A quote from the above...."our enemies come in a private jet...not a boat"
You can drop the mic on that one.
The man in the video is Joe Glenton.
We do a short investigation following the model of the user Daze, who looks at many forum threads and does investigations of the type "see more what he is associated with (this person, this media, this website), look at what else he supports", finding that they are related to JEW ZIO ISRAEL!
British politicians increasingly seek to silence criticism of wars abroad by emphasizing the need to “respect our boys.” But, veteran Joe Glenton tells Jacobin, many recruits who’ve seen the British army from the inside aren’t happy about being used to launder its image.
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Glenton spoke to Jacobin’s David Broder about the rise of nationalist pageantry around veterans, ex-military personnel’s identification with the army as an institution, and soldiers’ historical role in the wider working-class movement.
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I’d suggest many veterans have no real politics at all. Anecdotally, they probably have a touch of the kind of ex-military sense of entitlement we see among Blazers but would find a lot of the super far-right stuff repulsive and — this is important for military people — attention-seeking. This also goes for the cosmic anti-vaxxer cohort of ex-forces people, who have increased in number.
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Middleton is a good example of the Live, Laugh, Love, KILL influencer. A boy soldier, brutalized by bullying NCOs (non-commissioned officers), ends up in the Special Forces and goes on to become a toxic positivity snake oil salesman with a global following. And all the time he is trying to interpret the world through this useless lens — the lens of the military hard man — and being “canceled” (at least, in his mind) for saying poorly thought-out things about BLM, about powering through COVID-19 as an act of sheer Nietzschean will, and so on.
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about
Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.
Just a small jacobin look:
For years, the far right has benefited from a growing rot in British politics, as politicians and the media promote Islamophobia. Now the establishment refuses to confront these riots for what they are: domestic terrorism by white supremacists.
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08.08.2024
For years, the far right has benefited from a growing rot in British politics, as politicians and the media promote Islamophobia. Now the establishment refuses to confront these riots for what they are: domestic terrorism by white supremacists.
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Over the past three years, a surge of Islamophobia, fueled by right-wing station GB News, has exposed the inadequacy of current regulations in curbing the influence of certain journalists who incite violence. GB News has transformed into a hub for far-right trolls, working to legitimize their rhetoric and serving as a nexus for hate speech, conspiracy theories, and the promotion of far-right ideas. GB News presenter and conspiracy theorist Neil Oliver has even argued that the riots are being “orchestrated” as part of a global elite conspiracy to impose Digital ID. Broadcasters’ regulator Ofcom has been conspicuously silent — underscoring the dangers in the current media environment.
For the last week, Britain has witnessed a horrifying wave of racist violence targeting Muslims and organized by far-right activists. The violent fascist gangs are feeding off the legitimization of racist ideas by Britain’s mainstream parties and media.
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For the last week, Britain has witnessed a horrifying wave of racist violence targeting Muslims and organized by far-right activists. The violent fascist gangs are feeding off the legitimization of racist ideas by Britain’s mainstream parties and media.
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News for and by the people of Portsmouth
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... Have you noticed how nowadays every politician likes to have a photo op next to squaddies? Not that that necessarily equates to genuine support for ‘the lads’, as it were.
We are now 10 years plus into this propaganda campaign which was ramped up when COVID-19 came. The military’s involvement in the crisis has been minor, but I’ve done research with Matt Kennard of Declassified that shows how the armed forces are exploiting COVID to solve a recruitment crisis. They’ve been quite successful on social media with hashtags like #InThisTogether to conflate COVID with military duty.
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Glenton is a member of the
Stop the War Coalition.
During the Israel–Gaza war, StWC was one of the organisers of a series of demonstrations, jointly with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Palestinian Forum in Britain and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, including on 11 November, when the demonstration was opposed by far right counter-protestors.
Little:
Lindsey German: The hateful propaganda against Muslims used to justify the failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is...
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From Middle East escalation to NATO’s Russia proxy war, we face the consequences of decades of destructive...
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Prof Paul Rogers: It is ironic that the recent NATO summit was dominated by the conflict in Ukraine just as a belt...
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Underlying this is the increasingly dominant view that global climate breakdown and the many consequences of that evolving catastrophe, especially for poorer people, are a far greater challenge than the war in Ukraine.
It is ironic that NATO has completed a summit that was dominated by the conflict in Ukraine just as a belt of countries from Spain through to Turkey was experiencing extreme temperature surges as the Cerberus anticyclone weather system began to take hold. Italy, France, Spain, Croatia, Greece and Turkey are all expected to hit temperatures above 40°C, and Sardinia and Sicily may get to 48°C, potentially reaching the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe according to European Space Agency predictions.
Across the NATO member states, the connection is simply not made. NATO has been an alliance dedicated to military protection for well over 70 years, but it is a military alliance unsuited to meeting the world’s greatest security challenge: climate breakdown. It is a telling example of the saying: “If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
The Southern Oscillation climate cycle is entering an El Niňo phase, which will combine with existing global heating to give years of seriously extreme weather extending through the mid and late 2020s. Indeed, the recent US/Mexican heat dome, eastern Canada wildfires, the Cerberus weather system across southern Europe and the severe floods in India are all early warnings of the far greater problems that will ensue without immediate and radical decarbonisation.
