Miriam,
When one thinks that they are God's Gift to the World, and they look
into a mirror, they see God's Gift to the World, radiantly reflected
before them. And so it is with a nation such as the USA, peering into
the looking glass and seeing the reflection of little Israel. Israel,
our clone. How can mighty America be critical of Israel, when that
reflection is exactly our own. By our, I mean the United States
ofAmerica as it has evolved as an Empire of Terrorists.
The American Empire sees the butchering in Palestine in the light of
America's own brutal conquests. A part of me feels that we will never
turn the corner because we do not think there is anything wrong with
our ruthless tactics, or those of our little brothers.
But if we do not wake up and realize that continuing our current
actions around the world will prevent us from any hope of reforming
America. What fools we are if we believe we can stand for violence
and destruction in the World, while building a People's government at
home.
Carl Jarvis
On 9/14/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bernie's critics, and I've posted some of their articles, have said some of
this, only, of course, not as well as Hedges has. What most Americans don't
realize is how important a position on Israel is in relation to the rest of
US foreign policy because it is the pro Israel Neo Cons who have been
pushing this country to so many disastrous actions in the Mid East and
throughout the world. Additionally, if people were actually following, on a
day to day basis, what Jewish Israelis do to Palestinians in the West Bank
and in Gaza, they would have found Hillary's stated support of Israel with
all of her promised military support, abhorrent. The fact that Israel and
Ssaudi Arabia are supporting Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria with American
support, might give people pause. But interviews with Ssanders, invariably
omit foreign policy, as did the Democracy Now interview with O'Malley the
other night. This appears to be an across the board blindness, excuse the
expression, of the Left, of Progressives in general. All these modern
young
people keep using the word, intersection. Well, I think that's another word
for relationship. Why can't they see the relationship between military
spending and the diminishment of domestic programs?
On a related note, after discovering all of the writing by, and about,
Palestinians, almost all of which I've found because of Deborah Murray's
contributions to Bookshare, I realized how biased in favor of Israel, the
NLS collection is. I've found only one novel from an Israeli Palestinian's
point of view, The Attack, and 4 books by Edward Said, of which 2 relate to
Palestine. There is Sandy Tolan's first book, The Lemon Tree. However, it
bends over backward to provide what the author considers to be a balanced
view of theIsrael/Palestine question. To me, it is not balanced. Neither of
Max Blumenthal's books which are critical of Israel, are on BARD, although
his first book, about the Evangelical Right, is. So I asked one of the
people who is on the NLS committee who is supposed to represent consumers,
to pass along my observation to the powers that be. She unenthusiastically,
said that she would. I tell this story to point out that it is no accident
that Americans know virtually nothing about the kind of country that Israel
truly is, its real history, or why Palestinians have chosen so many
different ways to protest their treatment. The NYT is as biased in the
books
it mentions in its Book Review section as is BARD in the books that it
makes
available to blind people to read. By the way, because of Deborah,
Shell-Shocked and Gaza Speaks are now on Bookshare, and she is working on a
novel by a Palestinian American author, Mornings in Jenin.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2015 10:14 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Matthew
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?
If the United States had an official National Prophet position, I would
promote Chris Hedges as our first National Prophet.
I posted a note announcing Corbin's election, before I read Hedges article.
His following article makes mine appear to have been written by some
weak-kneed old fuddy duddy.
Go get 'em, Chris!
Carl Jarvis ****
On 9/14/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
calls “social cleansing”
Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/where_is_our_jeremy_corbyn_2015091
3/
Posted on Sep 13, 2015
By Chris Hedges
Jeremy Corbyn waves in London after he was elected the leader of the
Labour Party on Saturday. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP) The politics of
Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s
Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the
global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career
as a pariah within his country’s political establishment. But because
he held fast to the socialist ideals that defined the old Labour
Party, he has risen untarnished out of the ash heap of neoliberalism.
His integrity, as well as his fearlessness, offers a lesson to
America’s self-identified left, which is long on rhetoric, preoccupied
with accommodating the power elites—especially those in the Democratic
Party—and very short on courage.
