THE RISING OF BRITAIN’S ‘NEW POLITICS’ (Reposted)

JOHN PILGER—Will this cease under a Corbyn government? The preferred model – Robin Cook’s “ethical foreign policy” – is revealing.  Like Jeremy Corbyn, Cook made his name as a backbencher and critic of the arms trade. “Wherever weapons are sold,” wrote Cook, “there is a tacit conspiracy to conceal the reality of war” and “it is a truism that every war for the past two decades has been fought by poor countries with weapons supplied by rich countries”.