Heuvel is Editor of The Nation Magazine, the country's leading communist front publication:
The Nation has had writers identified as Soviet spies in the Venona project.
Victor Navasky, editor and publisher of The Nation, has criticised the Venona analysis, claiming the material is being used to "distort our understanding of the cold war". He has also referred to the files as potential "time bombs of misinformation."[1]
The Nation infamously supported Pol Pot, Vladimir Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, and Josef Stalin:
"…The evidence is that in Cambodia the much-heralded blood bath that was supposed to follow the fall of Phnom Penh has not taken place. As for Vietnam, reports from Saigon indicate exemplary behavior, considering the situation. ‘There has been no evidence of a blood bath…as [was] so freely predicted abroad,’ writes George Esper of the A.P." – The Nation, editorial, June 14, 1975[2]
"If, indeed, postwar Cambodia is, as he believes, similar to Nazi Germany, then his comment is perhaps just, though we may add that he has produced no evidence to support this judgement. But if postwar Cambodia is more similar to France after liberation, where many thousands of people were massacred within a few months under far less rigorous conditions than those left by the American war, then perhaps a rather different judgement is in order. That the latter conclusion may be more nearly correct is suggested by the analyses mentioned earlier." - The Nation, "Distortions at Fourth Hand," 1977[3]
"Stalin did not plan or seek to accomplish genocide. Professor Charles Tilly of The New School in New York counts total deaths in the Revolution, including the Teror, famine and war, at no more than 100,000." - The Nation, March 6, 1989[4]
"To me Lenin is the hero of a legend, a man who had torn the burning heart out of his breast in order to light up for mankind the path which shall lead it out of the shameful chaos of the present, out of the rotting bog of stupid current politics....His hero-character has almost no outward adornment. His heroism is of a type not rare in Russia--the modest, ascetic martyrdom of an honorable, intellectual revolutionary who honestly believes in the possibility of justice on earth; the heroism of a man who has renounced all the pleasures of life to do hard work for the happiness of mankind." - The Nation's Obiturary for Lenin[5]
The Nation has also advertised for Holocaust denial,[6] denied that Saddam Hussein killed even 300,000 people,[7] published writings by Fidel Castro[8] and expressed admiration for Hugo Chávez.[9] It has been accused of genocide denial and anti-semitism.[10] It published denial tracts by Noam Chomsky revealing the astonishing fact that one million Cambodians had been predicted to die due to the conditions left by "the US war," hence Pol Pot had not really killed anyone[11] (the prediction actually referred to the likely death toll from the Communist take-over[12]).
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (SISS) wrote in its Report on the Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States,
“ The Nation and the New Republic have long records as liberal publications. They cannot be described as Communist, but they are so infiltrated with the Communist Party policy that they serve the interests of the Communists and confuse liberals on many issues, much more so than some of the Communist publications.[13]
“When Walker’s opponents needed 540,208 signatures to trigger the recall election, Wisconsin’s progressives responded by collecting more than a million.” Yup, pretty easy to do when the signatures includes such “people” as Mickey Mouse, Goofey, Donald Duck, Minnie etc.
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12:51 PM EDT Yes, just as The White Star Line built on their nearly-successful Titanic maiden voyage the left can take their upcoming electoral disaster in Wisconsin and use it to build its losing coalition of parasites and work harder to destroy the US economy. Ms. Vanden Heuvel and her fellow Obamunists are living in a dream world if they think that what is happening in WI is some sort of a victory. It means all their rhetoric, honed to a fine point in nearly a century of flapdoodle, is no longer believed by a majority of the people. The unions as champions of the workers were ready to sacrifice thousands of public employee jobs to protect their crooked monopoly on health insurance. The activists who invaded the state were loud, obnoxious and vandalized the state capital building. The useless recall election, supposedly to stop Walker's 'anti-union agenda' turned into an expensive rerun of the 2010 election, with no mention of union 'rights' because the reforms Walker put in place have obviously worked. It's laughable to read this leftist spin.
Whew!! For a moment, there, I thought that this article was going to be heavily prejudiced, coming from the WaPo and all. But, I can see from the first sentence that they are engaging in objective, unbiased, professional journalism!!
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And how's that working out for all of you Commies, Katrina?
The best way to discredit your "movement" is to expose all of its thuggishness, filth and ugliness to full view.
The real result is a progressive movement that is deeper and broader than before.
And government employee union membership that is in a deeper and broader free-fall than ever before. Keep up the good work, baby...
With what they’ve learned, progressives will be able to start recalls in every state on any Republican governor’s first day in office. Doesn’t matter if they have a chance, they can distract the governor they don’t like even though he was the popular choice.
Just remember, the democratic process is good enough for progressives, as long as they are winning. When they don’t win they try to control through subterfuge.
these people are running your country.
Have a nice day.
No, the real story is how UNION power and money led up to this day.
This piece is laden with hyperpartisan knocks at Scott Walker. Of all of these, the most inane is the charge that Walker "disenfranchised poor and minority voters." Are any poor or minority voters otherwise qualified to vote in Wisconsin being stopped from exercising their right to do so? If so, who or what is standing in their way?
You might say that Ms. vanden Heuvel is a fitting heiress to the leftist legacy of The Nation, but the historical events you describe preceded her time there as editor, which began c. 1995.
I don't like her politics any more than you do, but you can't link her fairly to things that happened before she arrived.
BTW, speaking of hypocrisy, The Nation, like almost all of the lefty media organs, operates on a capitalist, profit motive organizational model while editorially bashing the essence of what they are.
That's the hyperbolic lie underlying the entire public union debate. Illinois is laying people off. Wisconsin is adding people to the work rolls.
The union is stating pay us by law more than the market would so the few can leech off the many. Walker said, "No."