By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
Attorneys and journalists whom the CIA spied on when they visited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London have filed a lawsuit against the CIA, its former director Mike Pompeo, UC Global and its director, David Morales, in U.S. District Court.
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Paul Mason, author of 5 Ways to Stop Fascism, breaks it down: Read more here.
How does Generation Z’s student debt burden stack up against millennials’ at the same age?
The NDIS is pumping feel-good stories through social media channels at a robust rate, but for many, there is a massive gap between these accounts and actual service delivery. read now...by Julien Etienne* It is startling to see that regulation scholarship continues projecting a business-as-usual picture, when current trends and scientific insights into the foreseeable future all point to radical change. Indeed, scientists have been documenting the extremely rapid decline in biodiversity and acceleration of climate change. They project that these trends will continue to […]
We've been doing live streams of our songwriting sessions from our studio on our Twitch channel. We just turn on the camera and try out ideas and see where they take us.
Here is a clip from one of those sessions we posted to our YouTube Channel.
Rumble Fish Style (Live Stream Clip)
One of the things I wanted to try was something that sounded like the soundtrack for the 1983 movie Rumble Fish.
In memory of Lance Taylor
The fast-growing esports industry boosts economies as well as top players.
States depend on the consent of the governed: there are only a finite number of cops, and politicians, once stripped of authority and armed guards,…
Aug 22, 2022 ROBERT SKIDELSKY The widening gaps in policy formation nowadays reflect the division of labor and increasing specialization that has taken us from the sixteenth-century ideal of the Renaissance man. And today’s biggest policymaking gap has grown so large that it threatens global catastrophe. LONDON – Just as the insistent demand for more … Continue reading Mind the Policy Gaps
A study that examined sovereign risk among oil-exporting countries provides insights into why sanctions may not deter Russia, a major oil-exporter.
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
In our INET working paper, "China’s Development Path,” we employ the “social conditions of innovative enterprise” framework to analyze the key determinants of China’s development path from the economic reforms of 1978 to the present. First, we focus on how government investments in human capabilities and physical infrastructure provided foundational support for the emergence of Chinese enterprises capable of technological learning.
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
It gives me great pleasure, as well as relief, that The New Inquiry has agreed to republish this landmark essay. For a while now, strangers…
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The widening gaps in policy formation nowadays reflect the division of labor and increasing specialization that has taken us from the sixteenth-century ideal of the Renaissance man. And today’s biggest policymaking gap has grown so large that it threatens global catastrophe.
As environmental breakdown threatens to render large parts of the planet unfarmable, how can mass starvation best be averted? By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 22nd August 2022 This is my response to the open letter from my friend Jyoti Fernandes, published on the website of the Landworkers’ Alliance. Dear Jyoti, I’m not sure whether […]
I’m thoroughly convinced that time is an illusion but somehow, within that
illusion, my eldest daughter will turn 40 this coming week. That has put me
in a reflective mood so as I type, I’ve no idea where this post is going to
go today.
Scott Morrison’s “secret powers” are being heralded in much of the media as proof that he was up to no good. The simpler explanation is that on governance issues, he was often just not much good. As a journalist and … Continue reading
Is Crypto Really Going To Crash? (Yes)
Crypto is going to crash and could take your savings with it.
Dear ES/PE community members, find below an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 20 postdoc positions, 14 calls for papers for conferences (some are fully or partly funded) and special issues, 7 job openings, and 6 PhD fellowships, a grant and an award in economic sociology, political economy, and related fields, with August 22 — September 25 deadlines. Share […]