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Ukraine guilty of human rights violations in trade union massacre, top European court finds

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Tue, 25/03/2025 - 02:45

The court condemned Ukrainian authorities for failing to prevent a fiery 2014 massacre in which dozens of anti-Nazi activists were burned alive – but the judges’ political bias meant victims were implicitly blamed for their fate, and their families received a paltry 15,000 euro payout. The European Court of Human Rights has found the Ukrainian government guilty of committing human rights violations during the May 2, 2014 Odessa massacre, in which dozens of Russian-speaking demonstrators were forced into the city’s […]

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My Mother-in-Law Wouldn’t Complain If She Didn’t Get Her Social Security Check, Because She Would Be Dead

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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 23:00

" Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick suggested this week that only ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missing a monthly Social Security check, and that most people wouldn’t mind if the government simply skipped a payment. — Axios

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People are overreacting that the Trump administration’s planned overhauls of the Social Security Administration could lead to delayed or missed Social Security payments and cause senior citizens hardship. Take my ninety-four-year-old mother-in-law, Barbara—if her check didn’t come as scheduled, she wouldn’t even complain—because she would soon be dead.

Exclusive: As Trump Threatens to Deport Him, Momodou Taal Says It's "Time to Escalate for Palestine"

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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 21:00

A Cornell student suing the Trump administration over free speech — and now facing deportation threats — shares his story on The Intercept Briefing.

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Cut Up: The Radical Collage of Linder Sterling

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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 12:48

Wildly overdue, Danger Came Smiling, the first London retrospective of artist and musician Linder, places her in two significant contexts. The first is Manchester in the late 1970s, where Linder made her name as the singer in Ludus (whose second album titles this exhibition), establishing herself as a distinctive voice in a national post-punk scene […]

A five-minute scroll

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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 11:58
ABC’s Jane Norman is called out for repeating Coalition talking points with Jim Chalmers. Overnight reports claim Israel has killed senior Hamas official Salah al-Bardawil and his family. Former First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, calls on the international community to realise Israel is out of control, while the Arab League calls on nations to Continue reading »

Trump Rages to Snuff Out Democracy’s Candle

https://tomdispatch.com/trump-rages-to-snuff-out-democracys-candle/
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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 08:32

Allow me to stipulate that I do not wish to die. In fact, had anyone consulted me about the construction of the universe, I would have made my views on the subject quite clear: mortality is a terrible idea. I’m opposed to it in general. (In wiser moments, I know that this is silly and that all life feeds on life. There is no life without the death of other beings, indeed, no planets without the death of stars.) Nonetheless, I’m also opposed to mortality on a personal level. I get too much pleasure out of being alive to want to give it up. And I’m curious enough that I don’t want to die before I learn how it all... Read more

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A moral precipice challenge – Vote for humanity

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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 04:59
Response to the latest Israeli/US slaughter in Gaza shows the world’s citizens looking into a moral precipice. How will they act? Will they ponder the principles of humanitarian law let alone ideals of a common humanity? Can there exist any citizens who support Israeli/US brutalities and the cowardly complicity of Western governments, including Australia’s? If Continue reading »

Active Management – Rethinking our approach to forest stewardship

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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 04:56
Our recent research raises an important and challenging question: Are our well-intentioned management interventions like thinning in high conservation value forests truly serving nature, or are they inadvertently accelerating the degradation of these critical ecosystems? These interventions are part of what has been termed Active Management and they include thinning, post-disturbance salvage logging, prescribed burning, Continue reading »

Dutton blames renewables for rising power prices, but bills would be much higher without them

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Mon, 24/03/2025 - 04:55
Australia’s shift to wind, solar and battery storage has shielded households and businesses from much higher power bills than they would otherwise be paying, a new report has found, debunking Peter Dutton’s constantly repeated claim that renewables are to blame for rising electricity prices. The report, released by the Clean Energy Investor Group on Wednesday, Continue reading »