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It is perhaps a message even more poignant, MS, as we approach that day the invaders call “Thanksgiving.”
The US has declared as anti-Semitic a prominent international movement which calls for a complete boycott of Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) was “a cancer”, adding the US would stop funding groups linked to it.
No doubt other countries will follow the American lead
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-bds-boycott-movement-us-label-anti-semitic
I guess the boycott against Apartheid South Africa was anti-white racism
megaprojects risk pushing the world’s remaining forests past a “dangerous tipping point” and making climate targets unachievable, a report says…Tens of thousands of miles of roads and railways are planned alongside mines and dams, opening up the forests of South America, south-east Asia and central Africa to destruction, according to the report by a coalition of 25 research and conservation organisations…
An analysis of the media smears against XR for laying a wreath at the Cenotaph.
The Dead and Those about to Die: Climate Protests and the Corporate Media
Elsewhere, it is having a devastating effect on the Navajo people. The Navajo Nation reinstated a stay-at-home lockdown for the entire reservation.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Navajo-Nation-reports-135-new-COVID-19-cases-8-15738172.php
Climate campaigners were outraged that Democratic Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond—who has raked in vast campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry—is joining the incoming administration. Richmond is “also expected to serve as a liaison with the business community and climate change activists.”
Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, declared, “today feels like a betrayal, because one of President-elect Biden’s very first hires for his new administration has taken more donations from the fossil fuel industry during his congressional career than nearly any other Democrat, cozied up to Big Oil and Gas, and stayed silent and ignored meeting with organizations in his own community while they suffered from toxic pollution and sea-level rise.”
160 organizations came together Tuesday to oppose former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She is considered the frontrunner to become Biden’s agriculture secretary.
The groups cite Heitkamp’s history of taking tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry and agribusiness giants including Bayer-Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, Syngenta, and Cargill. They also highlight that she “led legislation that exacerbated concentration in the agriculture sector, eased regulations on factory farms, and thwarted progress on combating climate change.”
“Heitkamp is the wrong choice for the USDA because she has aligned herself with corporate agribusiness at the expense of family farmers, supports fossil fuel interests, and holds views that are out of step with the Democratic Party and the majority of Americans,”
Biden has sent the world a clear signal that his immigration policy will be more of the same. Biden’s DHS transition team selections show his platform will differ (if at all) only in form, not in substance, from that of Trump.
…his appointment of Obama’s former top immigration adviser Cecilia Muñoz to his transition team, who brushed off NPR interviewer Maria Hinojosa’s question about family separation, responding that “Some of these things are going to happen.”
After visiting their website
I found it just another Trotskyist vanguardist group but this essay by them is instructive, nevertheless
https://socialistaction.org/https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/17/u-s-ruling-class-wins-again/
Biden and America’s foreign policy
Most Dem Voters Are to the Left of Biden on Foreign Policy. Can He Be Moved?
Greenpeace USA has released its new “Just Recovery Agenda.”
100 policy recommendations for Biden
It talks the talk
“The economy we have today works for the 1%, not the 99%.”
“the system under which wealthy white elites and massive corporations have controlled and exploited land, communities, and cultures to acquire power—must end.”
“We envision a world where everyone has a good life”
73 million Americans voted for Trump, that is 10 million more than in 2016
They appear immune to rational argument. A marketing guru would relish such a base to work upon.
So who will be the next Trump?
One of his dynasty? Someone new?
Trump may assert Biden is China’s ‘Manchurian Candidate’ but his policies will differ little from Trump’s.
Biden said on Monday the United States needed to negotiate with allies to set global trading rules to counter China’s growing influence
There will be others replying to your query more informed about the specifics of your exchange but, in the meantime, if you haven’t read them, here is the WSM rebuttal of Von Mises which is not the same as Paul Cockshott’s or other market socialists.
https://www.worldsocialism.org/wsm/2020/11/08/the-economic-calculation-controversy/
And also here
“We can engage in many roads of interpretive practice, and what unites it is the articles of understanding, the organising principle.”
LB, On our many varying roads and differing paths to understanding, we acquire much baggage upon our backs and some we are reluctant to shed, even though they are now a cumbersome and unnecessary burden.
The Pope’s message resonates with the “humane” capitalists in Italy.
https://www.dw.com/en/king-of-cashmere-brunello-cucinelli-wants-a-new-social-contract/a-55613628
