In science, courage is to follow the motto of enlightenment and Kant’s dictum — Sapere Aude! To use your own understanding, having the courage to think for yourself and question ‘received opinion,’ authority, or orthodoxy. In our daily lives, courage is the capability to confront fear, as when in front of the powerful and mighty, not […]
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While the focus is on UK Government policy to deport migrants to Rwanda, Simon Israel reports on the plight of asylum seeks marooned on the British Indian Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia
Now that it’s been sold to Bayer, few talk about Monsanto anymore, but their crimes haven’t gone away. They don’t stop just because you drop the dirty name.
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The guidance says ministers must take ‘care’ and avoid announcing decisions that could influence elections – such as England’s local elections in just two weeks
Cruelty is the point again Remember André Bauer? He was the South Carolina lieutenant governor (Republican, naturally) who in 2010 compared government food assistance to the poor to feeding stray animals: “My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals,” Bauer said during a town hall meeting, as the Greenville News reported over the weekend. “You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.” Bauer was saying the quiet part out loud before MAGA made it “conservative cool.” Cutting off poor people’s food is “a perennial Republican target,” observes Politicos’ Meredith Lee Hill.
The more successful BRICS becomes the weaker Western hegemony over the South will grow. Though some Western politicians and media insist on downplaying BRICS’ role in shaping the new world order, the change seems to be real and irreversible.
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In this hour-long interview, former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb discusses radical politics, community organizing, sustainable development, climate change, racial justice, the protests in France, indigenous sovereignty, and building power to confront the ruling class.
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Kwikfit is a ubiquitous car servicing and repair company. Established in the 1970s, the company has grown significantly, with over 600 depots across the UK. But an examination of working practices and conditions within its vast array of garages reveals it’s not just vehicles that require an urgent fix. Nick joined the company in January […]
A kid texts their mother during a school lockdown.
KID: Mom, a drag queen broke into our school. I love you so much.
MOM: What!? Are you sure it’s real?
KID: Yes, we’re under lockdown now. We barricaded the door and I’m hiding under my desk. Mom, I’m so scared.
MOM: Can you call me? Are you safe?
KID: I can only text. We have to be quiet. They feed off the prepubescent voices of young white boys.
MOM: Okay, honey, stay calm. Remember what you learned in drag lockdown training. It will do whatever it can to lure you with its bronze silicone breasts and brainwash you.
KID: I can hear its stilettos clicking down the hallway. I think it’s close to our classroom…
MOM: Stay completely still, honey. Breathe. Cover your genitals.
KID: There are so many sequins! I can see them reflecting onto the walls.
Asa Winstanley joins Lowkey to discuss the ongoing protests in Israel, UK Spying on Palestinian Refugees and his new book, "Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Took Down Jeremy Corbyn."
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For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations.
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It’s not hard to see how the evolution of cooperation and the evolution of language are mutually reinforcing, writes John Mitchinson
ICC prosecutor general Karim Khan raised millions from NATO states by crafting an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin while freezing investigations into well-documented US and Israeli war crimes. Along the way, he won powerful friends in Washington, London, Kiev — and Hollywood.
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By John McEvoy and Mark Curtis / Declassified UK The U.K. government has poured over £25 million into private “counter-disinformation” organisations since January 2018 and four of these are directed by people linked to the British or U.S. foreign policy establishment. Yet, while publishing information deriving from these groups, much of it on the Ukraine war, media […]
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An examination of the economic law that says as the private sector improves productivity by destroying the planet and creating awful jobs, what's left of the public sector must do the same.
- by Ciarán O’Driscoll
- by Peli Grietzer
Peter Mertens of the Workers’ Party of Belgium spoke to Stella Assange ahead of the four year anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of Julian Assange
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British understanding of Northern Ireland generally comes in the form of a set of isolated tropes, often to do with terrorism and bloody atavistic conflict. Brexit has arguably increased awareness of the region somewhat, bringing discussions of the Irish border and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement to the fore, and the 2017 election result introduced […]
Shipping costs vary greatly across countries and industries. So surging costs likely have a greater impact on imports from distant sources and imports of large, low-value goods.
With mounting Ofcom complaints, Julian Petley looks at the 'person' behind the controversial new broadcaster and its biases toward climate change