Reminder: Centrists gave us Boris Johnson and hard Brexit. Had they united behind Corbyn and an agenda for a Finland-style social democracy, rather than spent their time constantly undermining/smearing him and that agenda, Labour would have won in 2017, with ease.
But now, they’re trying to rewrite history and blame it all on the left. Never mind that Labour’s vote declined hugely throughout the Blair years, and only shot back up again in that 2017 election, under Corbyn.
It was these centrist Blairites who, by their move away from socialism and towards Thatcherism - her ‘greatest legacy’ - destroyed the Labour Party. And they then did everything they could to prevent its rehabilitation, thus making it unelectable. Utter cretins.
Don’t let them and their media rewrite history! The planet NEEDS us to not let them do that!
Thursday, 20 February 2020
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Industrialised food system impairs brain function
Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function.
Our horrific food system is inefficient, responsible for destroying lives and communities all over the world, extremely destructive environmentally, and highly damaging for body and soul.
But as long as the wealthy can profit off that system, and as long as they can afford to eat healthily, I guess that’s all that matters. The planet be damned, and everyone else can eat cheap, processed shit, get sick, and then pay a fortune for drugs so those wealthy few can get wealthier still. All good!
Our horrific food system is inefficient, responsible for destroying lives and communities all over the world, extremely destructive environmentally, and highly damaging for body and soul.
But as long as the wealthy can profit off that system, and as long as they can afford to eat healthily, I guess that’s all that matters. The planet be damned, and everyone else can eat cheap, processed shit, get sick, and then pay a fortune for drugs so those wealthy few can get wealthier still. All good!
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Those who equate the 'far left' with the far right, are the problem
Extreme ‘centrists’ like Andrew Adonis, who fuel the rise of the overt far-right with neoliberal economics, and who constantly attack the left, equating anti-racists with racists, peace-mongers with warmongers, social democrats with neo-fascists, are our greatest enemy and obstacle to securing a peaceful, civilised future.
Corbyn was far too kind to these people. Enormous mistake.
Corbyn was far too kind to these people. Enormous mistake.
Never been clearer that the US is an oligarchy
Following in Trump’s footsteps, another racist, billionaire oligarch - Mike Bloomberg - is currently buying his way to the US presidency. Elites can see the rise of grassroots movements, and are getting desperate - just being puppet-masters is no longer cutting it, it seems.
This time, the billionaire buying his way into politics is doing so in the Democratic Party, exposing more than ever the reality that the US really has just the one party - the party of oligarchy.
He’s spending unprecedented amounts on his PR. I literally can’t look at my phone, mac or TV without seeing his face.
As has always been the case - when billionaires meddle in elections, to rig the system in their favour, it is a totally acceptable thing. Little outrage from media. Apparently some dumb memes from Russia are a far greater threat to the American people.
And it’s working - Bloomberg is second behind Bernie Sanders in some polls now. Even if he doesn’t win, he may well take enough votes/delegates to prevent Sanders from doing so.
Millions of working class Americans, long exploited by the billionaire class, have emptied their pockets donating to a movement for change, led by Sanders, but now one of those billionaires has come along to screw them again!
Please if anyone ever tries to tell you that the US is a democracy, laugh at them. It is an oligarchy.
This time, the billionaire buying his way into politics is doing so in the Democratic Party, exposing more than ever the reality that the US really has just the one party - the party of oligarchy.
He’s spending unprecedented amounts on his PR. I literally can’t look at my phone, mac or TV without seeing his face.
As has always been the case - when billionaires meddle in elections, to rig the system in their favour, it is a totally acceptable thing. Little outrage from media. Apparently some dumb memes from Russia are a far greater threat to the American people.
And it’s working - Bloomberg is second behind Bernie Sanders in some polls now. Even if he doesn’t win, he may well take enough votes/delegates to prevent Sanders from doing so.
Millions of working class Americans, long exploited by the billionaire class, have emptied their pockets donating to a movement for change, led by Sanders, but now one of those billionaires has come along to screw them again!
Please if anyone ever tries to tell you that the US is a democracy, laugh at them. It is an oligarchy.
Monday, 17 February 2020
Proponents of the west's bogus 'war on terror' attack China for (genuinely) fighting terror
Those who waged a bogus ‘war on terror’- which was really a global war for oil/hegemony, and which literally killed millions of Muslims - are now condemning (and I imagine, making shit up about), what the Chinese government is doing in Xinjiang following a series of horrific Wahhabi terror attacks.
