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Pleasing the audience
Speaking at this year’s Limmud festival, a Jewish event, the shadow foreign secretary said he “never believed” Corbyn would become leader and that his nomination was “a mistake”.
“I regret nominating Jeremy Corbyn and if I knew what I do now, I never would have nominated him,” Lammy told an online audience of about 300, in comments first reported in Jewish News. “I never believed he would become leader. That was a mistake and I am sorry for that.”
He said he was proud of the Jewish community for standing “shoulder to shoulder” with leaders including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu in their fight against apartheid.
Lammy appears to be re-writing history for Tutu was noted also for his criticism of Israel’s maltreatment of the Palestinians.
Tutu declared his support for boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) as a peaceful means of opposing Israeli occupation.Also Mandela declared that “we consider ourselves to be comrades in arms to the Palestinian Arabs in their struggle for the liberation of Palestine. There is not a single citizen in South Africa who is not ready to stand by his Palestinian brothers in their legitimate fight against the Zionist racists”.
Greta Thunberg says that it’s “strange” to consider Biden a leader in the arena “when you see what his administration is doing.”
“The U.S. is actually expanding fossil fuel infrastructure,” Thunberg said. “Why is the U.S. doing that?”
https://www.alternet.org/2021/12/greta-thunberg-biden/
We can answer her. A president is the voice of capitalists and he cannot jeopardise their ability to make profit and accumulate capital.
China counters the US blame game
Biden’s failed refugee promises
A Year in, Biden Hasn’t Fulfilled Promise to Repair Refugee Resettlement Program
A typical leftwing interpretation of the Chile election result.
No easy predictions can be made since Chile has entered a radically different era, one in which major decisions will be made not by a politically unhindered ruling elite presiding over a passive population but by multiple social forces who have just regained their agency. Thus, in the current conjuncture, we need to show solidarity with the Chilean project so that it can find its way through the open-ended dynamics of history.
For ourselves, the prediction is a rather easy one, regardless of ideological slant, capitalism cannot be permanently reformed for the benefit and interests of the working class.
The IWW was once a significant force in Chile.
From its Preamble
“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organise as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.”For what it is worth, Chomsky’s take on the Ukrainian situation
Chomsky: Outdated US Cold War Policy Worsens Ongoing Russia-Ukraine Conflict
2024 – the Second American Civil War?
A new MMT text-book?
A review
For those with an eye on economic theory
private credit and debt are inconsequential. A money loan of one person is a money debt of another. They cancel out. And since banks simply translate the saving deposits of some into loans made to others, they too are inconsequential.Of course, banks are not useless. They help eliminate the friction of barter and facilitate the creation of deposits-read-money through the money-multiplying cycle.
(never sure whether this should be in the 100% banking thread)
Belgium will shut down all seven of its nuclear reactors by 2025 but will not close the door on new-generation nuclear technology
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211223-belgium-to-close-all-current-nuclear-reactors-by-2025
Eric Zemmour, the French far-right presidential candidate, is Jewish.
The Great Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, said in October that Zemmour is “certainly” anti-Semitic and “obviously” racist.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/22/french-jews-denounce-far-right-candidate-zemmour
Not to forget the Kelloggs workers strike victory
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/kelloggs_workers_strike_victory_union#
Japanese and US armed forces have drawn up a draft plan for a joint operation for a possible Taiwan emergency.
After German authorities complained that RT launched live broadcasts in Germany without a license, Paris-based Eutelsat to removed it from its satellite.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-takes-russias-german-language-rt-channel-off-air/a-60228694
“No country can boost its way out of the pandemic,” he told reporters.
The UN health agency has long decried the glaring inequity in access to COVID-19 vaccines.
Allowing COVID-19 to spread unabated in some places dramatically increases the chance of new, more dangerous variants emerging, it argues.
“Blanket booster programmes are likely to prolong the pandemic, rather than ending it, by diverting supply to countries that already have high levels of vaccination coverage, giving the virus more opportunity to spread and mutate,” Tedros told reporters.
Cde.RobertS with his regualr thrice-weekly summary of the media has linked to this article on CRT and why it isn’t a Marxist analysis.
https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/why-critical-race-theory-is-not-marxism-by-paul-so
