The World Socialist Web Site is certainly going all out in an effort to defend Roger Waters for his recent outbursts, specifically attacking the State Department for commenting on it as well.
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The crux of their argument goes from pointing out that “In the Flesh” and the Hammers character is a biting satire that is actually anti-fascist (certainly a valid point) to going to an absurd limb, saying that calling Waters an anti-Semite is “part of the Big Lie,” and that “since the U.S. State Department has sanctioned coups of foreign leaders in the 20th century, it has no right to talk about someone’s political beliefs.” And then calls Julian Assange a martyr.
In the effort to destroy Waters, however, no distortion or lie is too base or absurd.
The mud-slinging performs an important political function and needs to be examined and countered.
The US State Department, with all its vast resources and deadly power, has now given its official seal of approval to the claims of antisemitism against Waters. This a most serious warning. The example of Julian Assange should not be lost on anyone.
The hypocrisy stinks to high heaven. It is impossible here to go through the history of this executive agency and its friendly relations with military dictatorships, fascist and semi-fascist regimes, many of them officially associated with antisemitism or racism, including that of Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal, apartheid South Africa, “white terror” governments in Taiwan and South Korea, innumerable homicidal regimes in South and Central America—the list is too extensive.
Given that it then ties all this together with calling Ukraine “fascist and full of Nazis” and whinging against “NATO aggression” and “German rearmament,” and then saying the response to all this is “Workers of the world unite!”, how can anyone take this word salad seriously? They think destroying capitalism and redistributing all corporations’ riches is the answer to every problem, but they never have a solution of HOW TO GET THERE.
It’s literally the South Park Underpants Gnomes all over.