Harry's Place

This is a guest post from Howie’s corner
At the weekend millions of ordinary Pakistani men and women defied the threats of the Taliban and went to the polls to cast their vote. A small number paid for that right with their lives.  They are not alone:

In Bangladesh thousands of supporters of [...]

Galloway’s rants are getting increasingly bizarre. Here is his summary of the situation in Korea, shared with Press TV’s viewers:
“North Korea has no intention to harm any of us. North Korea’s problem is with South Korea.
So that’s ok then.
South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to [...]

At Press TV, a website of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Gilad Atzmon defends George Galloway’s debate walkout while spinning his conspiracy theory that Zionists actually control the anti-Israel BDS campaign.

Mahmood Naji, the founder of Oxford Debates, has written a very eloquent open letter expressing his disappointment at George Galloway’s decision to refuse to debate an opponent after discovering he was Israeli.  He concludes, with understandable irritation:
 As the organiser, am I to know about every one of your views? Should I let you know if [...]

I have been prompted to reread Owen Jones’s article on George Galloway, after seeing some rather barbed exchanges between him and his critics.  Rob Marchant, who said it was a bizarre piece, apologizing for Galloway, was informed by Jones that he was ‘smug and not very bright’.  Oliver Kamm was also dismissed as ‘not worth debating’, after [...]

Since the SWP has been a prominent issue throughout the history of Harry’s Place, I thought this obituary of the SWP by Paul Anderson might deserve some attention:
Here is his conclusion:
after 9/11, the SWP threw itself into anti-war activism – and found itself new allies in the form of the Muslim Association of Britain and [...]

As you watch this informative colloquy on “gun rights” between CNN’s Piers Morgan and professional wingnut Alex Jones, keep in mind that Jones once got George Galloway to agree that a “false flag” terror attack by the “military-industrial complex,” to be blamed on Iran, was a “very real danger,” and that Jones’s loony website Infowars [...]

For years we’ve noted that George Galloway has absolutely no qualms about presenting programs on Press TV while that state-controlled Iranian website simultaneously hosts foul antisemitic garbage.
An article by a regular Press TV contributor named Mike Stathis, headlined “Jewish Mafia tied to death of America,” would hardly be worth noting, then– except that Mr. [...]

“I am not with the Syrian regime. I am against their enemies because their enemies are worse than them. I was not with Saddam Hussein but I was against his enemies because his enemies were worse than him.”
–George Galloway denouncing the Syrian opposition for stubbornly continuing the struggle against their brutal and repressive regime [...]

Note the responses from the formerly funny, now demented Roseanne Barr– the Victoria Jackson of the Left.