Eric Andre vs. Kodak Black and XXXTentacion

The Remy Ma-Nicki Minaj Feud

Fat Joe speaks.

Proyect vs. Blumenthal

Get your popcorn.

Louis Proyect: "Max Blumenthal Follows Ben Norton Down the Bloody Primrose Path."

We'll see if Blumenthal replies to Proyect. Though he concedes anti-anti-Assadism has been "confined to marginal websites, including some very unsavory ones."

The fear factor is why analysis challenging regime change has been largely confined to marginal websites, including some very unsavory ones

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 3, 2016

Update: He does, sort of.

Cheer on Al-Nusra and bash the left for failing to do the same https://t.co/m6WVl1TvWh #WokeSyriaHandbook

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 3, 2016

Dyson vs. West

Michael Eric Dyson vs. Cornel West, explained by Max Blumenthal.

The Baffler vs. The New York Times

The Baffler vs. The New York Times And this after The Times referred to The Baffler as "A compendium of literary curveballs."

I Wouldn't Talk

The bad language is in this person's tweet. I apologize in advance.

.2 radical leftist assholes go to war against each other: @Eric_Alterman attacks d-bag @MaxBlumenthal http://t.co/KClvOFjk8m #tcot #p2 #fun

— Matthew Vadum (@vadum) October 29, 2013

I wouldn't call either Eric Alterman or Max Blumenthal "radical leftist." Alterman is left-liberal and Blumenthal is left. The terms a**hole and d-bag apply to Alterman and certainly to the tweeter. Just look at his face.

7 November 2013 update: Takes one to know one.

Dear Mondoweiss dipshits. Phil Weiss has repeatedly tried to get me to debate him and I always say "no" because it would be a waste of time

— Eric Alterman (@Eric_Alterman) November 8, 2013

Alterman vs. Blumenthal

In The Nation, Eric Alterman panned Goliath, Max Blumenthal's book on Israel, and Max has been tweeting away.

Alterman's gross and vacuous attack of @MaxBlumenthal's 'Goliath' concludes with his idiotic "Alter-Reviews" of pricey culture. Perfect.

— Andrew Bard Epstein (@andEps) October 18, 2013

Some Nation writers are known for their feuds with their colleagues: Alexander Cockburn vs. Christopher Hitchens, Eric Alterman, and Katha Pollitt; Hitchens vs. Pollitt and Cockburn; Alterman vs. Cockburn, and now Blumenthal. Hitchens even quit the magazine.

Cockburn vs. Proyect

In his column praising the TEA Party, Alexander Cockburn slags Louis Proyect:

"Who says these days that in the last analysis, the only way to change the status quo and challenge the Money Power of Wall St is to overthrow the government by force? That isn’t some old Trotskyist lag like Louis Proyect, dozing on the dungheap of history like Odysseus’ lice-ridden old hound Argos, woofing with alarm as the shadow of a new idea darkens the threshold."

Proyect responds:

"This is the kindest thing I have heard from a Nation Magazine writer ever since Marc Cooper called me a 'prolific buffoon'. ...
I should add that I spotted Alex’s fulmination not 5 minutes after sending in $25 to the Counterpunch fund-drive."
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As for myself, I'm taking CounterPunch's appeal (below) in stride. As of day eleven, 605 donors have given a total of $32,500. At this rate, CP should meet or even surpass its goal in three weeks.

"CounterPunch needs your financial support! Either we meet our fundraising goal of $75,000 over the next three weeks or we'll be forced to drastically curtail the operation of our website.That’s the bottom line reality for us, every year. We’re not sitting on big reserves. We operate on a very thin margin."

Instead, I'm more inclined to feed Swans. As I learned from another Louis Proyect post, Swans is also holding a fundraiser for $2,500 (a mere 3.33% of CounterPunch's goal).

Some background on Swans.