I will not support a politician who sells out the Palestinians and
panders to the Israel lobby any more than I will support a politician
who refuses to confront the bloated military and arms industry or
white supremacy and racial injustice. The Palestinian issue is not a
tangential issue. It is an integral part of Americans’ efforts to
dismantle our war machine, the neoliberal policies that see austerity
and violence as the primary language for speaking to the rest of the
world, and the corroding influence of money in the U.S. political
system. Stand up to the masters of war and the Israel lobby and you
will probably stand up to every other corporate and neoliberal force
that is cannibalizing the United States. This is what leadership is
about. It is about having a vision. And it is about fighting for that
vision.
Corbyn, who supports negotiations with Hamas and Hezbollah and once
invited members from those organizations to visit Parliament, has
called for Israel’s leaders to be put on trial for war crimes against
the Palestinians.
He has expressed support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions
movement
(BDS) against Israel and the call for an arms embargo against that
nation.
He would scrap Britain’s Prevention of Terrorism Act, which, like the
Patriot Act in the United States, has been used to target and harass
Muslims. He wants the United Kingdom to withdraw from NATO. He cannot
conceive of any situation, he has said, that would necessitate sending
British troops abroad. He was a vocal opponent of the invasion and
occupation of Iraq and a founder of the Stop the War Coalition. He
denounced the United States for what he called its “assassination” of
Osama bin Laden, saying the al-Qaida leader should have been captured
and put on trial, and he assailed the British government for using
militarized drones to kill two British jihadists in Syria in August.
He advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament and has urged the
elimination of Trident, his country’s nuclear weapons system. He
opposes any British military intervention in Syria and wants to put
pressure on “our supposed allies in the region”—read Saudi Arabia—that
support Islamic State. He has called for talks with the leaders of
warring factions in Iraq and Afghanistan to end the conflicts.
“There is no solution to the killing and abuse of human rights [in the
Middle East] that involves yet more Western military action,” Corbyn
has written. “Ultimately there has to be a political solution in the
region which bombing by NATO forces cannot bring about. The drama of
the killings and advances by ISIS in the past few weeks is yet another
result of the Bush-Blair war on terror since 2001. The victims of
these wars are the refugees and those driven from their homes and the
thousands of unknown civilians who have died and will continue to die
in the region. The ‘winners’ are inevitably the arms manufacturers and
those who gain from the natural resources of the region.”
And that is just his foreign policy.
Corbyn says he will back significantly increasing taxes on the wealthy
and ending the unfair tax breaks of corporations. He is for imposing
safeguards to protect those on welfare and instituting a “maximum
wage” for corporate executives in order to fight “grotesque levels of
inequality.” He would install widespread rent control to stop what he
caused by gentrification. He has called on the Bank of England tothat.”
carry out what he terms a “People’s Quantitative Easing,” demanding it
invest billions in housing, energy and other infrastructure projects.
He supports the creation of a sanctuary in the Antarctic to prevent
mining and oil drilling there. He opposes fracking. He calls for
government investment to build renewable energy based on solar and
wind, and “global regulation” to prevent the export of carbon
products. And he would end the steps to privatize parts of his
country’s universal health care system, known as the National Health
Service.
As Labour veered to the right and became dominated by corporate money
and neoliberalism under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown—a
process also carried out by the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton
and Barack Obama—Corbyn became a rebel in his own party. Between 1997
and 2010, as a member of Parliament, where he has held a seat since
1983, he voted against bills or challenged positions championed by the
“new” Labour Party leadership more than 500 times. Blair, who detests
Corbyn, warned that if Labour backs Corbyn in the next election for
prime minister (which is set for 2020 but can be held any time a
no-confidence vote occurs in Parliament), it will face “annihilation”
at the polls. Corbyn responded by suggesting that Blair should be
prosecuted as a war criminal for his role in the 2003 invasion of
Iraq.
Corbyn, in the course of his roughly 40 years on the fringes of the
British political establishment, has called for the abolition of the
British monarchy and has described Karl Marx as “a fascinating figure
who observed a great deal and from whom we can learn a great deal.” He
wants to nationalize energy companies and renationalize the post
office and the rail service.
“Without exception, the majority electricity, gas, water and railway
infrastructures of Britain were built through public investment since
the end of WWII and were all privatised at knock-down prices for the
benefit of greedy asset-strippers by the Thatcher and [John] Major-led
Tory governments,” he wrote in a column for the Morning Star newspaper.
