffrey St. Clair, Ramzy Baroud, John Pilger, Molly Ivins, George Monbiot, Sean Gonsalves, Stephanie Salter, Tariz Ali, Norman Solomon, and many others. If you have any suggestions for articles or columnists we should be featuring that we miss, please send them along.
Manchurian Candidate
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of October 31, "Attack of the McCainiacs":]
Really enjoyed your article. Yep, he's a nutball, all right! I'm waiting for the Manchurian Candidate side of McCain to show up. I'm convinced he is one! He's diabolically evil and programmed to be so, I'm thinking.
Many People in Brazil
I'm
from
Brazil
and
I've
read
[Harry
Browne's
guest
column
of
September
12,
"When
Will
We
Learn?"].
...Many,
many
people
in
Brazil
think
exactly
what
you
are
saying.
Congratulations:
you
are
doing
your
country
a
service.
~
Al
C.
Black Boxes
Four plane crashes on 9/11 and no information on the black boxes? Sound a little fishy to you? Maybe when they do "find" them, the missing portions of the Watergate Tapes will be on them. I do not believe anything that our government says anymore. I could watch the televised news 24 hours per day and still get less information than when I go to your website for 5 minutes. Keep up the good work....
McCain & the Hopis
[Regarding Justin Raimondo's column of October 31, "Attack of the McCainiacs":]
Another excellent piece.... I knew little of McCain, and will grudgingly admit to voting for him in the primary. (Sorry!) In my ignorance I just thought the name of George Bush was so bad (two previous generations arming Americas enemies) that anything would be better. Now I know better.
Another testament to McCain's strong moral character are his recent decisions to forcibly relocate thousands of Hopi natives to contaminated radioactive land to help Peabody Coal with their strip mining initiatives:
http://www.blackmesais.org/mccainsolution.html
http://www.aics.org/BM/bm.html
~ Lukas S.