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What would you call a "liberal" state that supports a terrorist, colonial state? Canada's Liberals Condemn Palestine Solidarity Imperialists in need, imperialists indeed. Obama Signs Trade Law protecting Israeli Squatters from Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Britain:  Shunning Israeli goods to become criminal offence for public bodies and student unions "Evidently state involvement in economic decision making is acceptable for an ostensible "free market", provided of course such involvement goes some way to shoring up British relations with a colonial, criminal entity called Israel. The latter also being an important customer for British weapons exports." — Daniel Read
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue Good, but is Pilger part of that "left" which supports Putin or refuse to include the Russian regime in the barbaric  camp? No word against other Western powers, either.
What main limitations do you see in Sanders’ campaign? "The Sanders’ campaign, of course, is easily disparaged as one-dimensional: his foreign policy positions, for example, are disappointingly unclear and in many respects little different from Clinton’s. His specific economic reforms are also less radical than they seem. Breaking up the Big Banks, for example, is the Progressivism of La Follette and George Norris (great 1930s liberal Republicans) redux; socialists would propose instead to nationalize them as public utilities. He would tax the superwealthy at the same levels as LBJ but less than Eisenhower. Moreover, he has carefully sidestepped traditional left demands for reductions in military spending and abolition of the surveillance state. And his employment strategy (the right to a decent job was the cornerstone of FDR’s program) is timid and unoriginal: all recent Democrats have routinely and without conviction advocated job creation through infrastructure investment. 
Samo Tomšič,  The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan (Verso 2015) "Building on this argument, Tomšič argues that the unconscious is not the realm of the irrational or the private, as we so often think, a place where social reality is suspended. On the contrary, it is a terrain where the political system is most effectively reproduced, a space which is territorialized and organized by social and political reality. Tomšič then shows that the idea of homology between political and libidinal economy implies that the same discursive structures operate in the subjective and social realities. The effect of this is that we are made to feel that the structure of our desires and the structure of our society mirror each other. Consequently, the grip of capitalism intensifies on an unconscious level, making capitalism seem inevitable and unavoidable. In other words, Tomšič shows that whilst capitalism appears to be the effect or our desires, we are better off seeing our desires as the
Disney ‘sanitises poverty Britain: More than 85% of public tips on benefit 'frauds' are false Meanwhile, the big thieves in the country are not only walking freely on the street, but they are also rewarded for their ongoing robbery.