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Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
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The rise of online sleuthing is leading to the 'gamification' of our lives at the expense of often deeply vulnerable people
21st of October 2024 I am so happy to have been asked to contribute to this round table in honour of David. We were close friends for over fifty years. All who knew him well could sense the extraordinary unity between his life and work. His life bore testimony to his ideals. There were no … Continue reading In Memory of David P. Calleo – Bologna Conference
What we’ve already uncovered about the next Trump administration.
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Rachael Reeves' budget was disappointing. Not for its content, but the way it was communicated
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So from January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will inherit the on-going genocide that the US government has been party to in the Middle East. He will then have no cover and will be judged accordingly. What follows are a few thoughts that I had when I watched the unfolding disaster for the Democrats and the…
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Over ninety-nine percent of economists did not predict the 2008 financial crisis.
The vast majority of economists were pro-globalization, by which I mean pro offshoring and outsourcing. They said it would be good for America, they were wrong.
China is predicted to wind up with over 50% of the world’s industry by 2030. Forget all the bullshit about great power competition. It’s over. There may be a war, but if there is one the West will either lose or the world will be destroyed in a nuclear exchange.
Back in the 90s an economist called Brockway liked to say “Economists are bad for your health.”
Just for giggles I went through my January 2017 post archives today, and found one that (sadly) bears repeating. So as a public service, I am re-posting it. Feel free to bookmark it. (Originally posted on Den of Cinema on January 18, 2017) In anticipation of what may be in store for us, here are links to the resources likely to be more crucial than ever. Bookmark this post! ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom American Civil Liberties Union Amnesty International Center for Democracy and Technology Committee to Protect Journalists Electronic Privacy Information Center Electronic Frontier Foundation Human Rights Watch Indivisible League of Women Voters Planned Parenthood Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Southern Poverty Law Center You’re welcome. — Dennis Hartley
There won’t be any introspection.
Empires, like fortunes, are lost slowly and then all at once.
I’m afraid what is coming is going to fall on every American fairly equally like the snow on the graveyard at the end of James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, further westwards, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling too upon every part of the lonely churchyard where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Donald Trump’s victory in the US Presidential elections will boost the right around the world.
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A racist far right figure with a history of extreme sexism will sit at the top of the world’s most powerful country, after Donald Trump regained the US Presidency.
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Teachers and School Staff for Palestine from over 40 NSW schools held a successful week of action in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon in late October.
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On 5 October, the National Council of the NTEU voted to endorse an institutional academic boycott of Israel.
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Universities are cracking down on Palestine activism in a blatant attack on free speech and the right to protest.
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Over 400 staff and students attended a rally on 16 October at ANU in defense of jobs and pay, marching to the Chancelry building and office of the Vice-Chancellor.
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Almost exactly five years ago, then Immigration Minister Peter Dutton tried, and failed, to deport the Tamil family from Biloela to Sri Lanka.
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CFMEU members in NSW are set to strike on 12 November in protest at the Albanese government placing the CFMEU into administration.
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Last month, Hurricane Helene and Milton ripped through Florida, killing 241 people and wiping out hundreds of billions in homes and infrastructure.
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