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3: Jeremy Corbyn: most Labour MPs should not fear deselection
2: A Famous Palestinian Activist Could Be Sent to Israel Prison for His Years of Nonviolent Protest
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As older generations struggle to deal with the untarnished manner in which younger generations can use social media to tell them how much they hate them, larger fracture lines are starting to emerge between Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials.
There have been remarkable juxtapositions last week in NZ that seem to show the two worlds we have split into, one where the reality of life is grim and one where privilege blinds us to that grim reality.
National voters know the system they are profiting from is hurting their fellow citizens, they just don’t care. This is what 30 years of neoliberalism has produced. There’s a dark streak of anti-intellectualism in NZ, a negative egalitarianism, that embraces Keys nonchalant ignorance with the passion of a junkie to their dealer.
…Talley’s claims this over the top reaction was because they are so focused on safety which is hilarious when you consider they had no problem sending workers into fishing ships to get poisoned or their lax attitude towards decapitation.
Chelsea Manning is a hero. She exposed the truth of what the US Military were really doing in Iraq and their war crimes remain a stain alongside so many other stains caused by America’s corporate wars.
UP UNTIL TUESDAY of last week I’d always thought of The Spinoff and Generation Zero as the good guys. A wee bit hipsterish perhaps, in the case of the former; a little hard to distinguish from the Green Party in the latter – but these were minor quibbles. Overall, both organisations came across as fresh, creative, and definitely on the side of the progressive angels.
Not anymore.
Ben Peterson is a Unite Union Organiser and is TDBs correspondent in Britain covering the fight and fallout of the British Labour Party Leadership contest.