Fever Swamp Left and the Anti-War Movement

Bit of a scary article. Especially that it tells you quite a lot about the major movers in the Anti-War movement. They quote extensively from this Hitchens' article at Slate. You probably can just skip to the Hitchens' link, it's pretty much the sole source of the title linked article.

The name of the reporter on this story was Michael Janofsky. I suppose that it is possible that he has never before come across "International ANSWER," the group run by the "Worker's World" party and fronted by Ramsey Clark, which openly supports Kim Jong-il, Fidel Castro, Slobodan Milosevic, and the "resistance" in Afghanistan and Iraq, with Clark himself finding extra time to volunteer as attorney for the genocidaires in Rwanda. Quite a "wide range of progressive political objectives" indeed, if that's the sort of thing you like. However, a dip into any database could have furnished Janofsky with well-researched and well-written articles by David Corn and Marc Cooper to mention only two radical left journalists —who have exposed "International ANSWER" as a front for (depending on the day of the week) fascism, Stalinism, and jihadism.

Nice company to keep. He goes further on the UFPJ, but you can read that yourself.

I suppose that many in the anti-war movement don't know who they have chosen to stand sholder to sholder with, but they may wish to see who history will associate them with. These aren't institutions I'd be named as supporting for any reason.

Don't miss the links at the bottom of the Hitchens' article to other Slate articles that he's published. I've read some and they're quite interesting.