{"id":253479,"date":"2016-07-02T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-silence-of-the-left-brexit-euro-austerity-and-the-t-tip\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T12:26:39","slug":"the-silence-of-the-left-brexit-euro-austerity-and-the-t-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-silence-of-the-left-brexit-euro-austerity-and-the-t-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of the Left: Brexit, Euro-Austerity and the T-TIP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The media in the United States have treated the British vote against remaining in the European Union (EU) as if it is populist \u201cTrumpism,\u201d an inarticulate right-wing vote out of ignorance at being left behind by the neoliberal economic growth policy. The fact that Donald Trump happened to be in Scotland to promote his golf course helped frame the U.S. story that depicts the Brexit vote as a \u201cTrump vs. Hillary\u201d psychodrama \u2013 populist anger and resentment vs. intelligent policy.<\/p>\n

What is left out of this picture is that there is<\/em> a sound logic to oppose membership in the EU. It is Nigel Farage\u2019s slogan, \u201cTake Back Control.\u201d<\/p>\n

The question is, from whom? Not only from \u201cbureaucrats,\u201d but from the pro-bank, anti-labor rules written into the eurozone\u2019s Lisbon and Maastricht treaties.<\/p>\n

The British tabloids opposed EU membership by depicting unelected Brussels bureaucrats as making laws binding on Britain. The argument was largely a nationalistic plea for \u201cBritish laws to help the British people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real problem is not merely that bureaucrats are making the laws, but the kind o<\/em>f laws they are making: pro-bank, anti-labor austerity. Tax and public spending policy has been taken out of the hands of national governments and turned over to the banking centers. They insist on austerity and scaling back pensions and social spending programs.<\/p>\n

The Maastricht and Lisbon treaties \u2013 along with the German constitution \u2013deprive the \"2KillingTheHost_Cover_rule\"eurozone of having a central…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The media in the United States have treated the British vote against remaining in the European Union (EU) as if it is populist \u201cTrumpism,\u201d an inarticulate right-wing vote out of ignorance at being left behind by the neoliberal economic growth policy. The fact that Donald Trump happened to be in Scotland to promote his golf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}