FAROOKE CHOWDHURY—Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, is not ashamed for all the election bribery he allegedly happily accepted from a foreign “friend”, who was murdered later, and in this murder ploy, the French leader was an aggressive participant. A stark show of bourgeois politics with “friendship”!
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ALEX LANTIER—“The terrorist threat is even more dangerous when combined with the nuclear proliferation threat,” he said. “France supports fully the United States in its attempts to bring Pyongyang through sanctions and negotiations towards denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. As for Iran, our objective is clear: Iran shall never possess any nuclear weapons: not now, not in 5 years, not in 10 years, never.”
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RICHARD C. COOK—Nevertheless, the Anglican clergy are beholden to the British state for their salaries. Perhaps that’s one reason they are always so nice to those in charge. The British are indeed “nice” people. They enjoy life. They are “comfortable” in the world. They adore their “royals.” They understand that real democracy is rather unclean—not really for them. That’s why they still have a queen. The British are subjects, not citizens. So are the Canadians, the Australians, the New Zealanders, and many others in Commonwealth countries where the queen is the head of state.
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AIDAN O’BRIEN—The Europeans are pushing against liberalism and its neoliberal progeny. Never mind the fact that the new or alternative political parties they vote for are failing to live up to their critical manifestos. The point is that probably 50% or more of the Europeans have had enough of liberal capitalism. And this means that they have had enough of the EU. How this plays out though is anyone’s guess.
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JEFF J. BROWN—”Historically, of course, Europe cultivated, in marxist jargon, a labor aristocracy—for some of your listeners who might not know, the labor aristocracy is a section of the workers who are better off compared, not only to other workers in the nation, but to the world proletariat—and this stratum of the workers, as Marx and Lenin complained, were always ready to defer to bourgeois chauvinism and share the plunder of empire. The u.$ was like this virtually from the start, having cultivated a settler agrarian experiment, populated by petty bourgeois farmers and professionals resting on a cushion of slave labor….”