Comments on: Nonviolent Imperialism

By: m.idrees

m.idrees — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:06:11 +0000

There’s no contradiction there, unless you see US elite as a monolith. He may be opposed to Mubarak, but he is close friends with neocons, and is even represented by their publicist, Benador Associates. He also participates in their regime change rallies.
http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=27

By: Tom Paine

Tom Paine — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:46:23 +0000

Michael Barker seems a bit overwrought about all this, but whatever his motives, he’s not getting a lot of his facts straight. Take one example. He trashes the celebrated Egyptian dissident Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim as having “excellent democracy manipulating credentials,” and appears to claim that Ibrahim’s Ibn Khaldun Center in Cairo was part of some nefarious scheme by the U.S. government-funded National Endowment for Democracy. That hardly makes any sense, given these facts: The regime of the Egyptian dictator Mubarak had Saad Ibrahim imprisoned and tortured for having tried to exercise his free speech rights, and his Center was physically trashed, all as part of the regime’s ongoing repression of political rights in Egypt. Would Barker care to explain just why a regime supported by the U.S. government to the tune of over a billion dollars a year would abuse and repress dissidents who were supposedly in cahoots with the U.S. government? But that’s only one of a host of contradictions in Barker’s frenetic project of denouncing Stephen Zunes and everyone else, it seems, who’s trying to help nonviolent dissidents around the world. A strange jeremiad to be pursuing, in a world that’s way too full of violent revolt and conflict.

By: Michael Barker’s Nonviolent Imperialism « what’s left

Michael Barker’s Nonviolent Imperialism « what’s left — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:25:17 +0000

[...] Michael Barker’s Nonviolent Imperialism Filed under: Belarus, Civil Society, Color Revolutions, Imperialism, Iran, Myanmar, Non-Violent Direct Action, Zimbabwe — gowans @ 12:25 am Nonviolent Imperialism [...]

By: Nonviolent Imperialism: Major Revision « The Fanonite

Nonviolent Imperialism: Major Revision « The Fanonite — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:59:35 +0000

[...] 10, 2008 A revision to Michael Barker’s earlier article. On March 8, 2008, I wrote that Professor Stephen Zunes was correct to point out that Stephen Gowans was mistaken to [...]

By: Michael James Barker’s Weblog

Michael James Barker’s Weblog — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:55:11 +0000

[...] Nonviolent Imperialism: Zunes on Gowans, The Fanonite, March 8, 2008. [...]