That might just lead to a badly needed change in our priorities. Spending billions on the military may make for high profitability but is entirely missing the point when it comes to the greatest security challenge facing the entire world.
Source: OpenDemocracy
The founders of the website have been involved with established media and political activism. The platform has been funded by grants from organisations such as Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Open Society Foundations [Soros], the Ford Foundation, and Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust....
Let's just look at what the Sorosoids have been saying lately...
As Islamophobic and racist violence grip the UK, we look at the modern far right’s beliefs and racist aims
6 August 2024
Fascist riots have sparked calls for increased policing, but our oppressors will not be the ones to keep us safe
7 August 2024
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Taking back ‘safety’
The situation is urgent: fascists have already successfully destroyed many community spaces and harmed our people, and more riots are planned. These have been dark days, but there have been some small reasons to take heart. We have seen places where fascist attacks have been thwarted when they have been outnumbered by anti-fascists, and witnessed our communities coming out to defend themselves rather than retreating.
These incidents give us hope that we can fight this not through increased policing, but through creating alternative infrastructure to support our communities. We need to work alongside and support those most directly targeted by these fascist attacks: migrants, asylum seekers, Muslims and racialised communities – particularly those living outside the heartlands and metropoles.
This is the time to utilise our pre-existing networks. The large networks of mobilisation and channels of communications we have built up in our campaigns against Israel’s genocide can become the bases of confronting fascism going forward, as can our anti-raids groups, Copwatch and tenants union networks. These can be places of solidarity and support, as well as our eyes on the ground against any local fascist movements.
We must also be prepared for police repression, including efforts to criminalise self-defence, or equate it to far-right violence. This includes equipping our communities with rights training for counter-demonstrations, as well as staying coordinated with groups that can provide legal and arrestee support if required.
The scale and speed of the far-right mobilisations of the last week have been shocking. But we should not forget how quickly the forces of progress have been able to claim the streets in truly mass numbers – for Black Lives Matter in 2020, for Palestine since October 2023 – and the layers of society we have managed to bring along in the process.
Our test now will be in our ability to consolidate those, and cohere an organised, direct response to paralyse and send Britain's far-right into retreat – and ultimately, defeat."
UK’s first professor of Black studies, Kehinde Andrews, on what’s wrong with the conversation around racist riots
Awesome. Let's go back to Stop War.
Sweta Choudhury: Net zero targets can only be achieved by decarbonising the military The climate crisis is at...
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The climate crisis is at a tipping point and the impact of military emissions on the environment can no longer be ignored.
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War torn countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia have been some of the hardest hit and are in the UN’s list of most vulnerable countries to climate change. Ravaged by environmental degradation caused by war and the failure to secure legislation to address the impacts of climate change, these vulnerable countries are facing further economic and social insecurities which will have far reaching consequences for peace and stability in those regions. The impact of climate change is however not just restricted to these countries. Soaring temperatures, frequent and intense drought as well as floods, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and warming oceans are wreaking havoc across the globe.
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At the launch of the IPCC report last year, UN Secretary General António Guterres rightly accused government leaders of lying.."
By the time Australia gets its first nuclear-powered submarines, ecological collapse will already have reshaped...
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BY THE TIME AUSTRALIA GETS ITS FIRST NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINES, ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE WILL ALREADY HAVE RESHAPED WORLD POLITICS
27 Mar 2023
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We know, with a level approaching certainty, that climate change is coming. So how else can we think about Australian’s unprecedented new arms expenditure other than as an awful crime against the future?
Source: The Guardian
The uncomfortable truth is that there is no way of ensuring that our planet remains habitable in the long term...
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Climate change can teach us a critical lesson about security. Carbon emissions do not recognise borders. It is not possible for any nation to shield itself from the effects of climate change using tanks or fighter jets. The only way to tackle the climate emergency is through global cooperation. Demilitarisation and peace are the best and perhaps the only ways to ensure that humanity has the capacity and resilience to respond to this crisis.
Only if the world’s leaders recognise that uniting to confront the threat of global heating is more important than any imperialist strategy or narrow economic interest, may we have a chance to avoid climate catastrophe. A secure nation in the end depends on a secure planet.
Source:
Al-Jazeera
During late April and early May, South Asia experienced the terrible impacts of global warming.
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by Murad Qureshi
During late April and early May, South Asia experienced the terrible impacts of global warming...
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Murad Qureshi is a former member of the London Assembly and a former chair of the Stop the War Coalition.
This article was produced by Globetrotter.
I go to globetrotter and watch:
Sex Workers in Chile Continue to Face the Consequences of COVID-19 Without Government Assistance
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One of the strategies to continue working during the Covid-19 pandemic was the leap to virtuality. “As everything evolves, so does sex work,” Herminda tells me. The new generations play a fundamental role in this evolution. The range of women in sex work has expanded to include, for example, university students.."
