While reposting this important reply by Caitlin to the Counterpunch attacks, we included the following note of support:
Editor’s Note: For the record, we found Joshua Frank’s and Litvin’s attacks on Johnstone and Cobb tendentious, arrogant and completely groundless. It surely does not escape such sharp minds that their actions do not benefit the forces fighting to break the repugnantly criminal global neoliberal stranglehold but precisely the opposite. Frank’s participation in these petty and malicious polemics is especially distasteful and damaging to the unity of the anti-imperialist front at a time when the US ruling cliques, long dominated by the Neocon infestation, and forever in pursuit of global supremacy, seem determined to push the world to the brink of nuclear extinction to achieve that dubious and morally repugnant goal. In this context, Johnstone and Cobb are brave and cogent truth-tellers at a moment when we need truth more than anything else in mass communications. And we also need a flexible attitude toward our tactics, first of all recognizing who and what is the current main enemy of humankind and life itself on this tormented planet. Their work should be supported and not invidiously attacked. — P Greanville
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/07/22/caitlin-johnstone-and-david-cobb-respond-to-counterpunch/