He has raised the possibility of the U.K. leaving the European Union,
citing the EU’s draconian assault on the Greek people in the name of
austerity.
“Look at it another way,” Corbyn said. “If we allow unaccountable
forces to destroy an economy like Greece, when all that bailout money
isn’t going to the Greek people, it’s going to various banks all
across Europe, then I think we need to think very, very carefully
about what role they [the EU] are playing and what role we are playing in
Corbyn has proposed a National Education Service that would, withbe unquestioned.
increased taxes on corporations, provide free universal education
starting with day care and going up through vocational schools, adult
education programs and universities. He would abolish the British
equivalent of charter schools and end the tax-exempt status of the
elite private schools. He would bring back state funding for the arts.
He issued a statement in August titled “The arts are for everyone not
the few; there is creativity in all of us.” It is worth reading.
The arts community in the United States, like that in Britain, is in
deep distress. Actors, dancers, musicians, sculptors, singers,
painters, writers, poets and even journalists often cannot make a
living. They have few spaces where they can perform or publish new
work. And established theaters, desperate to make money to survive,
produce tawdry spectacles or plays that are empty pieces of
entertainment rather than art. The war on the arts has been one of the
major contributions to the dumbing down of America. It shuts us off
from our intellectual and artistic patrimony, contributing to our
historical and cultural amnesia. The parallel removal of the arts from
school curriculums, now dominated by vocational skills and
standardized testing, has cemented into place a system in which
Americans have been taught what to think, not how to think.
Self-expression and creativity, disciplines that make possible
self-awareness, transcendence and the capacity for reverence, are
anathemas to the corporate state. The imposed dogma of neoliberalism must
“Under the guise of a politically motivated austerity programme, thiswill vote.
government has savaged arts funding with projects increasingly
required to justify their artistic and social contributions in the
narrow, ruthlessly instrumentalist approach of the Thatcher
governments,” Corbyn wrote in the August statement. “During the 1980s,
[then-Prime Minister Margaret] Thatcher sought to disempower the arts
community, attempting to silence the provocative in favour of the
populist. The current climate of Treasury value measurement
methodologies (taken from practises used in the property market and
elsewhere) to try to find mechanisms appropriate to calculating the
value of visiting art galleries or the opera are a dangerous retreat
into a callous commercialisation of every sphere of our lives. The
result has been a devastating £82 million in cuts to the arts council
budget over the last
5
years and the closure of the great majority of currently funded arts
organisations, especially outside London.”
He went on:
“Beyond the obvious economic and social benefits of the arts is the
significant contribution to our communities, education, and democratic
process they make. Studies have demonstrated the beneficial impact of
drama studied at schools on the capacity of teenagers to communicate,
learn, and to tolerate each other as well as on the likelihood that they
Thecalls “social cleansing”
greater involvement of young people in the political process is
something to be encouraged and celebrated. Further, the contribution
and critique of our society and democracy which theatre has the
capacity to offer must be protected. To quote David Lan, ‘dissent is
necessary to democracy, and democratic governments should have an
interest in preserving sites in which that dissent can be expressed.’
”
Corbyn says he would also reverse the government cuts that gutted the
BBC.
He understands that the destruction of public broadcasting, which is
designed to give a platform to voices and artists not beholden to
corporate money, means the rise of a corporate-dominated system of
propaganda, one that now controls most of the U.S. airwaves.
“I firmly believe in the principle of public service broadcast and am
fearful of following the path tread in the United States, where PBS
has been hollowed out, unable to deliver the breadth of content to
compete with the private broadcasters, and where Fox News has as a
result been effectively allowed to dominate and set the news agenda,”
he wrote. “I want to see the Labour Party at the heart of campaigns to
protect the BBC and its license fee. When we [Labour] return to power
we must fully fund public service broadcasting in all its forms,
recognising the crucial role the BBC has played in establishing and
supporting world class domestic arts, drama, and entertainment.”
Corbyn became a vegetarian at the age of 20 after working on a pig
farm and witnessing the abuse, torture and slaughter of the animals.
He champions animal rights. He does not own a car, bicycles almost
everywhere and is notoriously frugal, usually filing the lowest
expense of any member of Parliament. His favorite novelist is the late
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who wrote “Things Fall Apart,” an
exploration of the destructive force of colonialism. Corbyn speaks
fluent Spanish and comes from a left-wing family.
