When the Office of Digital Learning transitioned out of the university and to a new nonprofit organization created to expand the reach of the University of Oklahoma’s online programs, we had an opportunity to rethink and expand our role under a new name. The decision to adopt the moniker Academic Innovation was more than a […]
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A campaign to punish a small independent theater for screening No Other Land is just the latest move in Miami Beach’s growing crackdown on Palestine solidarity, making the city a model for nationwide suppression.
The post How Miami Beach Became a Lab for Pro-Israel Censorship Laws appeared first on MintPress News.
The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now
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So fuckin’ like, in those dahk medieval times, the Vikings were goin’ bonkahs all ovah the fuckin’ place n’ both men n’ women thought it was wicked awesome tah wield weapons. N’ I guess that isn’t exactly too fuckin’ new; it’s just that we had a multi-centuhry chunk’ah time between then n’ now in which it was really fuckin’ frowned upon in the womens’ case. But it’s impohrtant tah remembah that we’re talkin’ ’bout spee’ahs, swohrds, n’ axes—shit like that. Not semi-automatics ah explosive fuckin’ ohrdinances. The Vikings nevah cahred fahr that shit n’ they still don’t, even if the eastuhrn trade routes kindah fuckin’ backfi’ahd on ’em n’ now Stockholm’s got violence tah rival that’ah Chicago ah LA.
Claims that migration organisations are controlled by 'Zionist-type people' remain online despite growing complaints
A fusion of polemic, anecdote, and theory, Ash Sarkar’s Minority Rule — her first published book — is a journey through the perilous frontierland of identity politics. Originally used as a way of conceptualising the oppression of individuals by way of race, gender, and sexuality, the identitarian creed has since been removed from its anti-capitalist roots, […]
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Police records obtained by The Intercept show Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests and other constitutionally protected speech.
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If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to "normal" they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson
Universities have turned the complaints process into a 'warning not to challenge the behaviour of men and the institutions that protect them', reports Mathilda Mallinson
Here are two groups of Western philosophers. We’ll call them Group A and Group B. Here’s Group A: Plato, Epicurus, Plotinus, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz, David Hume, Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Schopenhauer, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kurt Gödel, Karl Popper, Jeremy Bentham, Alan Turing, Saul Kripke. […]
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This is the second part of the discussion on Tariffs that I started in – Tariffs and more – Part 1 (March 13, 2025). In the first part I considered some of the historical motivations including the infant industry argument. Today, I plan to expand on that discussion and add further considerations that might help…
It is 22 years since Rachel Corrie was killed by the Israeli military as she defended a Palestinian home against a bulldozer. Adam Bandt on ABC’s Insiders says the priority should be to end AUKUS. Bombing continues in Yemen where Ansar Allah is maintaining a blockade in the Red Sea. The Australia Institute calls out Continue reading »
Some years ago, I faced up to the futility of reporting true things about America’s disastrous wars and so I left Afghanistan for another remote mountainous country far away. It was the polar opposite of Afghanistan: a peaceful, prosperous land where nearly everybody seemed to enjoy a good life, on the job and in the family. It’s true that they didn’t work much, not by American standards anyway. In the U.S., full-time salaried workers supposedly laboring 40 hours a week actually average 49, with almost 20% clocking more than 60. These people, on the other hand, worked only about 37 hours a week, when they weren’t away on long paid vacations. At the end of the work day, about four in the afternoon (perhaps three in... Read more Peter Dutton’s shadow minister for home affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has begged his leader to take him off the bench and get him back on the campaign trail, claiming that he is the only one able to bring the ladies back... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 16, 2025 By Tony Wikrent
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Russell T. Davies (Doctor Who) sent a warning signal to the LGBTQ community about the dangers that Donald Trump and Elon Musk represent.
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