{"id":5731,"date":"2022-10-27T21:17:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2023-02-09T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T09:20:35","slug":"cheerleaders-us-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2022-10-27\/cheerleaders-us-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"How the left became cheerleaders for US imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Figureheads like the Guardian\u2019s George Monbiot have wrecked the left\u2019s ability to think critically, encouraging an analysis of power politics more suited to the playground<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mint Press – 26 October 2022<\/p>\n

One of the biggest problems for the left, as it confronts what seems like humanity\u2019s ever-more precarious relationship with the planet \u2013 from the climate emergency to a potential nuclear exchange \u2013 is that siren voices keeping luring it towards the rocks of political confusion and self-harm.<\/span><\/p>\n

And one of the loudest sirens on the British left is the environmental activist <\/span>George Monbiot<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Monbiot has carved out for himself a figurehead role on the mainstream British left because he is the only big-picture thinker allowed a regular platform in the establishment media: in his case, the liberal <\/span>Guardian<\/span><\/i> newspaper. It is a spot he covets and one that seems to have come with a big price tag: he is allowed to criticize the corporate elite\u2019s capture of British domestic politics \u2013 he occasionally concedes that our political life has been stripped of all democratic content \u2013 but only, it seems, because he has become ever less willing to extend that same critique to British foreign policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The U.K. is a "democracy in name only," says The Guardian's @GeorgeMonbiot<\/a> on the ongoing political crises in Britain. pic.twitter.com\/8Zi3I0Xfj3<\/a><\/p>\n

— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) October 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n