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Fri, 11/07/2025 - 21:09

My hopes these days spring not from Europe nor from the United States. Let me be frank on this. I take my hat off to the young people particularly, but not only young people, to Jewish comrades who went out on the street to demonstrate for Palestine, who were beaten up by police, who were […]

The post On the sad disconnection between our (Western) campaign to free Palestine from our campaigns to liberate the… West – video appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

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Fri, 11/07/2025 - 20:48
There’s a great anecdote about Roman Jakobson, the structuralist theorist of language, in Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s book, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. For Jakobson, and for other early structuralist and post-structuralist thinkers, language, cybernetic theories of information, and economists’ efforts to understand how the economy worked all went together : By aligning the refined […]
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Fri, 11/07/2025 - 13:58
Equal Tests For Men and Women in Front Line Combat Roles: Progress or Regression?

There has been a lot of back and forth about men and women being tested equally for front line combat roles.

First, let me make it very clear, I am one hundred percent for equality between men and women. I’ve worked under women bosses, had no issue with it. While at Morgan Stanley I had a woman business partner for a year and a half. It was a very sucessful relationship, we’re still friends.

I’ve learned a lot from the women in my life, begining with my mother; the vast majority of which has added significant value to my life. And although I can’t say much nice about my two ex-wives: I learned hard lessons from each of them as well.

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Fri, 11/07/2025 - 07:01

This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli spyware, blacklists, and military-linked firms.

The post Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence appeared first on MintPress News.

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Fri, 11/07/2025 - 03:00

Okay, we’re just going to come right out and say it: We mistook your grandmother for another patient and brought her in for surgery this morning. This happens from time to time. Thankfully, the surgery went well. Still, we think it’s important to be as transparent as possible with our mistakes.

We’re sure you have many questions, and we intend to answer them all. For starters, how did this happen? The simple explanation would be that we meant to take her roommate, whose name sounds a lot like Doris and is also somebody’s grandmother. Unfortunately, it’s never quite that simple, since the patient we meant to take was a middle-aged man named Valentino on a different floor. We’re still investigating what exactly went wrong, but we suspect it may be related to staffing problems and the fact that the same person was responsible for both lunch orders and patient transport. It’s possible that when asked whether she wanted the chicken barley soup or house salad, your grandmother requested a knee replacement.