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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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