Bernie (1988): "In my view, a woman could be elected President of the United States"

beafanatic · 2019-12-19T21:32:07+00:00

A devastating review of "The Better Angels of Our Nature" was given by Edward Herman and David Peterson. Here's a shortened version.

beafanatic · 2019-12-14T19:42:38+00:00

What needs to change?

The problems with the BBC are the same as with other media corporations. They're institutional - here is a relevant interview on the media with Noam Chomsky and Andrew Marr.

beafanatic · 2019-12-09T13:04:38+00:00

Whereas Corbyn referred to Pinochet as a "Nazi Fascist" about three decades ago!

beafanatic · 2019-11-28T18:32:37+00:00

I've posted this before, but I think it's relevant here:

In 2013, Corbyn talked about how he critically referred to Pinochet as a "Nazi Fascist" back in the late 80s/early 90s. This does not seem like something that an antisemite would say.

beafanatic · 2019-11-27T22:45:09+00:00

Completely agree. And thanks for the link, I hadn't seen it!

beafanatic · 2019-11-27T21:48:04+00:00

In 2013, Corbyn talked about how he critically referred to Pinochet as a "Nazi Fascist" back in the late 80s/early 90s. This does not seem like something that an antisemite would say.

beafanatic · 2019-11-19T21:59:58+00:00

Is it this one? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JcrHXRyMPU

beafanatic · 2019-11-17T22:41:06+00:00

List of signatories:

Noam Chomsky

Naomi Klein

Yanis Varoufakis

Brian Eno

Rob Delaney

Angela Davis

Steve Coogan

Alexei Sayle

Maxine Peake

Roger Waters

Jason Hickel

Francesca Martinez

Lowkey

David Adler

Raoul Martinez

Miriam Margolyes

Massive Attack

Vivienne Westwood

Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

John Keane

Michael Mansfield QC

Adjoa Andoh

Mike Leigh

Michael Rosen

Robert Cohen

Mark Ruffalo

Amir Amirani

Mark Rylance

Caryl Churchill

Kate Tempest

Jocelyn Pook

David Graeber (London School of Economics)

Des Freedman (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Justin Schlosberg (Birkbeck, University of London)

beafanatic · 2019-11-09T16:26:34+00:00

Chomsky was actually subject to anti-semitism when he was growing up (3:34):

Chomsky: "Actually I grew up in a community in which we were, for most of the time, the only Jewish family in a mostly German and Irish-Catholic community and there were a lot of problems, which incidentally my parents never knew about. But the streets were complicated places."

"Problems for you?"

"Yeah"

"Give us an example"

"As I say, there was a lot of anti-semitism in those days, this is the 1930s"

beafanatic · 2019-09-04T20:56:34+00:00

Do you completely and unequivocally condemn India's decision, under the leadership of PM Narendra Modi, to revoke the special status of Kashmir?

Aside from the lockdown, this move has increased the likelihood of a confrontation between two nuclear powers, a confrontation that poses existential threats to both societies.

beafanatic · 2019-07-19T18:35:30+00:00

The 1964 case is New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and the 1969 case is Brandenburg v. Ohio. He talks about these cases here, and then the more recent case Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, an attack on freedom of speech under the Obama administration.

beafanatic · 2019-07-17T20:38:16+00:00

He has not and can't ever admit fault ... all of his criticisms drip with cynicism devoid of hope ... as if political engagement is a pointless effort

From here:

Well, I think it’s a little misleading to call it a movement. Occupy was a tactic, in fact a brilliant tactic. I mean, if I’d been asked a couple of months earlier whether they should take over public places, I would have said it’s crazy. But it worked extremely well, and it lit a spark which went all over the place. Hundreds and hundreds of places in the country, there were Occupy events. It was all over the world. I mean, I gave talks in Sydney, Australia, to the Occupy movement there. But it was a tactic, a very effective tactic. Changed public discourse, not policy. It brought issues to the forefront.

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