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Clinton, the Asian pivot and everything you need to know about neo-liberalism
Clinton, the Asian pivot and everything you need to know about neo-liberalism
Victor Tiffany
Syracuse Progressive Examiner
September 20, 2015
On a conference call last Sunday night about the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- an un-American, international, corporate coup des lois -- one of the speakers pointed to an article written by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entitled "America's Pacific Century." The "pivot toward Asia" Clinton was initiating is actually an increased militarization of the Pacific rim and deepening of American hegemony over Asia where China is perceived as a "threat" to American dominance the region. To best understand the status-quo candidate, Secretary Clinton, Democrats (not just Sanders' supporters) need to take the time to understand neo-liberalism and its pernicious hold on the world economy.
... From President Clinton forward, the Democratic Party has embraced neo-liberalism and essentially "gone to bed" with Wall Street financiers. They are the leading figures of our world order and the top donors to Secretary Clinton.
...
Bernie Sanders has not extensively addressed neo-liberalism, but his website has an article entitled "Hurricane Katrina and Bernie Sanders: From Neoliberal Disaster to ‘Political Revolution.’" Authors Adolph Reed, Michael Francis and Steve Striffler write, "Beneath the neoliberal triumphalism that has largely hijacked New Orleanians’ rightful pause to reflect on that literal cataclysm...to register its continuing impact, and to celebrate actual people’s resilience, lie those realities of deepening inequality and a political regime organized around reproducing it." Privitization of public services is part of the neo-liberal agenda, and increased inequality is the upshot of neo-liberalism, a political philosophy that puts profits before people, the environment and human survival as Kirk also explains in his pamphlet.
Senator Sanders' political revolution aims to offer Americans an alternative to neo-liberalism. Reed, Francis and Striffler conclude, "The great promise of the Sanders campaign is that it not only presents such an alternative (to neo-liberalism) but also provides a vehicle for building the movement necessary to make it reality." That movement is not just Sanders' campaign but many organizations working to oppose the TPP. No progressive organization in the U.S. supports the TPP for a wide variety of reasons, not least is the bold power grab it would be for transnational corporations imposing their will and usurping power from national, state and local legislatures.
In this election, Sanders' democratic socialism is the only electable alternative available to the neo-liberalism that has been embraced by the Democratic and Republican political duopoly. His supporters would do well with Democratic voters to figuratively hang neo-liberalism and the TPP around Secretary Clinton's neck like a lead life "saver" at every opportunity. Should he decide to run for President, the same holds for Vice-President Biden as well.
http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-the-asian-pivot-and-everything-you-need-to-know-about-neo-liberalism
Victor Tiffany
Syracuse Progressive Examiner
September 20, 2015
On a conference call last Sunday night about the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- an un-American, international, corporate coup des lois -- one of the speakers pointed to an article written by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entitled "America's Pacific Century." The "pivot toward Asia" Clinton was initiating is actually an increased militarization of the Pacific rim and deepening of American hegemony over Asia where China is perceived as a "threat" to American dominance the region. To best understand the status-quo candidate, Secretary Clinton, Democrats (not just Sanders' supporters) need to take the time to understand neo-liberalism and its pernicious hold on the world economy.
... From President Clinton forward, the Democratic Party has embraced neo-liberalism and essentially "gone to bed" with Wall Street financiers. They are the leading figures of our world order and the top donors to Secretary Clinton.
...
Bernie Sanders has not extensively addressed neo-liberalism, but his website has an article entitled "Hurricane Katrina and Bernie Sanders: From Neoliberal Disaster to ‘Political Revolution.’" Authors Adolph Reed, Michael Francis and Steve Striffler write, "Beneath the neoliberal triumphalism that has largely hijacked New Orleanians’ rightful pause to reflect on that literal cataclysm...to register its continuing impact, and to celebrate actual people’s resilience, lie those realities of deepening inequality and a political regime organized around reproducing it." Privitization of public services is part of the neo-liberal agenda, and increased inequality is the upshot of neo-liberalism, a political philosophy that puts profits before people, the environment and human survival as Kirk also explains in his pamphlet.
Senator Sanders' political revolution aims to offer Americans an alternative to neo-liberalism. Reed, Francis and Striffler conclude, "The great promise of the Sanders campaign is that it not only presents such an alternative (to neo-liberalism) but also provides a vehicle for building the movement necessary to make it reality." That movement is not just Sanders' campaign but many organizations working to oppose the TPP. No progressive organization in the U.S. supports the TPP for a wide variety of reasons, not least is the bold power grab it would be for transnational corporations imposing their will and usurping power from national, state and local legislatures.
In this election, Sanders' democratic socialism is the only electable alternative available to the neo-liberalism that has been embraced by the Democratic and Republican political duopoly. His supporters would do well with Democratic voters to figuratively hang neo-liberalism and the TPP around Secretary Clinton's neck like a lead life "saver" at every opportunity. Should he decide to run for President, the same holds for Vice-President Biden as well.
http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-the-asian-pivot-and-everything-you-need-to-know-about-neo-liberalism
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