{"id":329684,"date":"2017-10-09T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-rising-of-britains-new-politics-2\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T09:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:14:43","slug":"the-rising-of-britains-new-politics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-rising-of-britains-new-politics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rising of Britain\u2019s \u201cNew Politics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As the Tories plot to get rid of Prime Minister Theresa May, John Pilger analyses the alternative Labour Party, specifically its foreign policy, which may not be what it seems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*****<\/p>\n<p>Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance. \u00a0The world\u2019s third biggest arms manufacturer, BAe Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed a perfidious symbol of a party in which millions of Britons now invest their political hopes. Once the preserve of Tony Blair, it is led today by Jeremy Corbyn, whose career has been very different from Blair\u2019s and is rare in British establishment politics.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Labour conference, the campaigner Naomi Klein described the rise of Corbyn as \u201cpart of a global phenomenon. We saw it in Bernie Sanders\u2019 historic campaign in the US primaries, powered by millennials who know that safe centrist politics offers them no kind of safe future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, at the end of the US primary elections last year, Sanders led his followers into the arms of Hillary Clinton, a liberal warmonger from a long tradition in the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>As President Obama\u2019s Secretary of State, Clinton presided over the invasion of Libya in 2011, which led to a stampede of refugees to Europe. She gloated notoriously at the gruesome murder of Libya\u2019s president. Two years earlier, she signed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/10\/the-rising-of-britains-new-politics\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Tories plot to get rid of Prime Minister Theresa May, John Pilger analyses the alternative Labour Party, specifically its foreign policy, which may not be what it seems. ***** Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-329684","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\/329684","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}