Re: Common Dreams xenophobia

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> On today's Common Dreams website (a pro-Democratic Party outlet
> founded by nonprofit foundation entrepreneur Don Hazen), there's a
> completely rancid article on immigration written by Thom Hartmann,
> an Air America radio host and author of such groundbreaking books as
> "Focus Your Energy", which is described on his website
> (http://www.thomhartmann.com/focus.shtml) as a way to succeed in
> business even if you suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. Just
> what suffering humanity has been waiting for. Although I lack the
> patience to do a thorough study of Hartmann-thought, he strikes me
> as a combination of New Age hustler and woozy-headed liberal.

Hartmann's also big on how the furriners are buying up 'murica.

I'm just reading Peter Kwong & Dusanka Miscevic's Chinese America, a
history of the Chinese in the US. It's distressing to be reminded
once again how anti-Chinese agitation was practically the founding
act of the US labor movement. This toxic stuff has a long history.

Doug