Former BBC journalist and producer Patrick Howse explores why the BBC’s reluctance to tell us when we are being lied to is well past its sell by date
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An exclusive poll for Byline Times finds only a minority of voters would choose to remain in the UK if given the option to emigrate to another country
This rule will deny thousands of migrants fleeing persecution their right to seek asylum at the United States’ southern border.
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Spain's golden visa program has helped to attract thousands of affluent Latin American politicians and business owners to Madrid, but its days may be numbered, at least in its current form.
A judge denied a restraining order against initial construction of the $90 million militarized police training complex.
The post Forest Defenders Vow Resistance After Court Green-Lights Phase I of “Cop City” appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Will President Biden, Congress and other Americans recognize the massive war crimes committed against the Iraqi people with appropriate declarations and actions on March 19, 2023?
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If we don’t care about prisoners on any normal day, then why would we care about them when a pandemic is spreading through the system?
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By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes French workers have shut the country down with general strikes three times in the last month to defend their time. They’re protesting a proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. It’s enough to make you cry. Here, the Social Security retirement age was ratcheted up to […]
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- by Umar Lateef Misgar
Our educational house most definitely is burning, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told a town hall on America’s teacher pay crisis at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week.
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Because statistical analyses need a causal skeleton to connect to the world, causality is not extra-statistical but instead is a logical antecedent of real-world inferences. Claims of random or “ignorable” or “unbiased” sampling or allocation are justified by causal actions to block (“control”) unwanted causal effects on the sample patterns. Without such actions of causal […]
Nobody is trying to impinge on a politician’s right to freely practise their religion – but they cannot use that religion to shield themselves from important questions, writes Nathan O'Hagan
I had a little exchange on twitter and Mastodon yesterday on reading habits. The initial cause of the exchange was the claim that book reading is in decline, and I asked for some evidence of this, which my interlocutor duly provided in the form of a link to a survey of British readers by Booktrust […]
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February 24th, 2023: People who think they might With innovation and flexibility on par or even better than NATO’s, Ukraine’s use of artillery has surprised everyone – especially the Russians. But what Ukrainians need above all is ammunition.
Your humble blogger goes solo with Gonzalo Lira.
"(The government) can run media organisations to bring its own message out, but it should never exert control over the entire industry."
Police reform schemes avoid addressing the causes of criminal activity, most of all poverty. But that would mean giving nice things to people
Published by Cody Bloomfield: Defending Rights & Dissent
In an absurd ruling, the Eighth Circuit denied that boycotts are political expression. Now, the Supreme Court has denied writ of certiorari, letting the Eighth Circuit’s ruling in Arkansas Times LP v. Waldrip stand. This is a missed opportunity for the Supreme Court to take a stand for the proud tradition of political boycott in the United States.
 An oddball group converges in a forest where a bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine. read now...Full text.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis 2023-02-24 09:00 | ||