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Wed, 29/03/2023 - 00:00
Now tolerating “pure evil” is How long before carnival shooting galleries replace little yellow ducks with cutouts of schoolchildren? Would anyone notice? Would anyone take offense? First news reports Monday said the Nashville elementary school shooter was a woman. All the rest was familiar. All too familiar. Read the gory details elsewhere. What stood out in the aftermath more than the gender identity of the shooter was the exasperated reaction of one Nashville tourist, Ashbey Beasley: “It’s only in America can somebody survive a mass shooting and then go on vacation…and find themselves near another mass shooting.” “That is a thing that happens now in our country,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow told viewers Monday night. “Gun murders are in fact so common in this country that the shooter in one attack can shoot and kill 11 people [and] drive to a nearby parking lot to kill himself at the site of where another mass shooting had occurred just a few years prior.” Beasley’s preliminary assumptions about the shooter appear incorrect, but so are many early reports about these events.
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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 23:38
NEC vote is another chapter of shame The Starmer-run Labour party has voted 22-12 to ban Jeremy Corbyn permanently from standing as a Labour candidate. Starmer’s disgusting betrayal of the man he once opportunistically said had been unfairly smeared is complete. The vote tally suggests that reports of dodgy deals behind the scenes with some […]
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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 23:30

Through my work at the Global University for Sustainability, I have come to know Professor Wen Tiejun. He provides a key analysis of the ten crises China has endured. I highly recommend his book to you (PDF), kindly donated to the reform community as an open access book.  There are 10 lectures that accompany the Continue Reading

The post Introducing China’s Leading Economist first appeared on Michael Hudson.
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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 23:00

“France is protesting against Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age. After months of strikes and protests, tension reached its peak on Thursday, with some violent outbursts in Paris that brought back memories from the months-long Yellow Jacket movement.” —Politico

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Emily’s big product launch at Gabriel’s Chez Laveau bistro is nearly ruined when tear gas completely spoils the vibe—and the leg of lamb. Luckily, she has a plan: diners post selfies of their involuntary tears with the hashtag #sogoodicried. Emily’s eyebrows perfectly offset her smeared Dior mascara. Her post gets 6.2 million likes, including from President Macron himself.

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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 23:00

The problem with the likely indictment of Donald Trump is that his offense is a metafiction. It is a story about a story. None of the main plot points—which are expected to lead to Trump becoming the first former or sitting US president ever to be charged with a crime—relate to what actually happened on […]

The post Bump and Grind appeared first on The New York Review of Books.

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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 22:44
Former Labour leader turns on successor – who had stood up for Miliband’s father against disgusting smears in right wing press Former Labour leader Ed Miliband said during a radio interview today that he backs Keir Starmer’s decision to bar Jeremy Corbyn standing as a Labour candidate, supposedly because of ‘antisemitism’. In 2013, when Miliband […]
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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 22:30

Over 150 journalists have been assassinated in Mexico since 2000. Behind the killings is a nexus of corruption and violence that links organized crime, police, and government.

The post Chris Hedges Report: How Mexico’s Epidemic of Murdered Journalists is an Ominous Warning to the Press Everywhere appeared first on scheerpost.com.

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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 21:05

By Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance The recent accord between Saudi Arabia and Iran, facilitated by China, signifies a seismic shift in geopolitical dynamics. This was followed by a three-day summit between the presidents of China and Russia in Moscow where they signed agreements that deepen their cooperation. China has established itself as a force […]

The post Patrick Lawrence: China and Russia Deepen Ties To Oppose US’s Destabilizing Actions appeared first on scheerpost.com.

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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 21:03

By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research What constitutes a crisis worthy of global attention? When a regional bank in the United States falls victim to the inversion of the yield curve (i.e., when short-term bond interest rates become higher than long-term rates), the Earth nearly stops spinning. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) […]

The post You Strike the Women, You Strike the Rock, You Will Be Crushed appeared first on scheerpost.com.

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Tue, 28/03/2023 - 19:37
“I’ve always known that it was the right thing to do, and paying this price is the right thing to do as well. It had to be done,” one ex-prisoner tells Josiah Mortimer Insulate Britain protesters locked up for defying a judge’s ban from speaking about climate change and fuel poverty have told Byline Times […]