And let’s not forget that those in the west who’re doing this accusing and condemning, are the same people who’re chiefly responsible for spreading that Wahhabism, by direct support for its adherents (the Syrian ‘rebels’ etc), and by all those oil wars which obviously led to radicalization.
So. Fucked. Up.
I am not saying the PRC is innocent - this podcast seems to give a balanced account of the government's actions towards the Uyghurs - but they are most definitely not wreaking the kind of havoc that NATO states did after terrorist attacks. (Terrorism which they ultimately caused by supporting the Wahhabi Mujahideen in the 1980s, which led to the formation of al Qaeda, don’t forget). China is not using the threat as an excuse to embark on imperialist wars.
Any outraged western politician, or media commentator who works for an outlet that manufactured consent for the bloody havoc of the ‘war on terror’, and who now proclaims to know the truth about what is going on in China, and is supposedly outraged by it, can piss right off!
It’s laughable really, that any westerner feels they have any right to judge China for anything.
And let’s not forget that those in the west who’re doing this accusing and condemning, are the same people who’re chiefly responsible for spreading that Wahhabism, by direct support for its adherents (the Syrian ‘rebels’ etc), and by all those oil wars which obviously led to radicalization.
So. Fucked. Up.
I am not saying the PRC is innocent - this podcast seems to give a balanced account of the government's actions towards the Uyghurs - but they are most definitely not wreaking the kind of havoc that NATO states did after terrorist attacks. (Terrorism which they ultimately caused by supporting the Wahhabi Mujahideen in the 1980s, which led to the formation of al Qaeda, don’t forget). China is not using the threat as an excuse to embark on imperialist wars.
Any outraged western politician, or media commentator who works for an outlet that manufactured consent for the bloody havoc of the ‘war on terror’, and who now proclaims to know the truth about what is going on in China, and is supposedly outraged by it, can piss right off!
It’s laughable really, that any westerner feels they have any right to judge China for anything.
Myth-Busting
Some myth-busting and uncomfortable truths. (A work in progress that I will update as and when anything comes to mind):
NATO is an aggressive military alliance, whose purpose is to advance the hegemony of western capital.
Russia acts defensively, and did not ‘invade’ Crimea. Crimeans voted to rejoin Russia following a US-backed coup in Ukraine in collusion with neo-Nazis. Nor did Russia invade Georgia, or Syria. An EU court ruled that Georgia was responsible for what happened there, and in Syria, Russia intervened, (at request of the UN-recognised government), in order to prevent extremist sectarian groups from taking over a country on their doorstep. Ultimately all of this is a result of NATO expansion and aggression.
China is not a threat to peace - the US is.
The US is not a force for good in the world; it doesn’t care about your ‘freedom’, only about the freedom for western capitalists to profit. Millions killed in that pursuit.
China is developing in a FAR less violent, less inhumane manner, than western powers did. It is not as yet acting imperially on the world stage - it is not waging wars/installing puppet regimes, etc. And it is being FAR more environmentally responsible.
China is not a free market capitalist state. It's economy is centrally managed by a socialist government, and industry is about 50% government-owned. A mixed economy.
Venezuela has a democratically elected, social democratic government.
Western 'liberal' politicians frequently support far-right movements across Latin America and elsewhere.
Jeremy Corbyn was the closest the UK ever came to having a decent, anti-racist, uncorrupt, compassionate PM.
Assad isn’t ‘gassing his own people’. He and the majority of Syrians have been resisting a sectarian insurgency of 'rebel' groups ideologically similar to al Qaeda, who have been backed by the US/NATO and proxy states in the region, with $billions of support. This is nothing new - extremist jihadist groups have often been allies of the west. Support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s, resulted in the formation of al Qaeda.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism
Israel is the aggressor. Palestine, the victim.
Hezbollah is an anti-imperialist resistance group.
We have a billionaire-run media, not a ‘free press’.
Julian Assange is in prison for exposing the corruption/criminality of the powerful; for doing real journalism.
The west does not care about international law. Western leaders instead talk of a 'rules based system', to appear as though they do.
The west has installed/supported fascists all around the world.
Africa is not poor - western capitalists/corporations steal its wealth.
The ‘Cold War’ was more like a war waged by the west against any progressive, anti-capitalist, independence movement for democracy. It was very hot for millions of people.
Capitalism is the opposite of democracy; it is the handing over of our lives and resources to a small clique, to be exploited for profit.
