After more than 20 years of losing wars, recruiting for the U.S. Army is now officially a mess. Last year, that service fell short of its goal by 15,000 recruits, or a quarter of its target. Despite reports of better numbers in the first months of this year, Army officials doubt they will achieve their objective this time around either. The commanding general at Fort Jackson, the South Carolina facility that provides basic training to 50% of all new members of the Army, called the recruiting command’s task the hardest since the all-volunteer military was launched in 1973. The Army’s leaders were alarmed enough to make available up to $1.2 billion for recruitment incentives and related initiatives. Those incentives include enlistment bonuses of up to $50,000... Read more
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The “antisemitic logic” behind the conservative counterrevolution A gyrating guitar player from Tupelo and four lads from Liverpool were part of a Communist conspiracy to poison the minds of twentieth-century youth. Or that’s how conservatives saw it then and perceive how culture works now. Greg Sargent points to a thread by Seth Cotlar on the right’s perception that “woke elites” are “orchestrating liberal cultural change.” Cotlar proposes that the right’s mantra that “politics is downstream of culture” has roots in the paranoid style of politics that sees sinister forces behind prosaic cultural changes. “Antisemitic logic,” writes the Willamette University professor of history, drives the conservative mind to postulate such notions that “((Hollywood))) secretly controls American culture and politics.” “It’s the genealogical descendent of the idea from the 1960s that the anti-christian (((Communists))) must be the force behind this rock and roll music that is poisoning the minds of white children and making them sympathetic to the civil rights movement.” Cotlar tweets.
A controversial parliamentary group that successfully opposes fuel price rises and tough climate action is backed by a campaigner who denies that humans are causing climate change, Josiah Mortimer reveals
This post is a memo that I just presented at a workshop organized at the EUI by Kate McNamara, Frederic Merand and Catherine Hoeffler. Some of its key ideas were articulated in an informal discussion with Bill Janeway, Margaret Levi, Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik and Gabriel Zucman a couple of weeks back. None of them […]
Hey, from now on, I'll be totally inactive on Twitter.
I'll leave my account 'as is' with a link to this article in the most recent Twitt.
I'll not close or delete my account to prevent bad intentioned users to recreate fake accounts in my name and impersonate me. But that's all. Consider my account now as a ghost, only around to archive what was done in the past.
I already started to unfollow many accounts around January, I archived everything, deleted DMs, and over the last month I only connected to it to copy/paste news from my blog. So, I already was a zombie on the platform.
David Tennant said the creators behind Beep the Meep visited the set of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special; a "Confidential" return?
Dear TikTok Support,
I don’t know if this is the right place for this or if TikTok has a specific form for complaints regarding user-submitted effects, but I have a big issue with the currently trending old age filter.
After seeing my For You page flooded with fun images of young couples suddenly transformed into scraggly-skinned septuagenarians, I decided to join the party by uploading a photo of my wife Connie and me.
But instead of a goofy memento of how we might look after a lifetime of living, laughing, and loving, the filter shows my smiling wife standing in front of my freshly dug grave. And with her is an unknown older guy who clearly has his hand on the small of her back.
Like, what?
Not only that, but Connie has barely aged in the photo. She’s got a couple of extra laugh lines, and that’s it. Is the filter implying I’ll be dead in four to ten years and that she’ll be dating before my body is cold?
What is currently taking place in Palestine is not yet a religious war, but some Israeli officials and political parties are keen on turning it into one.
The post Quest for Religious War: How Israel is Unifying Arabs and Muslims around Palestine appeared first on MintPress News.
One of the big selling points of crypto, privacy, is rapidly disappearing.
On this week’s Lever Time, David talks with the political activist about the 2024 presidential election and the political media industrial complex.
Tommy Greene reports on the ongoing impact of the Troubles on communities in the era after the peace process
Exclusive Twitter Files emails and publicly available documents show Mehdi Hasan's accusation is false.
The post Lee Fang: MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan Gets Basic Facts Wrong on DHS Content Moderation Partnership appeared first on scheerpost.com.
By David Swanson / World BEYOND War The New York Times routinely tells bigger lies than the clumsy nonsense it published about weapons in Iraq. Here’s an example. This package of lies is called “Liberals Have a Blind Spot on Defense” but mentions nothing related to defense. It simply pretends that militarism is defensive by applying that word […]
The post New York Times Is Now Telling Bigger Lies Than Iraq WMDs and More Effectively appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Though it’s right to impugn the whims of Elon Musk, the outrage against Twitter’s labeling policy is highly selective.
The post US Media Denounce Twitter’s ‘State Media’ Label—When It Affects NPR appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Britain has three times more special ops soldiers in Ukraine than any other NATO ally, leaked Pentagon papers indicate.
The post US Intel Leak Reveals 50 Elite British Troops in Ukraine appeared first on scheerpost.com.
The limited nature of the US President's Northern Ireland visit stands in stark contrast to the scenes on the other side of the border, writes Emma DeSouza
By Kevin Gosztola / The Dissenter Elected politicians in Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and the United Kingdom signed on to letters to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the Justice Department drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. A letter of opposition signed by four members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic showed how important child care is for allowing parents to participate in the workforce. Access and affordability remain a challenge.
Sam Bright reveals how the Russian Ambassador to the UK claimed the owner of the Independent and Evening Standard had “much contributed to strengthening Russian-British relations”
Culture, identity, ethnicity, gender, and religiosity should never be accepted as a basis for intolerance in political and civic aspects. In a modern democratic society, people belonging to these different groups must be able to rely on society to protect them against the abuses of intolerance. All citizens must have the freedom and right to […]