Nikolas Kozloff

Nikolas Kozloff "is a New York-based writer specializing in political and environmental topics. A former academic, he received his doctorate in Latin American history from Oxford University in 2002. Prior to writing his first book, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs, where he conducted research papers on Venezuela. He has provided political analysis on Latin America for such media outlets as BBC, PBS World Focus, C-SPAN Washington Journal and Brian Lehrer Live, and even put in a guest appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Though he writes frequently on Latin America for such online publications as the Huffington Post, in more recent years he has focused increasingly on environmental topics."

Finger Wagger

Kozloff wrote an article chastizing Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Mark Weisbrot for supporting Rafael Correa, Hugo Chavez and Julian Assange uncritically. Kozloff suggests that Correa's relation with Belarus should call for finger-wagging against Correa. Similarly, Kozloff suggests that Wikileaks/Assange require some lambasting for, e.g., having a relationship with Israel Shamir -- a purported "anti-semite". In other words, "the left" shouldn't support the likes of Correa/Chavez for the appalling reason that they have relations with Belarus. And Chomsky and Tariq Ali shouldn't support Assange because Israel Shamir has priority access to Wikileaks.

Books

• No Rain in the Amazon: How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010)
• Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008)
• Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the United States (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006)

Contact

website www.nikolaskozloff.com