" Allegations of endemic left-wing anti-Semitism are a foul slander with an equally foul purpose. ".
Yet the mainstream news media in the United States supports just this obtuse point of view. Nobody has explained to me - a rather orthodox " democratic socialist " - why I have been banned at ABC on-line , banned at the on-line Brown Daily Herald, blocked from Cranston Patch and Warwick Patch , and the Warwick Beacon.
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Can a little clique of belligerent Zionists decide who to blackball ? Does the question itself smack of hateful " anti-Semitism " ? There should be no taboo questions in revolutionary socialist politics.
In past I would get a letter published every few months in the Providence Journal. But none since the start of the New McCarthyism. How would chief editor Alan Rosenberg explain this ? He who published " Free Speech for Everybody " editorial ! ( he was worried about right winger Mike Stenhouse's free speech rights The Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity is devoted to the ideals of Ayn Rand ) .
Should I type out my blog address it is immediately DETECTED AS SPAM . This CENSORSHIP goes way beyond any one obscure" leftist " writer. The World Socialist Web Site is itself a victim and has been reporting on ruling class censorship of the Internet for months now.
People with enormous wealth and power in government and prominent in news media should not be too quick to see themselves as victims of hateful prejudice. Their best and brightest for more than a century were socialist internationalists - not dupes of Biblical idolatry - today's nation state worship .
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