From the most powerful woman in the US Congress: That’s just beautiful.
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The Liberal Party needs to be held accountable for its racist attitudes and scandals that largely get brushed aside. read now...Protecting all workers from Covid infection isn't even on the table.
There was a time when I would have been all over this story when it happened because I was documenting taser use around the country and the world. To me this use of electro-shock to put people into compliance is nothing short of torture and sometimes, summary execution. But I was told by some experts, and criticized by activists, who said that while the dangers of tasers are horrific they are nothing when compared to the horror of police shootings so I backed off my little crusade after the Michael Brown shooting. But it’s still happening, particularly to people with mental health issues which is just heartbreaking. And there are times, like this, when it is deadly force: Videos released this week of a teacher who died after Los Angeles police discharged a Taser on him at least six times on a Venice street raise serious concerns about the officers’ tactics, law enforcement experts who reviewed the tapes said. The LAPD’s actions have sparked alarms from community activists as well as Mayor Karen Bass and are now the subject of an internal investigation.
Briefing to inform the Third Reading debate in the House of Commons on 17 January 2023 Unintended consequences of the Online Safety Bill mean a trio of surveillance, prior restraint of speech, and restriction on access to online content and services. The Bill seeks to protect children online, but its measures’ effect extends far beyond […]
Ingredients: 1 pound black beans1 small smoked beef tongue1 pound smoked and salted pork2 onions4 tomatoes1 tablespoon bacon fat2 small green hot peppers Instructions: In Brazil, this nourishing dish is almost always served with small grilled hot sausages. ©️Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Japan, 1971 Published in the United States and Canada by BOBLEY PUBLISHING, a division […]
A Policy briefing Criminal liability for content harmful to children Amendment NC2 Sir William Cash and Miriam Cates Drafted by Dr Monica Horten – 16 Jan 2023 The Amendment is not about child protection. It is about content harmful to children, and restricting their access to it. The Amendment inserts a criminal liability into Section […]
One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University.
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Happy Martin Luther King Day to you. Or, if you come from a different faith tradition, happy Robert E. Lee’s birthday? Because this is a thing the state of Alabama apparently celebrates. I wish this was a joke, but it’s not: Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson Davis’ Birthday are right around the corner. As noted in the original this surely proves there is no institutional racism, amirite?
I finished this audiobook last week, and I’m taking a few minutes to write down my thoughts before I forget them. It’s a hard thing to remember to do! The book is called Gangsters of Capitalism, by Jonathan M. Katz. Superficially, it’s a biography of the American Marine officer Smedley Butler, best known, I think, … Continue reading Gangsters of Capitalism
As a nation Japan would not win many Nobel peace prizes. For centuries its pirates pillaged Chinese coastal towns. In the 19th century carve-up of China, Japan gained Taiwan, the Liaodong peninsula and later Manchuria. In 1910 it colonised Korea. In 1937 it began its attack into China proper, killing close to an estimated 20 million Continue reading »
The announcement this month by the Albanese government that Australia would be acquiring HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) batteries from the United States can be put down to a few factors. One is that sense of being left out of the club. If European states can have such launchers with seemingly devastating effect, why Continue reading »
George Pell was, by temperament and personality, about the worst possible choice to be made a bishop, then an archbishop, and ultimately a cardinal — one of the inner circle of the church entrusted with central church administration and the selection of new Popes. He was the wrong man for the times – if ever Continue reading »
Hannah Dickinson, an asylum lawyer from the Asylum Seeker Rights Centre, is reported in The Canberra Times to “have rubbished suggestions people are seizing on huge backlogs of asylum applications to lodge bogus claims for protection”. Yet in the same article, the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is reported to have said asylum “backlogs (have) Continue reading »
The nation is approaching a watershed decision. Are we brave enough to try and correct the wrongs of the past? The Voice. These two simple words have unleashed a manufactured storm. For me they set running a kaleidoscope of scenes: Captain Cook’s arrival The astonishment of the people already here Cook’s abandonment of his instructions Continue reading »
“The U.S. government believes that the only democratic institution in Venezuela is an assembly that has not met in seven years and whose term has expired,” writes Vijay Prashad, an Indian historian, editor and journalist in a recent article from Consortium News. Without a single word of dispute for Vijay’s presented view of the United Continue reading »
This piece by Peter Drier sums it up for those guys who want to appropriate King for their one single purpose: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was no moderate. Today, he is viewed as something of an American saint. His name adorns schools and street signs. His birthday January 15, 1929 – is observed as a national holiday on the third Monday of January each year. This year as in year’s past, Americans from across the political spectrum invoke King’s name to justify their beliefs and actions. But in his day, King was considered a dangerous troublemaker. Both Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson worried that King was being influenced by Communists. King was harassed by the FBI and vilified in the media. The establishment’s campaign to denigrate King worked. In August 1966 – as King was bringing his civil rights campaign to Northern cities to address poverty, slums, housing segregation and bank lending discrimination—the Gallup Poll found that 63% of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of King, compared with 33% who viewed him favorably. King called himself a democratic socialist.
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A new study reveals that both Israeli businesses and multinational corporations have been instrumental in helping Israel restrict water access to Palestinians and destroy Palestinian water infrastructure.
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Stella Assange joins Lee Camp to discuss her husband, Julian Assange, his deteriorating condition and the impact of his confinement in Belmarsh prison in London.
The post “Something Is Going To Happen Soon” – Stella Assange on Julian Assange’s Imprisonment appeared first on MintPress News.
The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry's successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make record profits.
The post Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine appeared first on The Intercept.
It took the GOP just 20 years Here in North Carolina, this New York Times essay by Margaret Renkl strikes very close to home. Where Republicans are in charge, spite drives policy and rationality takes a holiday. Here or just west in Tennessee, blue cities have targets painted on them: Last year, when Nashville’s Metro Council voted not to support the state’s bid for the city to host the 2024 Republican National Convention, retaliation was widely understood to be inevitable, according to Nashville’s NPR affiliate, WPLN News. Now we know what shape retaliation will take: Last week, on the first day of the new legislative session, Republicans in both the Tennessee House and Senate introduced legislation that would cut our Metro Council in half. (The bills ostensibly apply to all city governments with a legislative body larger than 20 members, but that’s just Nashville.) If passed, the law would overturn not only a 60-year history but also the will of the Nashville people, who voted in 2015 to keep its 40-member council intact.
It's not a bad apple, it's a rotting orchard, writes Sian Norris – as a Met police officer admits to being a serial rapist
Sad news has reached us today. One of the leading Post Keynesian economists, Victoria Chick, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. R.I.P.
Thanks to everyone who has given, I appreciate it greatly. We’re about $1,300 short of the final goal. If we hit it I’ll write an article on reasons for hope. Either way, again, I’m very grateful.