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Part 8 - Terrorism and Foreign Policy Corbyn rightly pointed out that the plague of terrorism has been spread by imperialist interventions. He said Britain must “ put our values of peace and cooperation into foreign policy ”. He said a Labour government would oppose entirely the Saudi war against Yemen, and condemn Aung San Suu Kyi’s government’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya muslims. Again, this is all correct. But how do we successfully implement this? Corbyn suggested appealing to the UN to organise conflict resolution. But the UN is completely impotent, depending as it does for all its power on the imperialist powers of the world. When the US wanted to invade Iraq, it ignored the UN and the UN could do nothing. And Saudi Arabia currently chairs the UN Human Rights Council, and in April of this year the UN elected Saudi Arabia to serve on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, a body “ dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment

Millions of truck drivers around the world are considered the next "species for extinction" from the working class, as many predict their replacement by trucks without drivers. Once again, however, the enemy is not among the machines. globinfo freexchange Forty years will be passed in a few months since the release of "Convoy" by Sam Peckinpah - one of the few productions that had transferred to the big screen not the content of a book, but that of a song. Bill Fries' same title "Convoy", tells the story about a rebellion of a group of truck drivers crossing the US from the West to the East Coast without stopping at police and national guard controls. Despite the fact that the song and the film are two digestible products of the new American Country and that of anti-Westerns school in which Sam Peckinpah had specialized, they manage to capture the effects of the first major crisis of the capitalist system after WWII

Εκατομμύρια οδηγοί νταλίκας σε όλο τον κόσμο θεωρούνται το επόμενο «είδος προς εξαφάνιση» της εργατικής τάξης, καθώς αρκετοί προβλέπουν την αντικατάστασή τους από φορτηγά χωρίς οδηγούς. Ακόμη μια φορά, όμως, ο εχθρός δεν βρίσκεται στις μηχανές. globinfo freexchange Σαράντα χρόνια συμπληρώνονται σε λίγους μήνες από την κυκλοφορία της ταινίας «Κονβόι» του Σαμ Πέκινπα – μία από τις ελάχιστες παραγωγές που μεταφέρουν στη μεγάλη οθόνη όχι το περιεχόμενο ενός βιβλίου αλλά ενός τραγουδιού. Το ομότιτλο «Convoy», του Bill Fries, διηγείται την «εξέγερση» μιας ομάδας οδηγών νταλίκας, οι οποίοι διασχίζουν τις ΗΠΑ, από τη Δυτική έως την Ανατολική Ακτή, χωρίς να σταματήσουν σε ελέγχους και μπλόκα της αστυνομίας και της εθνοφρουράς. Παρά το γεγονός ότι το τραγούδι και η ταινία αποτελούν δυο εύπεπτα προϊόντα της νέας αμερικανικής κάντρι και της σχολής των αντι-ουέστερν, στην οποία ειδικεύεται ο Σαμ Πέκινπα, καταφέρνουν να αποτυπώσουν τις επιπτώσεις της πρώτης μεγάλης κρί

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange posted a sardonic ‘thank you’ note addressing US authorities who forced the whistleblowing website into investing in Bitcoin in 2010. The cryptocurrency has seen a 50,000 percent bump in value in the interim. “ My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, Payal, AmEx, Mooneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin -- with > 50000% return, ” Assange tweeted. For context, Bitcoin reached highs of up to $5,746.51 this week in yet another unprecedented surge in value, The Coin Telegraph reports. Following the release of sensitive documents regarding US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, sanctions were imposed against WikiLeaks, which severely curtailed funding and forced the website to seek alternative methods of funding. In his tweet, Assange called out current and

The US will keep the nuclear deal with Iran but wants to weigh up a “proportionate” response, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said on Sunday. “ I think right now, you’re going to see us stay in the deal, ” she told NBC’s Meet the Press. “ Because what our hope is that we can improve the situation. And that’s the goal. ” Haley added that the Trump administration’s attitude to the Iran deal was being shaped by the ongoing situation on the Korean Peninsula, where North Korea claims to have successfully tested nuclear weapons, alarming Washington and its allies. “ What we’re saying now with Iran is don’t let it become the next North Korea. ” https://www.rt.com/newsline/406762-us-stay-iran-nuclear-deal-haley/