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Numbers reveal the escalating violence and resistance in occupied Palestine, shedding light on the urgent questions of a major revolt and why Israeli attempts to crush Palestinian resistance continue to fail.

The post The Armed Revolt: Why Israel Cannot Crush the Resistance in Palestine appeared first on MintPress News.

Unfortunately, assumption uncertainty reduces the status of deductions and statistical computations to exercises in hypothetical reasoning – they provide best-case scenarios of what we could infer from specific data. Even more unfortunate, however, is that this exercise is deceptive to the extent it ignores or misrepresents available information, and makes hidden assumptions that are unsupported […]

The Israeli military recently conducted its first aerial drone strike in nearly 20 years, marking an alarming shift in state violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The post With Drone Strike, the Occupied West Bank Could Turn Into War-Ravaged Gaza appeared first on MintPress News.

In science, courage is to follow the motto of enlightenment and Kant’s dictum — Sapere Aude!  To use your understanding, have 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 […]

Lowkey catches up with Associate Editor of Electronic Intifada Asa Winstanley to discuss his new book: Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.

The post How the UK Deep State Took Down Jeremy Corbyn, with Asa Winstanley appeared first on MintPress News.

It’s over a week since the Economist put up my and Cosma Shalizi’s piece on shoggoths and machine learning, so I think it’s fair game to provide an extended remix of the argument (which also repurposes some of the longer essay that the Economist article boiled down). Our piece was inspired by a recurrent meme in […]

Southern Baptists double down on decline “No one could accuse the Baptists of excessive cheeriness,” David Siders begins in his Politico report from the Southern Baptist Convention conclave in New Orleans: “We are living in dark and perilous times in America,” read the billing for a night with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, “as our culture descends into a spiritual abyss …” It is a stark change of mood for hundreds of pastors and church members from their Trump-years triumphalism. The U.S. has been both steadily secularizing and religiously diversifying for decades. This leaves Southern Baptists, once dominant in a region of churches on every streetcorner, unsettled at their declining ability to dictate local culture. Evangelicals of whom Southern Baptists are a fraction, saw Trump, the “thrice-married former casino owner” with his “two Corinthians” pandering as an imperfect champion. At least he was pandering. “Great again” for them meant more than white dominance. He represented renewal of their religious and cultural dominance. Since then, Siders explains, all seems to have gone to Hell.

Big Finish revealed the cover art & special edition cover art for the Colin Baker-starring Doctor Who - Once and Future: "Two's Company."

Byline Times analyses the attendance rate of 12 Peers who have donated more than £1 million to the party that appointed them

Former government drugs adviser tells UK government to unblock research on psychedelics, citing “remarkable” treatment potential

The “shot heard around the world” ignited the American Revolution and led to the independence...

“Streaming” [verb / strEEm-ing]: Crossing a medium-sized body of water in short trousers to rescue one’s horse and carriage from sudden peril.

“Bop” [noun / bäp]: The sound of George Washington’s hand-crafted Masonic gavel landing on a ceremonial cornerstone.

“Cheugy” [verb / chew-ghee]: The act of using one’s wooden teeth to thoroughly masticate turtle soup.

“Taylor Swift” [noun / TAY-lor SWIH-ft]: A tradesperson who can alter silken blouses at an exceptionally quick pace.

“Bougee” [noun / BOO-jee]: The name of Thomas Jefferson’s childhood kitten.

“Clapback” [noun / klap-bAk]: An unfavorable condition for a racehorse’s spine.

“Ded” [adjective / DEH-d]: Obituary delivered via illiterate messenger.

“G.O.A.T.” [noun / GOH-t]: A delicious hearty stew.

With Europe facing a summer of heatwaves, sceptics and deniers are ramping up their dangerous disinformation

While The Lever team is on a much-needed hiatus, here’s a selection of our best recent longreads.

The daughter of a Black freedom fighter and Holocaust survivor shares her father’s deeply poignant, improbable life story

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

A psychodynamic perspective on suicide can help us all reckon more honestly with the interconnectedness of psychic pain

- by Kyle Boyd

Read at Psyche

Demonised by the political establishment for his radical, dissenting views, this 18th-century Welsh polymath deserves better

- by Huw Williams

Read at Aeon

Stephanie Aaronson, who oversees the forecast of the U.S. economy produced for the Federal Open Market Committee, discusses the importance of having diverse perspectives on policy issues.

Of all the flunkies Gov. Ron DeSantis installed across the state, the longest lasting effects will come from his total takeover of Florida’s Supreme Court.

The post DeSantis Stacked Florida’s Supreme Court With Cronies Who Wage His War on Wokeness — or Else appeared first on The Intercept.

Deep-sea mining will mean vast destruction we can’t predict – to produce minerals we don’t need, according to the CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation

X-axis: days of future stats.