{"id":379436,"date":"2018-10-03T00:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-left-and-wiggle-room\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T00:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T23:59:19","slug":"the-left-and-wiggle-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-left-and-wiggle-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left and Wiggle Room"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeux!<\/p>\n

Patrick Cockburn\u2019s recent article<\/a> is one example of why I read CounterPunch<\/em> less often than I used to.\u00a0 Or, at the least, why I have become more critical of their editorial stance.\u00a0 With this article, I have the impression I\u2019m reading a Bernie Sanders speech, of being Judas-goated into the camp of what I consider a kind of useless caviar Left.\u00a0 While maybe not as bad as The Guardian<\/em> (I prefer OffGuardian<\/em><\/a>), there are too many weasel words, phrases, and statements that reek of Establishment consensus.\u00a0 That if you\u2019re going to refer to the head-chopping proxies, armed and funded by the US and its good buddies, Saudi Arabia, the UK, and other assorted vassals, as \u201crebels\u201d rather than the paid lieutenants of the criminal gang in DC, London, Riyadh or Paris, you\u2019re basically saying it\u2019s okay to murder at arm\u2019s length, to somehow plausibly deny any real, true, strong connection to the crime or the perpetrators.\u00a0 Plausible Deniability being spook-speak for basically lying, when timidly asked, about any crime they\u2019ve just committed.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one example:<\/p>\n

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Pundits are predictably sceptical about <\/em>the agreement reached<\/em><\/a> by Russian president Vladimir Putin and Turkish president<\/em> Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/em><\/a> in Sochi on Monday\u00a0to head off an imminent offensive by President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s forces directed against <\/em>rebels in Idlib province<\/em><\/a>.
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See what I mean?\u00a0 No qualifications or explanations of who these \u201crebels\u201d are or why they are there.\u00a0 If…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jeux! Patrick Cockburn\u2019s recent article is one example of why I read CounterPunch less often than I used to.\u00a0 Or, at the least, why I have become more critical of their editorial stance.\u00a0 With this article, I have the impression I\u2019m reading a Bernie Sanders speech, of being Judas-goated into the camp of what I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}