By every journalistic standard, the extensive international coverage given to Hersh’s story should have made it big news in the US.
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Dee Howard’s husband Mike died in 2021 while suspended by Labour for supporting Palestinian rights, without even receiving an acknowledgment of his appeal In 2020, not long after Keir Starmer conned his way into the Labour leadership and began his purge of the left – and especially left-wing Jews who support Palestinian human rights – […]
I was asked to contribute to an Italian online publication‘s tribute to John Kenneth Galbraith, by answering some questions about the relevance of his major work The New Industrial State (Galbraith and Galbraith 1967) six decades later. These were my responses. About sixty years later, how relevant and actual is the vision of the American … Continue reading "How does JK Galbraith’s The New Industrial Estate hold up after 6 decades?"
The wingnuts aren’t hearing anything about the Dominion lawsuit revelations — not even from Fox’s rivals: Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, have avoided the story. Newsmax and One America News, Fox’s rivals on the right, have steered clear, too. So have a constellation of right-wing websites and podcasts. Over the past two weeks, legal filings containing private messages and testimony from Fox hosts and executives revealed that many of them had serious doubts that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election through widespread voter fraud, even as those claims were made repeatedly on Fox’s shows. The revelations, made public in a defamation lawsuit against Fox brought by Dominion Voting Systems, have generated headlines around the world. But in the conservative media world? Mostly crickets. On 26 of the most popular conservative television news networks, radio shows, podcasts and websites, only four — National Review, Townhall, The Federalist and Breitbart News — have mentioned the private messages from Fox News hosts that disparaged election fraud claims since Feb.
We are losing trees and insects at alarming rates and Australia’s land and sea temperatures continue to rise. But does too much bad news create ‘Doom Loops’? How to lose 15 billion trees On February 23rd, David Lindenmayer, one of Australia’s many excellent ecologists who continue to highlight in the public domain the multiple threats Continue reading »
Will Australian athletes face a similar ban on participation in the Olympics for their government’s wars of aggression? Anthony Albanese’s government is violating the Olympic Charter by supporting bans on Russian and Belarusian athletes attending the Paris games in 2024. Since 2015, the Olympic Charter’s Article Six states, The Olympic Games are competitions between athletes in individual Continue reading »
What appears to be absent from the politicians and public servants appearing in the Robodebt Royal Commission is an understanding that it was a moral failure – a sin. Finding the sinners to punish in atonement might make us feel better for a moment, but it might not fix the sin. One of the recurring Continue reading »
The Brexit saga has played itself to death with much relief all round except perhaps at Britain’s political margins. The just agreed ‘Windsor Framework’ resolving the remaining issues between the UK and the EU following Brexit provides a real opportunity to restore something of normality in the European space. A transcending factor driving this change Continue reading »
Recent Chinese Government peace proposals offer new hope for political settlement of the Ukraine crisis. The tragic year-long war in Ukraine has already transformed the world’s geopolitical landscape. Historic global power shifts towards the Eurasian heartland, centred on China, are accelerating. China and Russia have drawn together in a strong ‘no limits’ partnership, that is Continue reading »
The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defence pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Western leaders privately told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine can not win the war against Russia and that it should begin peace talks with Continue reading »
Taking on autocratic powers has given the West a new-found sense of purpose, but it risks alienating emerging global players with its simplistic world view. A narrative that focuses on the clash between world orders does not resonate with countries more concerned about economic struggle and the climate crisis. National leaders and foreign policy experts Continue reading »
STEM graduate from MIT exhibits the most sophomoric of cognitive reification errors and thinks Accounting abstractions are real:
Maybe should have taken some Accounting and Finance STEM electives…
Analogy doesn’t work… No forms of figurative language work…
This thing going viral on Truth Social with numerous likes….
He’s speaking today. Here’s a preview: Former President Trump plans to draw a sharp ideological contrast between his MAGA movement and Bush-era Republicans in his speech at CPAC on Saturday — and will urge GOP voters to finish the job of remaking the party by backing him for president. The CPAC conference, now dominated by the MAGA movement, offers Trump a home-field advantage. He first spoke there in 2011, where he previewed many of the populist themes that fueled his 2016 campaign. Trump’s keynote address, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. ET Saturday, is expected to last about 90 minutes. “The issues that brought Trump to the fore in 2016 are still with us,” one Trump aide told Axios. “These issues have never left. He’s going to remind people of the bigger picture. There’s a longer struggle here — in terms of finishing the job.” Trump’s finish the job rhetoric is somewhat reminiscent of President Biden’s message in his State of the Union speech last month, in which he called on lawmakers to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and unifying the country.
Better David Dale than you CPAC is in session, and the lies, smears, and distortions are flying. Liberally, ironically. There’s a whole lotta fabulizing goin’ on. If like me you are seeing a flood of conservative tweets and memes that make you baroo and think, That can’t be right, you’re right. I’ve wasted too much time already chasing down where the truncated quotes, ugly rumors, inaccurate statistics, and other RW nonsense originated. Thankfully, CNN’s new, oft-derided CEO Chris Licht has not fired fact-checker Daniel Dale. Not yet. Dale is still doing the debunking so you don’t have to. CPAC has kept him busy: Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio uttered two false claims about President Joe Biden. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia repeated a debunked claim about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used two inaccurate statistics as he lamented the state of the country. Former Trump White House official Steve Bannon repeated his regular lie about the 2020 election having been stolen from Trump, this time baselesly blaming Fox for Trump’s defeat. Rep.
NC Republicans announce Medicaid expansion The vote is not planned until later this month. Until then anything can happen. On Thursday, however, Tar Heel State Republicans in firm control of the state legislature announced a deal for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. North Carolina would be the 40th state to expand Medicaid after a decade of Republican resistance. The Washington Post reports: The deal marks a stark turnaround for Republican leaders that played out over years in North Carolina and in states across the country, as more and more governors and legislatures expanded Medicaid to low-income residents. When that stopped working years ago, advocates put the measures on the ballot in seven conservative-leaning states, and voters approved expansion in every one. Associated Press: “This is something that we can all be very proud of,” House Speaker Tim Moore said at a Legislative Building news conference with Senate leader Phil Berger. “What a huge announcement this is for North Carolina.
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Every member of the progressive Squad voted for the resolution. Only Republican Reps. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene voted against it. This article was originally published by Antiwar.com. The House this week voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution to maintain sanctions on Syria following a devastating earthquake that has killed at least 5,900 people in the country, The Cradle reported on Wednesday. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and received 51 cosponsors. It passed in a vote […]
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USAID’s Samantha Power joined EU and US officials who rallied at the Lincoln Memorial at a pro-war demonstration organized by a clique of Ukrainian activists that have described themselves as “true Banderites” and “Right Sektor’s Washington DC branch.” High-ranking Biden foreign policy officials including USAID Administrator, Samantha Power, and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Karen Donfried, observed the first anniversary of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. There, on February […]
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