Robert Reiner

Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters

The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez

Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.

Polling holds too much sway over our democracy and governance. But the G&D by-election does show that Reform’s dominance is inflated by foreign/rightwing interests, irresponsible media support and Farage’s ego.
If progressives can win despite all that, then hatred really is overpriced. Hope can win.

No one can predict how the war with Iran will unfold | Rajan Menon and Dan DePetris The war has already become regional: Iran is attacking American-aligned Arab states in the hope that they will pressure Trump to sign a ceasefire

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Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression | Kenneth Roth Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Hard hitting expose of growing McCarthyite attack by so called free speech warriors on even non political usages of the term Palestine in history studies. Assaults on academia, journalism and historical or contemporary research and debate. Utterly disgusting

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An expert medical defense of Green drug policy, against its malign misrepresentation by other parties

Against All Enemies Foreign and Domestic

Against All Enemies
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Penetrates the self defeating contradictions of Trump’s ultra violent overseas aggression covering up his failing on so many domestic fronts. Right now hard to feel much beyond utter despair. Despite the great UK political news from Manchester

US war on Iran: A tale of two Trump interviews As he continues to attack Iran, Donald Trump is babbling in public, working out what he thinks as he goes along. And there are journalists willing to help him with that.

US war on Iran: A tale of two Trump interviews
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A tale of two interviews, one in a centrist Trump sceptic paper, the other a Trump friendly right wing outlet. Worryingly neither question his incoherent non justifications of launching world threatening violence

The Economy as Utopia: Keynes, Bourgeois Socialism, and the Promise of Abundance | Critical Historical Studies: Vol 11, No 2 Abstract Scholars have remarked on the recent date at which we began to speak about “the economy” as a definite item. Through an analysis and critique of John Maynard Keynes’s interwar writings, this ...

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Whatever happened to Trump the peacemaker? The weaker Trump is at home, the more dangerous he becomes abroad.

Whatever happened to Trump the peacemaker?
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Convincing analysis of the doom ratchet of Trump the ‘strongman’ committing ever more bloody actions as his dominance is threatened. Trouble is the deadly debris falling on innocent vulnerable people- most of us

America, Iran and the Lessons of Nuremberg The 1946 tribunal called aggression “the supreme international crime.” My government has just committed it.

America, Iran and the Lessons of Nuremberg
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How the British let loose between the wars

A slur was shouted at the Baftas – but what followed was more dispiriting

Why in the world is Melania Trump leading a UN security council meeting? | Arwa Mahdawi The first lady is a Trump and therefore automatically qualified to do anything her heart desires

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All in the family. Godfather style

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Square Mile strikes back: how the City of London is fighting disinformation about crime Panic about antisocial behaviour and theft has broken through from social media to boardrooms and diplomatic circles

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Tired of London tired of life. The slandering of London is so contradictory to experience or statistics. Motivated by business rivalry or jealous projection by right wing elites elsewhere

Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan London mayor criticises PM for calling Greens ‘extreme’ after Gorton and Denton loss, saying it is a ‘flawed strategy’

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Khan speaks as a Labour leader should. But we need him in London

‘Middle East in flames’: what the papers say about the war on Iran Strikes on Iran by the US and Israel, as well as Donald Trump’s announcement that the supreme leader Ali Khamenei had been killed lead the news pages

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Can’t help feeling nobody knows what to say beyond photos of fireworks. With untold dead bodies beneath

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Hope headline is right and US doesn’t rally round the flag

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This was great news for once this Friday. A model for how politicians should be. Representatives of and for the people

Sunday thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War Friends,

Sunday thought: Trump’s Real Reason for War
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Mass murder to protect cruel corrupt criminal rulers in US and Israel. And mini mes elsewhere

The Greens’ win in Gorton and Denton was just the start of the record-breaking

The age of American fascism

Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

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Obstinate clinging to counterproductive cruel policies. It’s not immigration that cripples public services, it’s ultra wealthy elites sucking up all resources for unbelievably gross luxury living. Immigration decline starving caring services of staff

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...

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Who’s the Evil Empire now?

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration

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Trump’s derangement syndrome now completely out of self control. Like a blind Samson raging for revenge. Let’s hope the pillars of the Temple don’t smother us all

Yanis Varoufakis calls prosecution after admitting taking ecstasy 40 years ago ‘ridiculous’ Greek leftwing intellectual and former minister says his indictment is indicative of far-right turn in western politics

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The right wing seizes upon the counter productive war on drugs to bolster its conservative base. Failed Labour in Bye bye, bibbly bye byes election. Now trying to martyr Varoufakis in Greece

James Butler | Just Voting The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election with 41 per cent of the vote. Progressive...

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Penetrating review of sources and implications of the inspiring Green victory. Best (dim) prospect of a vote for justice at next GE is death bed reversion of Labour to democratic socialist principles, and some kind of alliance with Greens etc to stop Reform

Epstein, eugenics, and the far right Long after race science fell into public disgrace, Epstein was working to revive its core assumptions – and connecting biological hierarchy to far-right politics. As Dr Annabel Sowemimo uncovers...

Epstein, eugenics, and the far right
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Extraordinarily revealing article about Epstein’s funding and promotion of race ‘science’ in elite universities. A microcosm of mega wealthy obsession with their own ‘natural’ superiority and far right advocacy of eugenics

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.