alanjjohnstone
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Quote:"Jewish groups are boycotting a separate round table organised by Mr Corbyn on Wednesday amid concerns about the inclusion of the pro-Corbyn group Jewish Voice for Labour."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43868922Note that JVL are not seen as a legitimate Jewish group, that it isn't objected to because it is anti-zionist but pro-Corbyn.
The Finnish government has decided not to expand a limited trial in paying people a basic income, which has drawn much interest. It will not be extended after this year, as the government is now examining other schemes for reforming the Finnish social security system.Kela researcher, Miska Simanainen, said "reforming the social security system is on the political agenda, but the politicians are also discussing many other models of social security, rather than just basic income".http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43866700
http://www.france24.com/en/20180422-france-politicians-celebrities-condemn-new-anti-semitism"French Jews are 25 times more at risk of being attacked than their fellow Muslim citizens," according to the manifesto. It added that some 50,000 Jews had been "forced to move because they were no longer in safety in certain cities and because their children could no longer go to school".
Quote:Jews make allegations about antisemitism for their political or personal benefit is, in fact, one of the oldest antisemitic tropes there is.I was struck by this statement because i have countless times heard it said that blacks and Asians play the anti-racism card at work and elsewhere…https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/apr/21/people-dont-know-about-the-holocaust-they-dont-care
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/new-centrist-party-politically-homeless-brexit-labour-conservative-poll-a8312991.html Millions of voters feel politically homeless and would consider backing a new centre-ground party, a poll has revealed.Almost half of those questioned in an exclusive survey for The Independent said both that they did not feel represented by any established party and that a new organisation would have a chance of winning their vote. “If a new political party which pitched itself as sitting in the ‘centre’ or ‘centre ground’ of British politics formed and ran in the next UK general election, how likely would you be to consider voting for it?”Overall, 43 per cent said they would “definitely” or “potentially” consider backing the new party, while 35 per cent said they would not or would be “unlikely” to, with 22 per cent saying they did not know. With the electorate at the last election at just less than 47 million people, it suggests almost 20 million voters may be amenable to a new group to some extent, more than voted for either of the two big parties in British politics.
Nothing like doing it the old fashioned way to do away with your enemies but you won't find the Super-powers protesting, will we?http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43851065
Never really read up on the topic of Bundism until now.Nationhood without statehood, neither Zionism or Assimilation https://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/scherer-bund.pdf
Remember Scott Ritter, the ex-UN arms inspector during the Iraq WMD treasure-hunt. He may now be out of the loop but his experience i believe still counts for somethinghttps://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-shocking-lack-of-intelligence-in-our-missile-strike-on-syria/
Quote:One of the major problems confronting those who contend that both sarin and chlorine were used in the alleged Douma incident is the absolute incompatibility of the two substances. A U.S. Army study from the 1950s found that chlorine serves as a catalyst that promotes the decomposition of sarin nerve agent, meaning that if both substances were either combined or released together, the sarin would rapidly decompose. This reality seemed to escape American officials evaluating the Douma incident, who postulated to The Guardian that chlorine and sarin were stored separately in the same cylinder, ignoring how this would be achieved in a gas cylinder of the type alleged to have been used in Douma…. Azizah’s narrative of smoke inhalation is consistent with the finding of the French intelligence report on the Douma chemical attack, which noted that, based upon an examination of the images of the alleged victims, one of the possible explanations behind the symptoms produced was “hydrocyanic acid” (the solution of hydrogen cyanide in water). Hydrogen cyanide is something not found in either chlorine or sarin exposure, but prevalent in the smoke produced by structure fires. The presence of hydrogen cyanide would be explained by a structure fire, and as such, Azizah’s testimony provides a viable alternative explanation for the victims being treated by the Douma hospital, as well as those filmed dead at the scene of the alleged chemical attack.Perhaps our resident chemist can comment.However as ALB pointed out previously Ritter observes
Quote:the French case for war—and by extension, that of its allies, the United States and the United Kingdom—rested solely on “open source” information provided by opponents of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, for whom military intervention by the West was a long-standing objective.The United States, France and the United Kingdom violated international law by launching airstrikes against Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, an independent German parliamentary report has found."Military force used against a state to punish it for infringing an international convention violates the prohibition of force under international law," said the report by the German parliament's non-partisan research service (the "Unterabteilung Wissenschaftliche Dienste"). The report was commissioned by Germany's Left party, which asked the civil servants to ascertain if the strikes conformed with international law. The findings cited the UN Charter, which calls on members to "refrain … from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state." This ban on using military force, the report added, still applies when a country breaches an international treaty such as the CWC. Moreover, the report disagreed with an argument voiced by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who had cited the UN Security Council's inability to react to the suspected chemical attack as part of his support for the airstrikes. The Council's indecisiveness, based on Russia's opposition to US-backed proposals to investigate the suspected attack, was irrelevant from a legal perspective, it said.http://www.dw.com/en/syria-airstrikes-violated-international-law-german-parliamentary-report/a-43476594
A Patrick Cockburn article that is recommended.https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-assad-uk-government-christian-persecution-isis-foreign-office-a8314616.html
Guardian commentator comes out in defence of the White Helmetshttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/20/trump-us-syria-truth-tribal-robert-mueller-white-helmets-factseHe cites the Guardian investigation to clear them of any complicity with Jihadism.
Not sure if it has been sourced but here is an article offering details supporting Ken Livingston's position. He is an ex-GDR pro-Palestinian journalist, not quite the trained historian.https://mounadil.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/thesecretcontacts-zionismandnazigermany1933-1941-journal-of-palestine-studies-polkehn-klaus-vol-5-no-3-4-1976-pp-54-82_text-1.pdfI also came across this article mentioning the pro-Nazi 'Union of National-German Jews' which was for assimilation and anti-Zionism but which was outlawedhttps://www.marxists.org/subject/jewish/nm-anti-semitism.pdf
Quote:Neither Washington nor Moscow has a way out for the working class. Only a militant socialist programme and policy can provide an answer to both. Not by rejecting Marxism but by basing itself on its fundamental tenets can the labour movement in Britain solve the problems of our timeIf we wish to attract visitors to our HO which is on a busy thoroughfare with a heavy foot-fall, there are better ways. A cafe/bookshop/reading room/internet/photocopying resource centre.We could rent space out for meetings which would require some sort of pre-vetting so i'm not so sure about that suggestion, myself.But as Gnome will rightly point out – we need the volunteers (or as some seek, paid party workers)…reliable times of opening…and perhaps added security to restrict access to non-public areas.Anyway, as i often say…if wishes were horses, every tramp would ride.
