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WEINBERG


                                                           July 18, 2007


Ah, Bill Weinberg...
                                    Bill Weinberg's midnight
Puts the tank in                    radio show on WBAI was      WBAI
cantankerous.                       a favorite of the
                                    Toadkeeper's...

 That heavy jewish-New York                        TOADKEEPER
 accent, "*whine*-ing" away (as
 he himself often puts it) about
 the state of the world...
                                           The show is called
  His complete inability to                "The Moorish Orthodox
  master the cart machine (he              Radio Crusade".  He
  fumbles it at the start of               inherited it from
  just about every show)...                Peter Lambourne
                                           Wilson, aka Hakim Bey.
    Repeatedly griping about the
    quality of the phone callers, and            Weinberg's interests
    yet returning to the phones every            have always run more
    time, like Charlie Brown charging            toward Latin America,
    the football.                                but as the Bush regime's
                                                 own "crusade" began
                                                 heating up, he's felt
                                                 more sympathy for the
                                                 Moorish.



There are many and various things I
appreciate about Bill Weinberg, including:

o He's very cyclically correct: he loves to
  talk-up his bike riding habit, and he covers
  the New York critical mass scene very well.



o He's long since gotten
  tired of ranting about      He has what strikes me as
  the 9/11 truthies...        a valid gripe-- many a
                              show at WBAI uses DVDs of
  His write-up on the         the idiotic "Loose Change"
  subject may not be          documentary as a
  the definitive debunk       fundraising premium.
  but it's good enough.
                                        With the help of Max Schmid
     FALLEN_TOWERS                      he started using an excellent
                                        smart-ass give-away "premium" for
  And I see that he's been              fund raising purposes: a data disk
  arguing with the "peak-oil"           full of sound recordings of
  guys as well...                       conspiratoria throughout the
                                        decades including paul-is-dead-ism.
    http://ww4report.com/node/7566


o He's very strong on obscure-- to me-- ethnic
  minorities.  When Weinberg does a good show, I
  end up reaching for the atlas, and searching the
  web.


o He often has excellent guests on the
  show, e.g. a member of JATO just back           September 26, 2006: "Aaron
  from Israel, or activists from Oxaca            Levitt of Jews Against the
  reporting on current events.                    Occupation (JATO) and the
                                                  Tel Rumeida Project"

                                                  October 3, 2006: "Efrain
                                                  Galicia of New York's Consejo
                                                  de Derechos Humanos Para
                                                  Todos, just back from Mexico,
                                                  speaks on the struggle in
                                                  Oaxaca"


There are some oddities about Weinberg I still
haven't sorted out in my mind.  For example, he        There are many things
and his anarcho-syndicalist friends periodically       to dislike about life
use capitalism as a sneer word, but I'm not even       under the old Bush Jr.
sure what they mean by it.                             regime -- excuse me,
                                                       "the last eight years" --
    Comes the revolution, will Finland be put to       but I have my doubts
    the wall for being Capitalist?  Will Sweden?       it's strictly accurate
                                                       to call the trouble
                                                       "capitalism".

                                                       A better description
                                                       would be "fascism".
                                                       Except we're not
                                                       allowed to use the
                                                       "F" word.


I fear he has a tendency to see
"left-wing anti-semitism" under                 I think the way it works
the bed.                                        is that if Weinberg
                                                attacks Zionism, he's
There was a really odd occasion                 displaying an enlightened
where he decided he had something               understanding, but if
against Norman Finklestein.                     someone else does,
Weirdly enough Weinberg had                     they're under scrutiny.
swallowed a smear from Dershowitz
(of all people)... and Weinberg
apparently thought he deserved
credit for being open-minded
because he was listening to one
of the bad-guys.

    In general he seems
    to pick some strange
    fights with his
    fellow leftists,         CONTRARIAN_WARS
    even his fellow
    marxist-anarchists...                              (But Bill Weinberg
                                                       deserves no comparison
                                                       with the likes of
           But then, it also means                     Bob Black.)
           he's willing to take on
           things like the truthies
           and the peakies.             (And I have a feeling his
                                        beef with Chomsky has
                                        more beef to it than his
                                        complaints about
                                        Finklestein.)
                                                            http://ww4report.com/node/1557

                              Contrarians may go off the
                              rails on occasion, but at
                              least they're relatively
                              immune to the "politically
                              correct" problem-- many
                              people substitute tribal
                              identity for judgement,
                              and if you're not afraid
                              to pick fights with your
                              own tribe you've got some
                              defense against that impulse.








         "I'm not doing the hard work of organizing
          I'm just throwing tomatoes on the radio."

                   WBAI, Jan  7 2009



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