(His parents met at a rally in support of the Republicans fighting
Franco’s fascists during the Spanish Civil War.) He is acutely aware
of the problem of male violence against women. He would halt the
government’s closure of domestic violence centers for women, fight
discrimination against women in the workplace and bolster laws against
sexual harassment and sexual assault. He says his Cabinet would be 50
percent women.
Corbyn’s ascent to the head of the Labour Party has already triggered
a backlash against him by the forces of the neoliberal political
order. These forces are determined to prevent him from becoming prime
minister. The entrenched elites within his own party—a number of whom
have already resigned from party leadership positions in protest of
Corbyn’s election—will seek to do to him what the Democratic
establishment did in
1972 to George McGovern after he won the party’s nomination. The
rhetoric of fear has already begun. Prime Minister David Cameron on
Sunday tweeted:
“The
Labour Party is now a threat to our national security, our economic
security and your family’s security.” This battle will be ugly.
Corbyn, like Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, is part of the new
popular resistance that is rising up from the ruins of neoliberalism
and globalization to fight the international banking system and
American imperialism. We have yet to mount this battle effectively in
the United States. But we, especially because we live in the heart of
empire, have a special responsibility to defy the machine, held in
place by the Democratic Party establishment, the war industry, Wall
Street and groups such as the Israel lobby. We too must work to build
a socialist nation. We may not win, but this fight is the only hope
left to save ourselves from the predatory forces bent on the
destruction of democracy and the ecosystem on which we depend for
life. If the forces that oppose us triumph, we will have no future left.
http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/ Where Is Our
Jeremy Corbyn?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/where_is_our_jeremy_corbyn_2015091
3/
Posted on Sep 13, 2015
By Chris Hedges
Jeremy Corbyn waves in London after he was elected the leader of the
Labour Party on Saturday. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP) The politics of
Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide Saturday to lead Britain’s
Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the
global revolt against corporate tyranny. He had spent his long career
as a pariah within his country’s political establishment. But because
he held fast to the socialist ideals that defined the old Labour
Party, he has risen untarnished out of the ash heap of neoliberalism.
His integrity, as well as his fearlessness, offers a lesson to
America’s self-identified left, which is long on rhetoric, preoccupied
with accommodating the power elites—especially those in the Democratic
Party—and very short on courage.
I will not support a politician who sells out the Palestinians and
panders to the Israel lobby any more than I will support a politician
who refuses to confront the bloated military and arms industry or
white supremacy and racial injustice. The Palestinian issue is not a
tangential issue. It is an integral part of Americans’ efforts to
dismantle our war machine, the neoliberal policies that see austerity
and violence as the primary language for speaking to the rest of the
world, and the corroding influence of money in the U.S. political
system. Stand up to the masters of war and the Israel lobby and you
will probably stand up to every other corporate and neoliberal force
that is cannibalizing the United States. This is what leadership is
about. It is about having a vision. And it is about fighting for that
vision.
Corbyn, who supports negotiations with Hamas and Hezbollah and once
invited members from those organizations to visit Parliament, has
called for Israel’s leaders to be put on trial for war crimes against
the Palestinians.
He has expressed support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions
movement
(BDS) against Israel and the call for an arms embargo against that
nation.
He would scrap Britain’s Prevention of Terrorism Act, which, like the
Patriot Act in the United States, has been used to target and harass
Muslims. He wants the United Kingdom to withdraw from NATO. He cannot
conceive of any situation, he has said, that would necessitate sending
British troops abroad. He was a vocal opponent of the invasion and
occupation of Iraq and a founder of the Stop the War Coalition. He
denounced the United States for what he called its “assassination” of
Osama bin Laden, saying the al-Qaida leader should have been captured
and put on trial, and he assailed the British government for using
militarized drones to kill two British jihadists in Syria in August.
He advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament and has urged the
elimination of Trident, his country’s nuclear weapons system. He
opposes any British military intervention in Syria and wants to put
pressure on “our supposed allies in the region”—read Saudi Arabia—that
support Islamic State. He has called for talks with the leaders of
warring factions in Iraq and Afghanistan to end the conflicts.
