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In reply to the discussion: The Brexit Rejection of Neoliberal Tyranny [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)in terms of refuting that point.
DID the neolibs have their finger in that creation pie http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1356047/Euro-federalists-financed-by-US-spy-chiefs.html
Actually, THAT point -- needless, illegal warmongering -- was just one aspect of the neoliberal agenda that has resulted in something concrete like the immigration numbers, but the vote itself was likely far more impacted by perceptions behind the islamophobia itself.
I'm inclined to think that the economy was umbrella under which all other things were considered. ANd given who's had control of the reins for so long now, all this nitpicking that excludes them and their various actions past and present like "was it predominantly just xenophobia or only that applied to Muslims, lets the fox with the feathers in their mouths completely off the hook.
Pilger is hardly the only one making this argument about the role ME, etc, interventions had
HUDSON: Its a combination. The right wing was, indeed, pushing the immigrant issue, saying wait a minute, theyre threatening our jobs. But the left wing was just as vocal, and the left wing was saying, why are these immigrants coming here? Theyre coming here because of Europes support of NATO, and NATOs war thats bombing the near East, that is destabilizing the whole Near East, and causing a flight of refugees not only from Syria but also from Ukraine. In England, many of the so-called Polish plumbers that came years ago have now gone back to Poland, because that countrys recovered.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=16612