The Atlantic monthky, mouthpiece of the globalist warmongers who seek Russia’s total destruction, opened its pages to one James Kirchick, whose Sept. 29 article “How the Anti-war Camp Went Intellectually Bankrupt” is an unhinged attack on what he describes as an unholy alliance between right-wing “realists"—naming John Mearsheimer and Chas Freeman as examples—and the anti-imperialist left, which justifies Russia’s special military operation against Ukraine. Today, he asserts, the anti-war caucus which urges the West to cut off supplies of defensive weapons to “peaceful, democratic” Ukraine, and find a solution that will satisfy Russia’s “legitimate security interests,” is “objectively pro-fascist.” He agrees that Zelenskyy should be considered a modern-day Winston Churchill, for his “charismatic resistance” to foreign invaders. (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/anti-war-camp-intellectually-bankrupt/671576/ )
So, who is Kirchick? Back in 2007, then a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, he authored two nasty articles published in Commentary magazine, founded by neocon and LaRouche-hater John Podhoretz. One of Kirchick’s articles, dated Oct. 30, 2007 “The Closest of Strangers,” and one dated Nov. 3, 2007 “The Friends of Lyndon LaRouche,” were both ostensibly dedicated to exposing Bob Dreyfuss, then a writer for the American Spectator, for his past association with Lyndon LaRouche. Aside from trying to get Dreyfuss fired, the articles retailed the slanders of LaRouche as a fascist anti-Semite, “demagogue cult leader,” sourced from Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates in Cambridge, Mass. Recall, too, that Podhoretz’s Commentary published a review of paid Anti-Defamation League information Dennis King’s slanderous Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism. (https://www.commentary.org/articles/harvey-klehr/lyndon-larouche-and-the-new-american-fascism-by-dennis-king/ )
In the current Atlantic article, Kirchick takes umbrage at anyone, left or right, who suggests that the U.S. is at fault in the Ukraine conflict, or who questions the assertion that Russia is guilty of hideous war crimes. He is apoplectic at those who use the phrase “we will fight to the last Ukrainian” to refer to Anglo-American/NATO policy. Ron Paul, Noam Chomsky, Freeman, Mearsheimer, The Grayzone, the CATO Institute’s Doug Bandow, and a new online magazine Compact, whose columnists include Marxists and Catholics, all come under attack.
The attacks on Chas Freeman and John Mearsheimer are notable. He excoriates Chas Freeman for saying that Russia’s special military operation (SMO) was an understandable reaction to the West’s years of NATO expansion and is incensed that he made these statements to the leftist, anti-imperialist Grayzone platform, where “no anti-Western tyrant is too brutal for fawning adulation.”
