In a recent meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Vice President Kamala Harris outlined some of the problems she and President Biden plan to tackle in Central America: the impact of extreme weather events like hurricanes and droughts, the sustainability of the agricultural sector and political corruption. All these are what the administration has described as the “root causes” of migration, the factors driving hundreds of thousands of.
Anti-imperialism of fools?
Daniel Lazare savages the ‘solidarity with the Syrian people’ petition fronted by disorientated luminaries such as Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot and Ariel Dorfman
When conservatives cover up the crimes of imperialism, it is par for the course. But, when the self-proclaimed left does it, it is worse, since the result is confusion and dismay in the ranks of what should be imperialism’s main opponents.
A case in point is a recent petition about Syria signed by more than 700 left-leaning intellectuals, among them such luminaries as Noam Chomsky, George Monbiot, Ariel Dorfman and the sociologist, Saskia Sassen.
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Project Fear 2 and Europe for Scotland
With less than a week to go to voting at Holyrood the media has been awash with nostalgia as all platforms and mediums beamed out Project Fear 2. Nicola Sturgeon was hounded from studio to studio and a sort of feeding frenzy emerged as papers and programmes tried to out-bid each other in the war against a referendum: “Nicola Sturgeon struggles to answer key questions about Scottish independence” tried the Telegraph, “Independence would result in a hard border” said The Scotsman, “Nicola Sturgeon dealt ‘hammer blow’ as RBS warns it will move to London under independence” cried the Daily Express … and on and on. The Herald focused on the fact that the FM didn’t claim she’d remove Trident immediately and banks and companies lined up to say they’d leave if people voted to govern themselves.
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