Issues of war and militarism featured strongly in the protests and discussions taking place outside the COP...
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All this appears to be part of a wider shift in which the climate moving is coming to terms with the need for structural, society-wide change to deal with the dangers ahead. The most popular slogans amongst activists were
‘climate justice equals social justice’ and
‘system change not climate change’. Connections are being made, a wider picture of society is being developed, and campaigning issues are being integrated. As over one hundred thousand people marched for real action it was on the streets and the halls outside the COP conference that some real hope was generated.
We are at a tipping point of the climate crisis and can no longer overlook the impact of military activities on the...
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WE ARE AT A TIPPING POINT OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND CAN NO LONGER OVERLOOK THE IMPACT OF MILITARY ACTIVITIES ON THE PLANET
Britain’s government is offering healthcare workers a 1% pay rise as its military spending overtakes Russia to...
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12 Mar 2021
Britain faces strike action from exhausted healthcare workers angry at a “pitiful” 1% pay rise despite winning praise for treating thousands of coronavirus patients.
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Pandemics are among the top threats to UK national security, with 140,000 Britons dying with Covid-19 so far. That’s three-and-a-half times as many people as were killed by German bombs in the Blitz of World War 2..."
Maddalena Dunscombe talks to student Stop the War organiser Jamal Elaheebocus Maddalena Dunscombe & Jamal...
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MADDALENA DUNSCOMBE TALKS TO STUDENT STOP THE WAR ORGANISER JAMAL ELAHEEBOCUS
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What work has StW Students been focusing on in the past year? And what kind of work will you be planning for 2021?
Obviously at the start of the pandemic we had to switch to online campaigning and we held several successful online meetings on Coronavirus, War and Sanctions, the Julian Assange case and War and the Climate Crisis.
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The world is currently facing so many crises. What anti-war topics do you and other StW students tend to prioritise and why?
It’s often difficult to choose which topic to focus on because of the scale of imperialism and the number of crises we face.
I think the topics we tend to focus on are the ones which have broader links not only to the anti-war movement but other movements which students are involved in.
The War and Climate Crisis meeting was aimed at bringing together two causes which are actually closely linked and tying in anti-war campaigning with the incredible work student activists have been doing around climate change.
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In Palestine, classrooms are not immune from the violence caused by the occupation Tala Shurrab All around...
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All around the world, teachers, children, and families are making incredible efforts to adapt to the conditions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, keeping up invaluable education while also caring for physical and mental health.
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The government, the security services and the police have shown they cannot be trusted Terina Hine The Spy...
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From its treatment of XR activists to its attempts to prevent Black Lives Matter protestors in the summer, we know the government is keen to suppress public demonstrations. The government, the security services and the police have shown they cannot be trusted.
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Johnson may well have misjudged the public mood but it’s up to us to raise our voices to let him know it...
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The mammoth £16.5 billion increase ensures Britain’s position as Europe’s biggest military spender at a time when it has the highest Coronavirus death toll on the continent, in part due to his government’s botched response.
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Petition – #HealthcareNotWarfare: No Increase in Military Spending
“In the face of the greatest crisis since the Second World War, Boris Johnson has chosen to prioritise military spending over the biggest threat to safety and security for people in Britain right now, which is undoubtedly COVID-19.
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Only weeks after refusing to give the poorest children free school meals the government has found the money to...
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His claim that ‘defence of the realm’ must be prioritised for spending is typical Johnson hyperbole given that the biggest threat to security and safety for people in Britain right now is Covid-19. A threat has been greatly exacerbated by the repeated failings of his government in dealing with the crisis, meaning that the figures for deaths and infections are among the worst in Europe.
Joshua Stein reveals how defence contractors are booming while the rest of the British economy suffers from the...
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The Ministry of Defence has forked out hundreds of millions of pounds to its favoured clients in 2020, in the face of the economic ruin caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Byline Times investigation has revealed multi-million-pound contracts signed by the MoD surged by more than £30 million between April and July 2020, despite the economic toll of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Quote from the above (I stopped it at the appropriate place, 6:52):
"... The fascists have always been conspirators. And one recent expression of what I often see, for example in veterans' forums, is the replacement theory, that people will be replaced, which is this kind of sacrifice, fantasy. These must be marginal theories held on to by a couple of cranky weirdos..."
.. But, Joe continues, there are big figures who seem to have sympathy for these theories. Like Musk. But, of course, the anti-conspirator, the supporter of the Palestinian resistance, the anti-anti-vaxxer, the left-wing shit Joe Glenton, does not say a word about why the right-wing, pro-Israel and Trump shilling - Musk is sinisterly dangerous. Left-wing shit Joe just instills hatred and fear of "far-right conspiracy theorists", but the worst he instills: "Completely exclude from your menu for reflection the craziest conspiracy theories that all the great powers and players together are trying to drive us into some kind of 'dystopia'"
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