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What a piece of shockingly sub-standard journalism from @jacobinmag - an exercise in 'redwashing' anti-immigrant politics. It shows an elementary lack of journalistic integrity, research and the responsibility to scrutinise politicians jacobinmag.com/2018/10/sahra-…
For the record, Wagenknecht has linked 'uncontrolled immigration' to terrorism. Perhaps Jacobin could have fulfilled a journalistic function and ask her about this? marx21.de/how-sahra-wage…
She formed Aufstehen after *failing to win* the Die Linke conference to her calls to cap refugee numbers - a policy that would not only violate international law but put the party to the right of Merkel. Perhaps they could have asked her about this? dw.com/en/left-party-…
At a time when there is overwhelming opposition to the politics of the AfD in every other section of society - apart from amongst their own voters - this orientation to them isn't just wrong morally it would also spell electoral oblivion for Die Linke.
The international left should be applauding Katya Kipping's and her colleagues' successful resistance to this deeply reactionary political agenda
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ON DRAFT UK-EU DEAL

Late night for me last night reading the draft deal. Here's a thread starting with the future relationship document, which in someways is the most interesting /1
The future relationship doc is actually a big win for May. Many people will - correctly - point to the fact it's vague, not a legal document, and so on. All of which is true. But it is a political doc the EU can be held to in the future negotiations /2
By pledging to end free movement and using language which *strongly implies* UK will seek some kind of membership of the single market, it promises a 'bespoke deal' and cherry picking of the single market the EU have previously ruled out /3
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Long Brexit survey from YouGov with some interesting findings. Full results well worth looking at. It confirms the now standard pattern of a consistent Remain lead but with a still stubbornly high Leave vote (53 vs 47%). However... /1

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There is a big decline in support for a 'no deal Brexit' which now stands at 27% (down from 38% in the poll from the earlier in the month) /2
This suggests the extremely negative economic implications of 'no deal' are beginning to cut through to parts of the Leave electorate /3
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So here’s my response to @AyoCaesar on #newsnight:

- I respect this position but it’s very difficult to see a scenario that the far right can’t profit from.
- So if we break these scenarios down then they all look beneficial to the far right: /1
—— (a) Soft Brexit gives them the betrayal narrative they crave. We’ve already seen an electoral bounce for UKIP over the govt’s new soft Brexit policy (at a time when Ukip is obviously making a turn to the fascist street movement). /2
—— (b) Hard Brexit offers a clear route to “no brexit” but we’d all be playing with fire if we saw it in these terms. The economic dislocation and political crisis it would ignite would be huge gift to far right.
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genuinely curious what it’s like for NYT reporters to get paid to type up Trump lies day in and day out; nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/…
that’s their job. period
keep in mind, NYT is going to type up every redundant Trump rally between now and Election Day. every dispatch will read just like the previous one, and the bulk of each piece will by politely relaying Trump lies via his quotes. #journalism
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Today I'm pulp I look at a magazine that was a trailblazer for modern photo-led #journalism: VU.
First published in Paris in 1928 VU was a magazine that put the photograph first. Over 3,000 photos were used in its first year of publication alone.
The timing was auspicious: the Leica 1 camera had been released in 1925 and the Rolleiflex would launch in 1929. High quality portable photography was making its breakthrough and VU magazine would pioneer it's journalistic use.
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But now, onto my own personal summation of this all. The @Guardian, it is THE paper and site that gives most national (UK) and international (USA, Australia, the damned world) to coverage of issues like poverty, class. It has worldclass investigative #journalism. But.....
... but I admit to being more than fully cheesed off with the Guardian myself. I was a loyal funder, around 60 quid a month, I stopped completely, because the Guardian's new policies were so idiotic and off-putting, not to mention counter-productive.
But! ....
But, bluntly, the @Guardian still is THE major newspaper in the UK, the USA or Australia, to give a very wide range of opinion from the public, & to also give reasonably trustworthy investigative #journalism.
I refuse to contribute money, but it's still very much my first go-to.
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😂 oh I can't wait for this relaunch. Gawker is the worst of the worst, dumpster trash internet journalism, and they already still exist with all their writers and bloggers under other websites. Get them all back in one place again so it's easier to laugh at please. Thanks
Previously, from Gawker: nypost.com/2016/03/09/gaw…
More in depth: nytimes.com/2016/03/10/bus…
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Lack of funds for research is the biggest problem faced by Indian universities. This is one of the major reason for the brain drain and thus students prefer foreign universities for research. Ambani entering into education field can solve these problems. #JioInstitute (Cont..)
In a huge country like India where every field requires own indigenous research, government can't fund research completely. Research is very important to develop our technology which will complete the idea of Make in India. (Cont..)
"Make in India" idea is fulfilled only if Indian technology is used in manufacturing. It is fulfilled only if every technology that we use is Indian. Lack of funds make sure that we won't have proper facilities for research which forces us to buy technology from foreign. (Cont..)
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Anti-immigrant hysteria has engulfed this nation, fueled in large part by the president's open hostility to and antipathy for immigrants.

What can be done to fight such hysteria?

The key is learn about and to stop their dehumanization. Here's how.

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Dehumanization is the process of viewing and treating members of a social group as less than human, as subhuman. Once a group has been dehumanized, it becomes too easy to inflict upon them the worst atrocities and abuses.
In fact, once a group has been thoroughly dehumanized, abuse is virtually inevitable.

Undocumented immigrants have been subject to gross dehumanization, esp. in the past several years. How? Largely through dehumanizing language and images.
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