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The conference followed a weekend of brutal massacres of civilians by the RSF in refugee camps around Darfur
The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, Christian nationalists, and, of course, Donald Trump has staged an oligarchic assault on our democracy. If the nation’s corporate elite once leveraged their relationships within government to enrich themselves, they’ve now cut out the middleman. We’re living in a new Gilded Age, with a proto-fascistic and religiously regressive administration of, by, and for the billionaires. With the wind at their backs, leading elements in the Republican Party have rapidly eschewed euphemisms and political correctness altogether,... Read more
With the words ‘We simply do not know,’ Keynes describes in his General Theory what he calls ‘objective uncertainty.’ There is simply no way in which one can foresee certain events or developments because they are objectively unknown. The past does not predict the future. This constitutes a fundamental break with the dominant neoclassical worldview […]
From normalization to confrontation, Sudan has become Iran’s latest front against Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi.
The post Iran’s Military Presence in Sudan: UAE-Israel Plot Backfires appeared first on MintPress News.
Please take a few moments to let us know how you’d like your tax dollars spent by the Trump administration.
1. It’s important to me that my money supports…
a) public television
b) national parks
c) irrigation for the Mar-a-Lago golf course
2. In this era of climate crisis, the government must invest more in…
a) green and renewable energy
b) electric and solar-powered vehicles
c) plastic straws
3. My priorities, as a taxpayer, include…
a) investment in our public schools
b) availability of scholarships for higher education
c) providing government subsidies for the world’s wealthiest, smartest, and most virile man, Elon Musk
The defense secretary’s focus on “lethality” could lead to “wanton killing and wholesale destruction and disregard for law,” one Pentagon official said.
The post Pete Hegseth Is Gutting Pentagon Programs to Reduce Civilian Casualties appeared first on The Intercept.
With the buzz on this weekend's adventure continuing to grow, here's the latest set of images released for Doctor Who Season 2 Ep. 2: "Lux."
The president’s reckless tariffs are designed to goad his opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class.
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Zarina Zabrisky speaks exclusively to Ukrainian officers from the 'Elves' unit about how Putin's agents waged a decades-long hybrid war against their country
For several years now, yours truly has been teaching an introductory economics course every fall for future social studies teachers. Alongside a few of my own books, Klas Eklund’s Vår ekonomi (Our Economy) is also on the reading list. The book was released in its 16th revised edition in December 2024—an impressive feat and in itself […]
In preparation for the minor release, Drupal 11.2.x will enter the alpha phase the week of May 7, 2025. Core developers should plan to complete changes that are only allowed in minor releases prior to the alpha release.
The 11.2.0-alpha1 deadline for most core patches is May 7, 2025.
The 10.6.x release branch of core will be created for the next maintenance minor release.
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Developers and site owners can begin testing the alpha after its release.
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The 11.2.x release branch of core will be created before the alpha is tagged. Future feature and API additions will continue to be targeted against the main development branch, 11.x.
Anniversaries of the Hillsborough tragedy call to mind historian Lucy Noakes’ description of grief as a ‘disruptive emotion’ with the ability to ‘transform our sense of self’. Writing about the home front during the world wars, Noakes explains how authorities, anxious about domestic unrest, sought to discourage this disruptive emotion, instead promoting stoic self-control as […]
Neoliberalism was neither new nor particularly liberal when it prevailed 50 years ago. Its great advantage was its sharp deviation from classical liberalism. Even though it paid tribute to liberal thinkers, neoliberalism shared neither their method nor their concept of the market. Today, we are on the cusp of another, equally profound, ideological innovation. Unlike […]
The post NEOLIBERALISM IS DEAD. SAY HELLO TO TECHLORDISM – Project Syndicate op-ed & video appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
Australia’s number one Donald Trump impersonator, Peter Dutton, has wheeled his son out in front of the press to illustrate the difficulty young people face in buying their first investment property. ”Times are tough and my son is a classic... Read More ›
An explanation for the abundance of super-Earths
The post Planet Nurseries Are Smaller Than We Thought appeared first on Nautilus.
President Daniel Noboa appears to have stolen Ecuador’s election. He’s now poised to consolidate control of a system that has benefitted cartels and multinational corporations – including his family business – at the expense of average Ecuadorians. And Washington likes what it sees. Watch The Grayzone’s special video report on Noboa’s well-documented ties to transnational drug cartels here. On April 13, 2025, Ecuador’s National Electoral Council proclaimed incumbent President Daniel Noboa the winner of the presidential runoff—a result that his […]
The post Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador first appeared on The Grayzone.
The post Daniel Noboa’s electoral theft will cement cartel and corporate control over Ecuador appeared first on The Grayzone.
Doctor Who Season 2 Ep. 2: "Lux" is the most gleefully nuts episode to date; an exhilarating and profound defining story for the Disney+ era.