It was refreshing for me to have been attacked in print. The "heat of the moment" thing I would buy if I hadn't heard it so many times second hand. Don't feel bad for making an accusation public, this allows us to defend ourselves. The deeper story is how anti-globalization in the 2000s starts to look a lot like anti-communism in the 1950s. By covering it the way you did you opened a broader discussion than the he-said, she-said about the initial defamation lawsuit.