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Medical manufacturers say states can’t use their IV equipment to kill, a stance that could fuel new challenges to lethal injection.
The post Companies Already Ban the Use of Their Drugs for Lethal Injection. Now They’re Blocking IV Equipment. appeared first on The Intercept.
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Invited and chaired by Patrick Lovell (director of The Con), in this video Bill Black and I discuss financial corruption in the USA and the EU. Bill Black needs no introduction. As a lawyer he filed over 1700 indictments for financial corruption in the US, from the S&L scandal to this day. He was also the […]
The post Bill Black and Yanis Varoufakis discussing corruption in finance – video appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
Inglorious procrastination is one of the European Union’s standard responses to major crises. This is not merely due to the difficulty of getting twenty-seven Prime Ministers and Presidents to agree. It is also because of their motivated tendency to ask themselves the wrong questions, thus heading slowly but inexorably to self-harming policy solutions. After the […]
The post Why can’t the EU power ahead with green subsidies like Biden’s? It isn’t just political procrastination – THE GUARDIAN appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
Grace Oppong told Byline Times that her daughter has been repeatedly hospitalised due to mould and damp
Modularity is the mark of a type of independence from context. The same functional relationship between variables will hold in a given component of the contributing mechanisms whether or not there is a change in a different component. The total effect may change when different components contribute, but the operation of the modular mechanism will […]
Yuliya Baranova, Eleanor Holbrook, David MacDonald, William Rawstorne, Nicholas Vause and Georgia Waddington The functioning of major government bond and related repo markets has deteriorated on several occasions in recent years as trading demand has overwhelmed dealers’ intermediation capacity. Seeking a remedy, Duffie (2020) proposes a study of the costs and benefits of a clearing … Continue reading Central clearing and the functioning of government bond markets
John Mitchinson reflects on what he learned about the 'baffling presence of absence' when his father died in his arms
The BRICS summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August. It was another confirmation of the relative decline of US power and the increasingly turbulent state of world imperialism.
The post BRICS summit a sign of growing imperialist rivalry first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Despite the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, both NATO and Russia are intent on continuing a war of attrition no matter the cost.
The post Ukraine counter-offensive facing failure as bloodshed continues first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Solidarity answers key questions about the Voice to Parliament, what it would mean, and whether there is any alternative to it.
The post Will a Voice to Parliament deliver change—and is there any alternative? first appeared on Solidarity Online.
In 1973 workers in Chile were on the march and could have taken power, but the left’s failures allowed the ruling class to unleash bloody repression, argues Raili Maria Haagensen.
The post Chile’s bloody coup 50 years on first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Antony Loewenstein’s new book, The Palestine Laboratory, looks at Israel’s military cyber industrial complex and its role as one of the world's biggest arms dealers and seller of some of the most invasive software. He talked to Solidarity.
The post How Israel trades on war and occupation first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The literature classroom is an unusually fit environment in which to pursue “the deepening and sharpening of emotional powers.”
Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for August 2023 today (September 14, 2023). Employment growth was strong in August and kept pace with the underlying population growth and the participation rise so that unemployment remained steady. The weaker result in July was probably mostly reflecting the rotation…
Obama’s former acting Solicitor General and a senator-turned-lobbyist are helping a dark money group pressure the high court.
In the Romney excerpt @mckaycoppins Paul Ryan, already out as speaker, calls Romney and lobbies him not to vote to convict Trump in 1st impeachment trial — for all the self serving cynical reasons that you might imagine. https://t.co/Kl8qwjpbTX — Susan Glasser (@sbg1) September 13, 2023 Yep: Shortly before 2 p.m. on the day of the vote, Romney left his office and walked to the Capitol, where he waited in his hideaway for his turn to speak. Minutes before going on the floor, he received an unexpected call on his cellphone. It was Paul Ryan. Romney and his team had kept a tight lid on how he planned to vote, but somehow his former running mate had gotten word that he was about to detonate his political career. Romney had been less judgmental of Ryan’s acquiescence to Trump than he’d been of most other Republicans’. He believed Ryan was a sincere guy who’d simply misjudged Trump. And yet, here was Ryan on the phone, making the same arguments Romney had heard from some of his more calculating colleagues.