Kannan Srinivasan in New York

Fascism might be better than the Left, suggests the New York Times:  " Some voters consider France Unbowed, which has members who have been accused of antisemitism, to be at least as dangerous as the far right.”  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/world/europe/france-election-new-popular-front-far-right.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare Given the unsubstantiated claims of Melenchon's anti-Semitism which match those that removed Corbyn, one might wonder about the dogwhistle of "Soros & rootless people without culture" (the traditional anti-Semitic reference to the Jewish people):  https://youtu.be/o-3-lN3bA9w?si=G3zQLvJUm35X4s8a Why does this not trouble the Western leaders-- https://www.youtube.com/live/avIs4YrtM00?si=fWZQmC73J5rWCwYR https://www.governo.it/en/articolo/g7-summit-president-meloni-meets-president-biden-united-states/25999 https://youtu.be/AYz88B_N10U?si=WUCbohnhiy_xE0nW --- who embrace Italy’s Meloni today? Why  isn’t she

  The Starmer government cannot do very much.  It wont tax, it can't borrow much; its election victory has been crafted on the recent fraud of misrepresenting Corbyn’ s sympathy for the Palestinians as anti-Semitism, & concealing the fact that the Labour defeat of 2019 was the outcome of Starmer’s demand not Corbyn’s for a fresh referendum on Brexit; which of course came on top of the fraud of Brexit. Brexit followed the false promises of trickle-down growth that have distracted Britain for over four decades since Mrs Thatcher first instituted austerity and an upward redistribution of wealth in order to financialise the UK economy, unlocking the opportunities afforded by the Eurodollar market & Britain’s role as money-launderer to the world. When Starmer can no longer blame Corbyn, Sunak & other Conservatives for the UK’s economy, he will have to acknowledge reality. Which is as follows: that the UK’s role as money-launderer to the world is critical to its balance of