Some "liberals" are really scared and don't want to see a radicalisation of a movement. After decades of silence and complicity, they are changing tack. Understandably, one is not expecting a Foreign Journal's article to include the capitalist and imperialist settings as a wider context of class and race oppression, the economic policies imposed, the international institution involved, debt enslaving, etc. That would question the "liberal democractic way of life,", the American concept of "freedom", the "cold war" and what it was about, "the definition of terrorism" and discovering American imperialist history. The defenders of the system will do whatever it takes, including concessions and what it sounds leftish discourse, to mollify anger, co-opt resistance, mobilise their troops of intellectuals and celebrities in order to establish a new status quo. If a stronger movement that goes beyond race and racism doesn't chall