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Been more or less 10years now of the war in Syria,
Our SOYMB blog summarises its analyses over that period
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2021/03/10-years-of-bloody-carnage-in-syria.html
I keep saying, ALB, we need to have a detailed and dedicated response to this illusion that the UBI is a panacea for all our woes and social ills.
Swiss Muslims and Jews join together to oppose the new Burka law
The Swiss “have a long history of trying to curb migrations through banning religious practice,” Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis. In 1892, the Swiss ban on kosher slaughter, which remains in place today, was “designed to stop the Jewish migration from Russia” from pogroms, he added.
Only a particular type of Jew is acceptable to Israeli Zionists.
A recent Supreme Court decision requiring the government to recognise Reform and Conservative conversions performed in Israel would lead to the country being “overrun” with “fake” Jewish converts from Africa, according to Netanyahu.
The Supreme Court ruling is narrow in scope and applies only to Jews who have converted under non-Orthodox auspices within Israel’s borders with one orthodox party implying in a campaign ad that the Reform movement would convert dogs to Judaism.
Yet even Israeli liberals are discriminatory with one posting on Facebook “The Conservative and Reform movements in Israel convert only those who have residency status. Not labor migrants. Not asylum seekers…”
Another UBI-friendly article based on the Stockton project
The Stockton Experiment: How a Guaranteed Income Can Actually Solve Inequality
Spain could become one of the first countries in the world to trial the four-day working week after the government agreed to launch a modest pilot project for companies interested in the idea.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/15/spain-to-launch-trial-of-four-day-working-week
Worse than Trump’s.
The American Rescue Plan does not include protections barring debt collectors from claiming the checks and using to pay off people’s debts.
It makes the American Rescue Plan “also a cash cow for debt collectors.”
The latest development has been the excuse of the pandemic to disperse Reclaim the Night protest at Clapham Common rather than exercise discretion as they had with last years BLM?
Could it be because the focus was upon them, the police?
“One Tory MP said colleagues had concerns about parts of the bill but it was drawn up in the wake of demonstrations by Extinction Rebellion. It was necessary to tackle the group’s “dreadfully disruptive” tactics of non-violent protest, the MP claimed.”
A look at our Extinction Rebellion thread will confirm some members warnings that it would lead to a backlash
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56395085
More signs that the military are prepared to escalate their draconian repression.
But if true and not just propaganda there are stories of protesters now engaging in attempts of counter-violence rather than persisting with peaceful demonstrations. This is an ominous development because it shifts the situation where the State is more suited.
Given the attention to the Labour Party’s and Corbyn’s supposed “anti-semitism” where is the media attention to the right-ward drift in Israel’s politics.
Netanyahu has made a electoral pact with the many Israeli religious political parties to hopefully ensure his re-election. It will facilitate the entry of Zionist extremists such as Jewish Power into the parliament.
workers in Myanmar who produce clothing for Primark were locked inside their factory by supervisors who tried to prevent them from joining anti-coup protests…20 were subsequently fired for missing shifts to participate in the civil disobedience movement
B’nai B’rith Smear Doesn’t Change Facts about University Funding
Financing of influence in universities in Canada by pro-Israel zionists
Climate change and farming by GRAIN
“…A valid questions may be whether agroecology and food sovereignty-based agricultural models are capable of producing enough to feed the growing population?… Not only do these offer credible solutions to climate change, but these alternatives are also quite impressive in offering the right solutions to assure our food security…”
I found this article informative
https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/india-famine/
The British caused the famines by commodifying food from pre-Raj traditions that averted famine and post-independence, the Indian governments introduced interventions that mitigated the markets’ influence but didn’t fix the problem. And the new laws won’t fix either but exacerbate the situation once again for the benefit of the new Indian Raj elite
the first-ever meeting of leaders of the so-called “Indo-Pacific Quad” grouping – which includes the US, India, Japan and Australia.