“There is no solution to the killing and abuse of human rights [in the
Middle East] that involves yet more Western military action,” Corbyn
has written. “Ultimately there has to be a political solution in the
region which bombing by NATO forces cannot bring about. The drama of
the killings and advances by ISIS in the past few weeks is yet another
result of the Bush-Blair war on terror since 2001. The victims of
these wars are the refugees and those driven from their homes and the
thousands of unknown civilians who have died and will continue to die
in the region. The ‘winners’ are inevitably the arms manufacturers and
those who gain from the natural resources of the region.”
And that is just his foreign policy.
Corbyn says he will back significantly increasing taxes on the wealthy
and ending the unfair tax breaks of corporations. He is for imposing
safeguards to protect those on welfare and instituting a “maximum
wage” for corporate executives in order to fight “grotesque levels of
inequality.” He would install widespread rent control to stop what he
caused by gentrification. He has called on the Bank of England tothat.”
carry out what he terms a “People’s Quantitative Easing,” demanding it
invest billions in housing, energy and other infrastructure projects.
He supports the creation of a sanctuary in the Antarctic to prevent
mining and oil drilling there. He opposes fracking. He calls for
government investment to build renewable energy based on solar and
wind, and “global regulation” to prevent the export of carbon
products. And he would end the steps to privatize parts of his
country’s universal health care system, known as the National Health
Service.
As Labour veered to the right and became dominated by corporate money
and neoliberalism under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown—a
process also carried out by the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton
and Barack Obama—Corbyn became a rebel in his own party. Between 1997
and 2010, as a member of Parliament, where he has held a seat since
1983, he voted against bills or challenged positions championed by the
“new” Labour Party leadership more than 500 times. Blair, who detests
Corbyn, warned that if Labour backs Corbyn in the next election for
prime minister (which is set for 2020 but can be held any time a
no-confidence vote occurs in Parliament), it will face “annihilation”
at the polls. Corbyn responded by suggesting that Blair should be
prosecuted as a war criminal for his role in the 2003 invasion of
Iraq.
Corbyn, in the course of his roughly 40 years on the fringes of the
British political establishment, has called for the abolition of the
British monarchy and has described Karl Marx as “a fascinating figure
who observed a great deal and from whom we can learn a great deal.” He
wants to nationalize energy companies and renationalize the post
office and the rail service.
“Without exception, the majority electricity, gas, water and railway
infrastructures of Britain were built through public investment since
the end of WWII and were all privatised at knock-down prices for the
benefit of greedy asset-strippers by the Thatcher and [John] Major-led
Tory governments,” he wrote in a column for the Morning Star newspaper.
He has raised the possibility of the U.K. leaving the European Union,
citing the EU’s draconian assault on the Greek people in the name of
austerity.
“Look at it another way,” Corbyn said. “If we allow unaccountable
forces to destroy an economy like Greece, when all that bailout money
isn’t going to the Greek people, it’s going to various banks all
across Europe, then I think we need to think very, very carefully
about what role they [the EU] are playing and what role we are playing in
Corbyn has proposed a National Education Service that would, withbe unquestioned.
increased taxes on corporations, provide free universal education
starting with day care and going up through vocational schools, adult
education programs and universities. He would abolish the British
equivalent of charter schools and end the tax-exempt status of the
elite private schools. He would bring back state funding for the arts.
He issued a statement in August titled “The arts are for everyone not
the few; there is creativity in all of us.” It is worth reading.
The arts community in the United States, like that in Britain, is in
deep distress. Actors, dancers, musicians, sculptors, singers,
painters, writers, poets and even journalists often cannot make a
living. They have few spaces where they can perform or publish new
work. And established theaters, desperate to make money to survive,
produce tawdry spectacles or plays that are empty pieces of
entertainment rather than art. The war on the arts has been one of the
major contributions to the dumbing down of America. It shuts us off
from our intellectual and artistic patrimony, contributing to our
historical and cultural amnesia. The parallel removal of the arts from
school curriculums, now dominated by vocational skills and
standardized testing, has cemented into place a system in which
Americans have been taught what to think, not how to think.
