Re: Common Dreams xenophobia

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> 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


Is it a new -- or newish -- book?  If any PEN-pal could review it for
MRZine, it would be great!  (If it's a new book, I can arrange for a
review copy to be sent to an interested PEN-pal -- write me offlist
at yoshie at monthlyreview.org.)

Yoshie Furuhashi
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