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THE PROPHECY CAME TRUE!!

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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 18:00
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Mainstreaming Marxism

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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 17:17

A focus on internal relations without reference to dialectics. Hubris on the role of norm entrepreneurs without recourse to organic intellectuals. Theorising on the state without encountering capitalist state debate. This is how mainstream theorising in political science and International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE), especially, operates in silencing its more radical Marxist counterparts. This practice of silencing has a long history. My argument in a new article in International Affairs is that such silencing goes to the very origin story of the disciplines of IR and IPE, which my argument reveals in relation to the themes of class and race.

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Bad faith UN report on Nicaragua whitewashes violent US-backed coup

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/27/un-report-nicaragua-us-coup/
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 16:19

A new, anonymously-produced UN report denouncing Nicaragua’s government whitewashes the brutal US-backed 2018 coup against it while refusing to interview victims of sadistic opposition violence. Abuse and weaponization of the United Nations system by the United States and its vassal governments to both mislead and intimidate the rest of the world have been a feature of international relations since the very founding of the United Nations during the time of the Korean War. In recent years, that situation has deteriorated […]

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NSW Farmers host Meet the Candidates event at Nana Glen

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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 14:07

THE Coffs Harbour Branch of NSW Farmers hosted a community forum to meet the candidates for the 2023 State Election on Monday 20 March at Nana Glen Hall. Nana Glen Hall Committee member Garry Dew, a long-time local farmer, officially welcomed attendees to the event. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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The inflationary episode is being driven by profit gouging and interest rate hikes won’t help much

https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=60735
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 13:36
I have read an interesting reports in the last months that demonstrate there is a shift in thinking about inflation – away from the tired narratives that attempt to implicate excessive government spending, poorly contrived monetary policies (particularly quantitative easing) or drag in the usual suspect – excessive wage demands from workers. All of the…

ai, meta, curiousity

https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2023/03/26/ai-meta-curiousity/
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 13:14
More things that I’ve noticed about integrating LLMs into my workflow: I also spent some time today catching up on that last piece of hype, Meta’s VR bid. I don’t like to dismiss anyone’s work, but it’s strange how Meta has been shifting tone from Oculus’s gaming vibe to something more … generic? Flat enterprise? […]

Where was Ron?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/26/where-was-ron/
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 11:00
He doesn’t recall… This is weird: Where was Ron DeSantis on 9/11? A new spot from the Lincoln Project contends that you wouldn’t have a good answer based on the Governor’s fumbling response in a recent friendly longform interview with Piers Morgan. DeSantis was beginning his year teaching at the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia when the terrorist attacks that changed America were orchestrated. But those who listened to the Morgan interview would have had no clue that he was shaping some of Georgia’s brightest minds on that dark day. “I think I’d just graduated college and I didn’t have a care in the world and all of a sudden, Boom. You know, it happened,” DeSantis said. The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson offered explanatory excoriation of the Governor’s gaffe as being of a piece with recent missteps as he continues to move toward a run for the Republican Presidential nomination. “Every American knows where they were on 9/11, and though he refuses to say it, we know Ron DeSantis was teaching at the elite Darlington school in Georgia on that day.

Prosecution of GMB strikers collapses

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/03/26/prosecution-of-gmb-strikers-collapses/?utm_sou…
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 09:49
State submits no evidence in persecution of workers as trial collapses in farce The prosecution of the so-called ‘GMB three’ has collapsed in farce. The three had been arrested last May charged with wilful obstruction of the highway under the Thatcherite 1980 Highways Act anti-strike law after attempting to ask drivers not to cross their […]

Mafia ethics

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/26/mafia-ethics/
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 09:30
Omertà (/oʊˈmɛərtÉ™/, Italian pronunciation: [omerˈta]) is a Southern Italian code of silence and code of honor and conduct that places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or outsiders; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or outsiders, especially during criminal investigations; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with the illegal activities of others (i.e., not contacting law enforcement or the authorities when one is aware of, witness to, or even the victim of certain crimes). It originated and remains common in Southern Italy, where banditry or brigandage and Mafia-type criminal organizations (like the Camorra, Cosa Nostra, ‘Ndrangheta, Sacra Corona Unita and Società foggiana) have long been strong. Similar codes are also deeply rooted in other areas of the Mediterranean, including Malta, Crete in Greece, and Corsica, all of which share a common or similar historic culture with Southern Italy.

Congress Has Been Captured by the Arms Industry

https://tomdispatch.com/congress-has-been-captured-by-the-arms-industry/
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 08:36

On March 13th, the Pentagon rolled out its proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024. The results were — or at least should have been — stunning, even by the standards of a department that’s used to getting what it wants when it wants it. The new Pentagon budget would come in at $842 billion. That’s the highest level requested since World War II, except for the peak moment of the Afghan and Iraq wars, when the United States had nearly 200,000 troops deployed in those two countries. $1 Trillion for the Pentagon? It’s important to note that the $842 billion proposed price tag for the Pentagon next year will only be the beginning of what taxpayers will be asked to... Read more

Remember when Andrew Cuomo was America’s Governor?

https://digbysblog.net/2023/03/26/remember-when-andrew-cuomo-was-americas-gover…
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Mon, 27/03/2023 - 08:00
Yeah, it was always ridiculous. That CNN sideshow with him and his brother turned my stomach at the time. I’m not surprised they both crashed and burned. And look at Andrew Cuomo now. Does he think he can make a comeback as a Republican or something? Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) slammed the New York and Georgia investigations into former President Trump as being part of a “cancer in our body politic,” arguing they are politically motivated.  Cuomo told John Catsimatidis, who hosts the talk radio show “The Cats Roundtable,” in an interview on WABC 770 that he expects Trump will be indicted in Manhattan next week.