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Boris Johnson Accused of ‘Power Grab’ over Scotland’s Post-Brexit Powers

13Jul

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Politics, United Kingdom

Boris Johnson Accused of ‘Power Grab’ over Scotland’s Post-Brexit Powers

By Johanna Ross The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has lambasted the British government over reports that it may control rights over ‘state aid’ after Brexit. ‘State aid’, which allows a government to subsidise companies, is currently controlled by the EU, but Holyrood had assumed that it would gain control of this area of legislation post-Brexit. Not if Westminster has anything to do with it, it seems. In what already being termed a ‘power grab’ by the SNP’s Ian Blackford, London may try to seize control of this and other responsibilities, according to a report in the Financial Times. In response to the article, Nicola Sturgeon said such a move would be a ‘full-scale assault on devolution’ and that it would only further ‘boost support for independence’....

The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy

13Jul

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Literature, Politics

The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy

By Andrew Jackson Modern Monetary Theory or MMT has crept in from the academic margins to become an influential doctrine in progressive policy circles in the United States. Both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders drew on the ideas of MMT to shape their ambitious public spending platforms. MMT has been cited as one way to fund a Green New Deal, in combination with progressive tax reform. It is safe to say that most Canadian progressives are not debating the finer points of monetary and fiscal policy. However it is useful to critically consider some of the most important pros and cons of MMT, based on the new book by a leading US advocate, Stephanie Kelton. (The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy. New York: Public Affairs, ...

Money Capital versus “Life Capital”. Prof. John McMurtry

13Jul

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Literature, Politics

Money Capital versus “Life Capital”. Prof. John McMurtry

The War of Values We Live or Die By By Prof. John McMurtry and Dr. Jeffery Klaehn Author of UNESCOs ‘Philosophy and World Problems’, Professor John McMurtry is questioned on the planetary life-system crisis by media critic Dr. Jeffery Klaehn. Klaehn: You have stated that ‘the war of values is what is least comprehended in our multi-level world crisis’. What is this war of values? McMurtry: The blind spot at the highest levels of critical thought is on the underlying value system we are ruled by. The dominant assumption is that ‘moral compass’ and ‘values’ are a matter of individual preferences, or are ideological masks for ruling-class interests. The value system we in fact live by is presupposed as economic necessity an...

12Jul

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Human Rights, Politics, World

“Into the World of Bad Spirits”: Slavery and Plantation Culture

by MICHAEL WELTON Between 1500 and 1880 ten to eleven million Africans were moved by force and terror into “new worlds.” Sir Philip Sherlock and Hazel Bennett write of the immensity of the “physical suffering, anguish of spirit and unbearable cruelty” of their lot “from the time of … capture” (The Story of the Jamaican People [1997, p. 122]). Chained together in the “floating tombs,” Africans were bound for a strange land and doomed to serve a strange owner of another race for life. Gordon Lewis, author of the monumental Main Currents in Caribbean Thought: the historical evolution of Caribbean society in its ideological aspects, 1492-1900 [1983, p. 5], comments: “Caribbean society thus became a society of masters and slaves. It constituted open and systematic expl...

UK’s Labour Leader Sacks the Most Left-Wing Member of His Shadow Cabinet

12Jul

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Politics, United Kingdom

UK’s Labour Leader Sacks the Most Left-Wing Member of His Shadow Cabinet

by KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: Chris McAndrew – CC BY 3.0 As a Labour party member, it is unavoidable that I should have an opinion on the party leader Keir Starmer’s sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey. RLB was shadow education secretary until her dismissal, as well as being Starmer’s primary opponent for the party leadership when Jeremy Corbyn resigned after Labour lost to the Tories in December’s general election. In the leadership election I voted for Long-Bailey, with the current shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy as my second choice, and Starmer was last of the 3 candidates I could vote for. RLB made a mistake in retweeting the actor Maxine Peake’s accusation that US police forces are taught the neck restraint technique by the Israelis. Peake subsequently apologiz...

Will Covid Start a Trade War Over U.S. Meat Exports?

12Jul

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Environment, Health, Politics

Will Covid Start a Trade War Over U.S. Meat Exports?

by MARTHA ROSENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On June 21, the official China website posted that products from Tyson Foods’ Springdale, Arkansas plant “that have arrived or are about to arrive in Hong Kong will be temporarily suspended by the customs department.” Two days earlier, 455 Tyson Foods workers living in Benton and Washington counties in which Springdale is located were found to be COVID-19 positive. Most were asymptomatic. The meat industry and public health groups say transmission of a virus like COVID-19, SARS or MERS through meat is unlikely. But apparently China, whose love of eating palm civet cats mired it into a huge SARS outbreak, is less sure. Scientists also have their doubts. Researchers writing in the EMBO journal found the enz...

How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order

12Jul

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

How Racism is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order

by RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair U.S. capitalism survived because it found a solution to the basic problem of its instability, its business cycles. Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve that tolerability. Capitalism provided conditions for the reproduction of systemic racism, and vice versa. Every four to seven years, on average, capitalism produces a downturn (“recession,” “depression,” “bust,” “crash”—many words for a problem so regularly repeated). Political leaders, economists, and others have long searched for a cure for capitalism’s instability. None...

Truth is Our Weapon and Shield – An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings

12Jul

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C.I.A, Politics, USA

Truth is Our Weapon and Shield – An Interview with Black Panther Party Veteran Billy X Jennings

by YOAV LITVIN Billy X Jennings, 2015. Truth and reconciliation commissions attempt to heal divided nations after the injustice has ceased. They rely on a process of education in which a reckoning with hard truths of systemic oppression lead to national accountability, reparations for victims, healing and potential unity. However, truth and reconciliation commissions, such as the one in South Africa, are the consequence of decades of sustained struggle and pressure from within and outside the country by relatively small revolutionary organizations, which are often relentlessly persecuted by state forces. In the following interview, I speak with Black Panther Party (BPP) veteran member, activist, educator and archivist Billy X Jennings who acted as the person...

10Jul

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

Daily Life in Occupied Palestine

IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG YouTube has restricted our video and placed an unusually dire content warning on it. Please see our related article for the full details and to demand they stop the censorship. Most Americans, whose government gives Israel over $10 million per day, have no idea that Israel commits human rights abuses every single day, since US media virtually never report this information: that Israeli forces daily invade Palestinian villages, daily abduct people, and daily injure people; that virtually every week Israeli forces destroy farmers’ trees, demolish family homes, confiscate Palestinian land, and more… These clips illustrate the kind of essential information US media companies almost never show Americans. For daily news reports from the Pales...

10Jul

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

“Old prisoners”… Palestinians in the whale’s stomach

Ramzi Mahmoud: The death of the 75-year-old Palestinian prisoner Saadi Al-Gharabally , within Israeli prisons, reminded the issue of “old” Palestinian prisoners, who spent 20 years or more behind bars. On Wednesday, the Palestinian “Prisoners and Editors Affairs Authority” (official) announced the death of the prisoner, “as a result of the“ medical negligence policy ”, two days after he was transferred to the hospital due to his deteriorating health. Al-Gharably spent more than 26 years in Israeli prisons until his death. He was arrested in July 1994 and sentenced to life imprisonment, according to the Palestinian official news agency, Wafa. And held the Palestinian factions and bodies (in separate statements), Israel, the responsibility for the martyr...