The EU and US are trying to replace Russian gas and push China out of the resource-rich African nation.
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On this week’s Lever podcasts: David interviews progressive icon Nina Turner, and MVC explores Charlie Chaplin’s anti-capitalist masterpiece Modern Times.
Florida has become a crucial access point for abortion in the region. A six-week ban could stop the wave of out-of-state patients coming in to access the procedure.
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"The continued proliferation of surveillance tools like facial recognition technologies in our society is deeply disturbing," said Sen. Ed Markey, reintroducing a federal ban.
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The term “Fourth Estate” had taken on the dust of a neglected antique before the release of the Pentagon Papers. Afterwards it seemed possible to think again of the press as the independent pole of power required by a working democracy.
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Jim Mamer continues his series deconstructing the flaws in American history taught in high school classrooms, this time tackling the Vietnam War.
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Higher shares of women and older workers made up the groups of “exiters” who left the labor force shortly after their Great Recession or early pandemic-era job losses.
The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
Welcome to my Wednesday Blog. Full speed ahead! Secret Invasion I’m writing the novel of the acclaimed Marvel comic series Secret Invasion, which was originally written by Brian Michael Bendis with art (on the main title) by Leinil Francis Yu. The novel will be covering the central mini-series of that name, plus lots of excursions into ... Read More
Chris Ogden – a consultant on the recent BBC documentary series examining the record of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – explores why the West appears to be silent on the authoritarianism unfolding in the world's largest democracy
My rather long short story “Burning Men” was published this morning by the Australian literary magazine, Westerly. It’s the first story I felt I was channeling, not writing. Burning Men is about a world where the cost of sexual violence is born by the perpetrators and how that changes everything. It burst out of the […]
Biden considers reinstating migrant detention.
The term "culture war" is being thrown a lot these days.
Yesterday (March 7, 2023) two big things happened. The first is that I got a lovely bunch of sunflower blooms for my birthday present. Which was ace. The second, the RBA Board wheeled out the governor to announce the 10th consecutive interest rate rise even though inflation has been falling for several months. The RBA…
The mainstream press is unashamedly beating the drums of war while deliberately turning away from what is actually happening, economically and politically in the region. read now...Matt Gaetz sponsored a resolution in the House, supported by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, to force congressional oversight of the continued U.S. military presence in Syria.
The post House Hawks Kill Bipartisan Effort to End War in Syria appeared first on The Intercept.
Labor has announced a strategy to recover much-needed water for the environment, reversing one of the Coalition's failures. read now...All laws are ultimately backed up by “if you don’t we will send violent men after you” and we should never, ever, pretend otherwise.
Mao’s “all power comes from the barrel of a gun”, or pre-gunpowder, guys with swords or clubs, is, however, only one-third true.
What matters isn’t the violent men, it is controlling the violent men. If all power came from violence, then it would be guilds of violent men who run society directly, but as powerful as police and armies are, in most places it isn’t military men or cops who who make the laws and are in the executive positions and when they are it is usually in a second or third tier country.
