Historian Alfred W. McCoy discusses China’s rapid economic and political rise and how Beijing is well positioned to broker an end to the war in Ukraine.
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It’s Wednesday, and we have a few observations on recent events including a music feature. But the main issue in the last 24 hours is the decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to add an 11th interest rate increase at a time when inflation is falling significantly. As I noted last week, the…
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2 cups fresh, cooked asparagus2 (7-ounce size) jars pimentos, drained½ cup skim milk2 raw asparagus spears, to garnish2 lemon slices Place first 3 ingredients in blender container; process at medium speed until puréed. Place puréed mixture in saucepan. Cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Pour evenly divided into 2 glasses. Garnish each serving with […]
Witches Contest The randomly-chosen winners of a digital copy of The Witches of World War 2 are: Paul Conway. Ken Norton. Taylor Nelson. Colin O’Mahoney. Ron Murphy. Thanks to everyone who took part. The Witches of World War 2 is Out Now #ThisMagicKillsFascists My new original graphic novel from TKO Studios, The Witches of World War […]
French authorities are detaining demonstrators without filing charges as public anger persists over President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular hike in the retirement age.
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The activists face 20 years in prison for handing out flyers that identified a cop they said was linked to the killing of a protester in the Atlanta forest.
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The Community Views team are thrilled to launch the ‘Living in Parramatta’ Views report and access to the views.id online reporting platform. The report provides a comprehensive summary of how Parramatta residents’ view their...On 15 May 2023, Palestinians mark seventy-five years of the Nakba or ‘catastrophe’. The day will commemorate the events in 1948 that saw over 750,000 Palestinians driven into exile and over 500 Palestinian towns and villages erased from the map. But it will also recognise the reality of the ongoing Nakba — the process of dispossession, […]
While he’s running for president It appears that they also tried to recreate the fiction that Scotland is thrilled to have Trump visiting. He said “It’s good to be home” when he arrived which is a very weird thing to say when you’re running for president of the United States. But whatever. The fact that he’s still doing business abroad and has no plans to divest if he were to win another term gets no coverage in the media. It’s just a given that he’ll run his business from the White House as he did before. This is just sad: He’s going to Ireland next. I think he’s expecting a big welcome like Biden received when he was there a couple of weeks ago. Not gonna happen. This pathetic little display is about the best he can hope for.
The Roberts court appears willing to ignore its purported judicial principles in order to end Biden’s student debt relief plan.
Forgetting and misremembering are the building blocks of creativity and imagination.
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I don’t know how many of you remember the resignation of NY Times reporter Donald MacNeil during the height of the COVID pandemic and if you don’t, the details are all right here. Without taking a position on the merits of the pressure he was under, I do think it was unfortunate that he had to leave at the time he did because he was a great science reporter in the middle of a once in a century pandemic. We lost something valuable. His newsletter today shows just what we lost. He takes on the NY Times’ truly shitty treatment of Dr. Anthony Fauci at the hands of Benjamim Wallace-Wells the other day. This is just the opening. I urge you to read the whole thing: I love science-fiction series like “The Man in the High Castle” because they force us to question our ingrained assumption that history was always ordained to turn out as it did. It was set in 1950’s America after the Allies lost World War II. Germany had beaten us to The Bomb, vaporized Washington and stormed ashore at Virginia Beach. Berlin and Tokyo had divided the U.S. between them. Most Americans were cowed but prospering under the new regime.
Sky News’ highest rating presenter with a whole 16 viewers, Peta Credlin, has declared that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s honeymoon is over after Albo was not booked to DJ the MET gala. ”Finally people are beginning to see through the... Read More ›
They’re coming for no-fault divorce I saw this news making the rounds on twitter a few days ago and was astonished at the response. There seems to be quite a few pissed off men about this. I had no idea it was on the menu but it stands to reason that it would be. Ban abortion and birth control and end no-fault divorce. Family values, macho style: STEVEN CROWDER, THE right-wing podcaster, is getting a divorce. “No, this was not my choice,” Crowder told his online audience last week. “My then-wife decided that she didn’t want to be married anymore — and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.” Crowder’s emphasis on “the state of Texas” makes it sound like the Lone Star State is an outlier, but all 50 states and the District of Columbia have no-fault divorce laws on the books — laws that allow either party to walk away from an unhappy marriage without having to prove abuse, infidelity, or other misconduct in court. It was a hard-fought journey to get there.