Barack Obama, like Trump, is extremely corrupt, and a war criminal.
The NHS is being intentionally destroyed and replaced with an insurance system.
Capitalism is keeping a billion+ people poor and undernourished, and is destroying the environment.
Humans are naturally good and cooperative, not greedy.
America was to blame for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The industrial food system is not just destructive to nature, our health, and farmer's livelihoods - it is also inefficient; Small farms take up just 25% of farmland, but feed 75% of the world's population.
Globalisation is destroying the planet, not keeping peace.
NATO is an aggressive military alliance, whose purpose is to advance the hegemony of western capital.
Russia acts defensively, and did not ‘invade’ Crimea. Crimeans voted to rejoin Russia following a US-backed coup in Ukraine in collusion with neo-Nazis. Nor did Russia invade Georgia, or Syria. An EU court ruled that Georgia was responsible for what happened there, and in Syria, Russia intervened, (at request of the UN-recognised government), in order to prevent extremist sectarian groups from taking over a country on their doorstep. Ultimately all of this is a result of NATO expansion and aggression.
China is not a threat to peace - the US is.
The US is not a force for good in the world; it doesn’t care about your ‘freedom’, only about the freedom for western capitalists to profit. Millions killed in that pursuit.
China is developing in a FAR less violent, less inhumane manner, than western powers did. It is not as yet acting imperially on the world stage - it is not waging wars/installing puppet regimes, etc. And it is being FAR more environmentally responsible.
China is not a free market capitalist state. It's economy is centrally managed by a socialist government, and industry is about 50% government-owned. A mixed economy.
Venezuela has a democratically elected, social democratic government.
Western 'liberal' politicians frequently support far-right movements across Latin America and elsewhere.
Jeremy Corbyn was the closest the UK ever came to having a decent, anti-racist, uncorrupt, compassionate PM.
Assad isn’t ‘gassing his own people’. He and the majority of Syrians have been resisting a sectarian insurgency of 'rebel' groups ideologically similar to al Qaeda, who have been backed by the US/NATO and proxy states in the region, with $billions of support. This is nothing new - extremist jihadist groups have often been allies of the west. Support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s, resulted in the formation of al Qaeda.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism
Israel is the aggressor. Palestine, the victim.
Hezbollah is an anti-imperialist resistance group.
We have a billionaire-run media, not a ‘free press’.
Julian Assange is in prison for exposing the corruption/criminality of the powerful; for doing real journalism.
The west does not care about international law. Western leaders instead talk of a 'rules based system', to appear as though they do.
The west has installed/supported fascists all around the world.
Africa is not poor - western capitalists/corporations steal its wealth.
The ‘Cold War’ was more like a war waged by the west against any progressive, anti-capitalist, independence movement for democracy. It was very hot for millions of people.
Capitalism is the opposite of democracy; it is the handing over of our lives and resources to a small clique, to be exploited for profit.
Barack Obama, like Trump, is extremely corrupt, and a war criminal.
The NHS is being intentionally destroyed and replaced with an insurance system.
Capitalism is keeping a billion+ people poor and undernourished, and is destroying the environment.
Humans are naturally good and cooperative, not greedy.
America was to blame for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The industrial food system is not just destructive to nature, our health, and farmer's livelihoods - it is also inefficient; Small farms take up just 25% of farmland, but feed 75% of the world's population.
Globalisation is destroying the planet, not keeping peace.
Will 'centrists' ever stop ruining our lives and planet?
Read here and here.
We should be putting a lot of blame on the arrogant ‘centre’ for our current situation. They abandoned the left in the 1980s, jumping on board with neoliberalism, and then following the inevitable chaos created by that neoliberalism, they refused to accept responsibility and come back to the left.
If they had done this - instead of constantly attacking, smearing and undermining the left, as they did in the 1980s, and as they did again these last few years - Labour would have won the general election in 2017, with ease.
But no, Nordic-style social democracy is ‘too extreme’!
It should be quite clear who the real extremists are.
We should be putting a lot of blame on the arrogant ‘centre’ for our current situation. They abandoned the left in the 1980s, jumping on board with neoliberalism, and then following the inevitable chaos created by that neoliberalism, they refused to accept responsibility and come back to the left.
If they had done this - instead of constantly attacking, smearing and undermining the left, as they did in the 1980s, and as they did again these last few years - Labour would have won the general election in 2017, with ease.
But no, Nordic-style social democracy is ‘too extreme’!
It should be quite clear who the real extremists are.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)