When US President, racist, segregationist, eugenicist, and liberal Democrat Woodrow Wilson sent soldiers from the American Expeditionary Force to ‘negotiate’ the aftermath of the October Revolution in the USSR in 1919, the Indian Wars in the US were still underway, slavery had only recently been abolished, and the inconclusive end of the first global imperialist war---WWI, was setting up a sequel---WWII, to be fought.
Is your position here why I don't see you much in Counterpunch anymore? Yes, it's very weird that many in the US "Left" are taking the official State Dept. line on the conflict -- and I'm not talking about "liberals," but self-professed anticapitalist, anti-imperialists.... Go figure! Anyway, your essay here has helped my understand some things previously fuzzy in my head. Thanks!
Is your position here why I don't see you much in Counterpunch anymore? Yes, it's very weird that many in the US "Left" are taking the official State Dept. line on the conflict -- and I'm not talking about "liberals," but self-professed anticapitalist, anti-imperialists.... Go figure! Anyway, your essay here has helped my understand some things previously fuzzy in my head. Thanks!