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Internationalist House of Pancakes: I.F. Stone and the KGB
Since historians John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev revealed that their forthcoming volume Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press) would contain archival documentation linking journalist I.F. Stone to the Soviet intelligence apparatus (cover ...
The GOP's New "Evil Empire"
thedemocraticstrategist.org — Like a lot of non-Rush-Limbaugh listeners, when I first heard that a large faction of Republican National... Committee members was pushing for a formal resolution calling on GOPers to start referring to the Democratic Party as the "Democrat Socialist ... (more) The GOP's New "Evil Empire"
Mr. Greenwald Gets a Letter… and Writes One
Mr. Greenwald Gets a Letter… and Writes One
firedoglake.com — photo by Kzitelman Glenn Greenwald got an email this morning: Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 9:10:55 AM... GMT -02:00 Mid-Atlantic Subject: Your "Izzy" Award Mr. Greenwald: It has come to our attention that on March 31 you accepted ... (more) Mr. Greenwald Gets a Letter… and Writes One
Reason Needs to Take Out the Garbage...
delong.typepad.com — Michael C. Moynihan: Hit & Run: Reason Magazine : Since historians John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and... Alexander Vassiliev revealed that their forthcoming volume Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press) would ... (more) Reason Needs to Take Out the Garbage...
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RE: More on the Left's Cultural Amnesia
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Earlier today, I noted in passing Brad DeLong's incredibly weak defense of I.F. Stone against well-documented assertions that he was a Soviet spy. I didn't have the time or energy to unpack DeLong's argument and deal with how spectacularly wrong it was, but fortunately Michael Moynihan has taken the ball from me, run with it and is now in the end zone doing the anti-communist equivalent of the Ickey Shuffle. ...

Reason Needs to Take Out the Garbage...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Hit & Run: Reason Magazine: Since historians John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev revealed that their forthcoming volume Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press) would contain archival documentation linking journalist I.F. Stone to the Soviet intelligence apparatus (cover name: "Pancake"), many of Izzy's acolytes have intervened on behalf of their hero.... Now along comes UC Berkeley economist Brad DeLong to claim that, while he might have worked with the Soviets, Stone should be considered a "premature anti-fascist," and that ...

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: I.F. Stone and the KGB.
Instapundit — MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: I.F. Stone and the KGB.

I. F. Stone's Apologists:
The Volokh Conspiracy — Michale Moynihan has got their number . (H/T Instapundit ) How ridiculous are some of the attempts to whitewash Stone's relationship with Soviet intelligence? This ridiculous: Eric Alterman, whose tag line proudly proclaims that he is a "is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism," proclaims that Stone was not a spy because his activities do not match Dictionary.com's first definition of the word "spy." I hope Alterman's English and journalism students start citing Dictionary.com's first definition of a word as its definitive ...

Giving Reality the Finger
The Corner on National Review Online — Friday, May 08, 2009 [image] Giving Reality the Finger [ Mark Hemingway ] Apparently, Michael Moynihan and I beat up on Brad DeLong so badly for his lame attempt to defend I.F. Stone's soviet espionage, he's issued this snipe that ignores our arguments and completely moves the goal posts. Instead of addressing whether or not it was OK for Stone to be on the Soviet payroll, he bizarrely asserts that we "wish that the Nazis had conquered Moscow in 1941," under the rather naive premise that Stone only spied as an anti-Nazi agent for the Reds. Moynihan has ...

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