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The reality is that the media’s influence, not the Squad’s, is succeeding in shifting Biden to the right
Media’s Election Lesson: ‘Ambitious’ Dems Must Move to the Right
Monbiot explains
“…We have the technology required to replace fossil fuels. There’s plenty of money, which is currently being squandered on the destruction of life on Earth. The transition could take place in months, if governments willed it. The only thing that stands in the way is the power of legacy industries and the people who profit from them. This is what needs to be overthrown. The handwaving, the complexity, the grandiloquent distraction in Glasgow are designed above all for one purpose: not to accelerate this transition, but to thwart it.”
Biden spins failure into success
Boasting about his $1 trillion infrastructure package, President Joe Biden overstated its reach
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/few-willing-to-change-lifestyle-climate-survey
It seems people recognise the seriousness but prefer to leave change up to others.
Am I surprised? Not really. People have a host of other problems to contend with.
The People’s Summit for Climate Justice has commenced.
I think we have to define for them what “anti-capitalism” means. That is our responsibility as proponents of world socialism and how exactly we do it is our dilemma.
In her speech, Nakate explained, “Individuals are not responsible for the climate crisis, it is the decisions of governments, it is the decisions of businesses, it is the decisions of large corporations that are responsible for the climate crisis.”
She also told the crowd, “People of colour are on the front lines of the climate crisis and it is important for us to tell our own stories and it is important for the world to listen to our stories. The global south is on the front line of the global climate crisis, of the food crisis, but it is not on the front pages of the world’s newspapers.”
I think we should have seen and heard via the media put her own message out in her own words and her own way. As for the repetition of cliches, I think the media is far more guilty of that transgression than Nakate has ever been.
She has already had the media crop her out of promotional photos at the Davos Conference last year, so my suspicions aren’t without some cause, ALB.
I have tried with little success so far to find a decent video of Vanessa Nakate’s speech from yesterday’s march.
Greta Thunberg declined to speak on Saturday so that attention could be upon others like Nakati but to no avail, it seems.
Was it unintended racism that Nakati was ignored by the media? Or merely because she was not the star of the show but an under-study?
The Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate said to the crowds “The climate and ecological crises are already here. But so are citizens from around the globe. Leaders rarely have the courage to lead. It takes citizens, people like you and me, to rise up and demand action. And when we do that in great enough numbers, our leaders will move.”
From $3.5 trillion down to $1.2 trillion
The vote – 228-206 Thirteen Republicans, mostly moderates, supported the legislation while six of Democrats’ including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri — opposed it.
If in the mid-terms the Democratic Party loses control of Congress, all their promises and pledges will mean nothing. None of Biden’s policies regardless of how watered down they have become will ever get passed.
Instead of appealing to wage earners, the Democratic leadership since the 1960s has aimed at getting voters to think of themselves as hyphenated Americans. Half a century ago it was Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Polish-Americans and so forth, with patronage along ethnic lines in the big cities. Today the identity politics has broadened to aim at women, especially white suburban women, whose support they lost in Virgini;, the Hispanic vote, which also faded this week; and support from black voters, whose support has most recently been mobilized by House Majority Whip James Clyburn and what has been called the Black Misleadership Council (though ethnic support for these misleaders finally is weakening as voters learn just who their campaign contributors are). The Democrats’ calculation has been something like, “OK, we’ve written off the working class. But maybe we can get some voters to think of themselves as some other identity.” They’ve pandered to black voters with cultural applause, but not economic benefits. They’ve sought Hispanic support, but that is falling away as the Democrats hesitate to give economic support to low-income workers with families
Now also published on the Dissident Voice website. We don’t possess a megaphone to broadcast our ideas so every website that permits us to widen our audience is useful.
US Military Interests Are Promoting a Culture of Fear With China
ongoing pattern on the part of the U.S. government and corporate media structure that reinforces and instigates dangerous preexisting geopolitical tensions with China, a rhetorical theme unnecessarily produced by a Sinophobic bipartisan U.S. political elite.
"It is no secret that COP26 is a failure."
Climate activist Greta Thunberg describes the climate summit in Glasgow as a "PR event where leaders give beautiful speeches and announce fancy commitments".#COP26: https://t.co/KoFOW3h7l7 pic.twitter.com/nplpkRS3Ed
— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 5, 2021
