Thomas J. DiLorenzo
- Lew Rockwell Cesspool contributor
Stingy Americans Need to Send More of Their Hard-Earned Money to Ukranian Oligarchs Thomas DiLorenzo donate FacebookTwitterShare Says the pope, who wants us to skimp on Christmas so that we can flush the “excess” down the Ukranian toilet. Much or all of any such donations are likely to be used to support the Ukranian army and help it to kill Russians. Is that the pope’s Christmas message?
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November 26, 2004 Fox War Channel's Potemkin Village Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo at November 26, 2004 01:54 PM During Stalin's regime hundreds of moronic Western journalists were duped into supporting the mass murderer's regime after they were given tours of "Potemkin villiages" -- fake communities set up specifically to fool outsiders about the true nature of life under communist totalitarianism. On this, see Paul Hollander's outstanding book, Political Pilgrims.
The Fox War Channel seems to have learned a thing or two from FDR's close intimate friend, "Uncle Joe" Stalin. This morning there just by chance happened to be a small mob of "protesters" outside the War Channel's studios who were protesting the "stolen election" in the Ukraine and demanding that their (losing) candidate, a neocon/CIA stooge, be put in power. The FWC gave them a good deal of air time. Anything in furtherance of the necons' anti-American agenda of imperialism and world domination, as mentioned below by Lew.
http://tomgpalmer.com/2004/11/26/expert-on-ukrainian-politics-speaks/ Expert on Ukrainian Politics Speaks November 26, 2004
Tom DiLorenzo, a former economist, has issued a fatwa on the Lew Rockwell blog: Viktor Yushchenko is a lying CIA tool, as are millions of other Ukrainians. DiLorenzo has applied to the Ukrainian political crisis the same attention to getting all the facts right that he applied to his book about Abraham Lincoln.
Thanks to DiLorenzo, we can all now refer to Viktor Yushchenko as “their (losing) candidate, a neocon/CIA stooge.” Ever the logician, DiLorenzo assumes that if Yushchenko wants to move out from under Russian domination, accelerate privatization, and get under the NATO umbrella, he must be a “neocon/CIA stooge.” (Of course, there’s that matter of his pledge to withdraw Ukrainian troops from Iraq, but that just shows what a very clever double-secret double agent he really is.)
P.S. For an interesting review of DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, Charles Adams’ When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, and Jeffrey Rogers Hummel’s Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War by a historian, see Daniel Feller, “Libertarians in the Attic, OR a Tale of Two Narratives,” in Reviews in American History, 32 (June 2004), pp. 184-95. (By the time he’s done, little of DiLorenzo’s work is left standing; Hummel, in contrast, gets the appreciation of one serious historian for another, despite the general disagreement that Hummel and Feller would probably have over substantive political goals.) Or see the review by Richard M. Gamble, who is much more sympathetic to DiLorenzo’s professed political philosophy, but who feels forced to conclude that the book is “a travesty of historical method and documentation” (Richard M. Gamble review of The Real Lincoln in The Independent Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, Spring 2003).
