In a series of brief interviews with vlogger and activist songster Geof Bard [10], CounterVortex [11] producer Bill Weinberg [12] dissects the sinister "tankie" phenomenon [13] on the contemporary Western "left," which paradoxically supports Russian imperialism in the name of a misguided "anti-imperialism." This absurd double standard [14] is enabled by the so-called "Chomsky Rule [15]," which holds that we are only permitted to protest the crimes of US imperialism—and thereby renders the crimes of rival imperialisms invisible to the activist-left milieu. The pseudo-left betrayal of Ukraine [16] to imperialist aggression actually undermines our moral authority [17] to oppose the crimes of the US and its client states in places like Gaza and Yemen.
See our last rants against Chomskyism [19] and Red-Brown Politics [20] (left-fascist convergence)