Self-expression and creativity, disciplines that make possible
self-awareness, transcendence and the capacity for reverence, are
anathemas to the corporate state. The imposed dogma of neoliberalism must
“Under the guise of a politically motivated austerity programme, thiswill vote.
government has savaged arts funding with projects increasingly
required to justify their artistic and social contributions in the
narrow, ruthlessly instrumentalist approach of the Thatcher
governments,” Corbyn wrote in the August statement. “During the 1980s,
[then-Prime Minister Margaret] Thatcher sought to disempower the arts
community, attempting to silence the provocative in favour of the
populist. The current climate of Treasury value measurement
methodologies (taken from practises used in the property market and
elsewhere) to try to find mechanisms appropriate to calculating the
value of visiting art galleries or the opera are a dangerous retreat
into a callous commercialisation of every sphere of our lives. The
result has been a devastating £82 million in cuts to the arts council
budget over the last
5
years and the closure of the great majority of currently funded arts
organisations, especially outside London.”
He went on:
“Beyond the obvious economic and social benefits of the arts is the
significant contribution to our communities, education, and democratic
process they make. Studies have demonstrated the beneficial impact of
drama studied at schools on the capacity of teenagers to communicate,
learn, and to tolerate each other as well as on the likelihood that they
Thetp://www.linkedin.com/company/truthdighttp://truthdig.tumblr.com/http://www.
greater involvement of young people in the political process is
something to be encouraged and celebrated. Further, the contribution
and critique of our society and democracy which theatre has the
capacity to offer must be protected. To quote David Lan, ‘dissent is
necessary to democracy, and democratic governments should have an
interest in preserving sites in which that dissent can be expressed.’
”
Corbyn says he would also reverse the government cuts that gutted the
BBC.
He understands that the destruction of public broadcasting, which is
designed to give a platform to voices and artists not beholden to
corporate money, means the rise of a corporate-dominated system of
propaganda, one that now controls most of the U.S. airwaves.
“I firmly believe in the principle of public service broadcast and am
fearful of following the path tread in the United States, where PBS
has been hollowed out, unable to deliver the breadth of content to
compete with the private broadcasters, and where Fox News has as a
result been effectively allowed to dominate and set the news agenda,”
he wrote. “I want to see the Labour Party at the heart of campaigns to
protect the BBC and its license fee. When we [Labour] return to power
we must fully fund public service broadcasting in all its forms,
recognising the crucial role the BBC has played in establishing and
supporting world class domestic arts, drama, and entertainment.”
Corbyn became a vegetarian at the age of 20 after working on a pig
farm and witnessing the abuse, torture and slaughter of the animals.
He champions animal rights. He does not own a car, bicycles almost
everywhere and is notoriously frugal, usually filing the lowest
expense of any member of Parliament. His favorite novelist is the late
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who wrote “Things Fall Apart,” an
exploration of the destructive force of colonialism. Corbyn speaks
fluent Spanish and comes from a left-wing family.
(His parents met at a rally in support of the Republicans fighting
Franco’s fascists during the Spanish Civil War.) He is acutely aware
of the problem of male violence against women. He would halt the
government’s closure of domestic violence centers for women, fight
discrimination against women in the workplace and bolster laws against
sexual harassment and sexual assault. He says his Cabinet would be 50
percent women.
Corbyn’s ascent to the head of the Labour Party has already triggered
a backlash against him by the forces of the neoliberal political
order. These forces are determined to prevent him from becoming prime
minister. The entrenched elites within his own party—a number of whom
have already resigned from party leadership positions in protest of
Corbyn’s election—will seek to do to him what the Democratic
establishment did in
1972 to George McGovern after he won the party’s nomination. The
rhetoric of fear has already begun. Prime Minister David Cameron on
Sunday tweeted:
“The
Labour Party is now a threat to our national security, our economic
security and your family’s security.” This battle will be ugly.
Corbyn, like Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, is part of the new
popular resistance that is rising up from the ruins of neoliberalism
and globalization to fight the international banking system and
American imperialism. We have yet to mount this battle effectively in
the United States. But we, especially because we live in the heart of
empire, have a special responsibility to defy the machine, held in
place by the Democratic Party establishment, the war industry, Wall
Street and groups such as the Israel lobby. We too must work to build
a socialist nation. We may not win, but this fight is the only hope
left to save ourselves from the predatory forces bent on the
destruction of democracy and the ecosystem on which we depend for
life. If the forces that oppose us triumph, we will have no future left.
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