{"id":9927,"date":"2009-04-21T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2009-04-21T06:47:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:47:17","slug":"more-good-bad-news-for-ivaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9927","title":{"rendered":"More (good) bad news for IVAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Glantz is a Berkely grad who claims to be a journalist. He co-founded Pacifica Radio and he has written two books. <\/p>\n<p>When the war against terror began, he decided he&#8217;d become a propagandist focused on returning veterans. One book was entitled &#8220;How America Lost Iraq&#8221;. It was wildly popular for about a minute. The last time I looked for the book, it was selling for a penney on Amazon;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/glantz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/glantz.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"glantz\" width=\"177\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8374\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWell, he went on to write &#8220;Winter Soldier; Iraq and Afghanistan&#8221; about IVAW members and their stories of the war. TSO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6781\">reviewed some the book<\/a> back in January. It&#8217;s not in Amazon&#8217;s bargain bin yet, but it&#8217;s headed there.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons it&#8217;s such a poor seller, aside from the ridiculous stories in it, is because Glantz excluded many of the stories that were half-way true. The reason he did that was for strictly political reasons. Some of the IVAW members actually think they&#8217;re doing the whole IVAW thing for their country &#8211; those aren&#8217;t the people Glantz included in the book.  <\/p>\n<p>I get to talk to a few IVAW members in the course of my business and they tell me stuff &#8211; one told me that he was upset that Glantz left him right of the book after all this particular member had done for IVAW. In fact, he wasn&#8217;t allowed to partake in the bounty of speaking tours and book royalties and he was bitter about it. He was also really pissed off that moocher Matthis Chiroux, who isn&#8217;t an Iraq or Afghanistan veteran, was draining the coffers of IVAW while people who needed the money and were real Iraq or Afghanistan veterans were hung out to dry &#8211; in some cases they were denied help in securing their earned benefits from the VA by their IVAW\/VFP\/VVAW mentors.<\/p>\n<p>Glantz had a litmus test for including stories in his book &#8211; a political litmus test. He included only IVAW members who were pledged to the International Socialist Organization &#8211; like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9865\">in the email that TSO published yesterday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s look at how that&#8217;s paying off for Glantz;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/glantz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/glantz.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"glantz\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/glantz.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/glantz-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWell, no one ever accused socialists and communists of have much business sense, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Glantz is a Berkely grad who claims to be a journalist. He co-founded Pacifica Radio &hellip; <a title=\"More (good) bad news for IVAW\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9927\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More (good) bad news for IVAW<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,30,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}