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While waiting for the EU’s response to the Trump Shock (don’t hold your breath for evidence of intelligent life from Brussels…), those of you who really want to worry about something big, turn your attentions to perhaps the largest threat for the status quo – greater than tariffs, equities, bond prices etc. What is that? […]
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This is a crucial conversation to have in general, not particularly about Marine Le Pen. It is about the principled position that the democratic Left must take on the question of who has the right to remove the political rights (the right to vote and to seek votes) of whom. We know what can happen […]
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April 9th, 2025:
7 April 2025 was
the launch date for the report of the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health. I'm a
co-author, along with the colleagues listed below - an international network,
who have been working on this project since 2020. The process was interrupted and
delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic - which itself brought important issues
about gender and global health to the surface. The Report is a 66-page document with a main narrative and a variety of illustrative cases of policies, programmes and problems. The UK City of Culture initiative was founded in 2009, a year after Liverpool — like Bradford, often unfairly derided by outsiders — benefitted from being European Capital of Culture, and was intended to bring investment and tourism, as well as an increased sense of civic pride, to cities who successfully bid for it, once […] “President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what happened… Most historians look back on Smoot-Hawley as a mistake that made a bad economic climate much worse. But tariffs have a new champion in President Donald Trump.” – AP News, 4/8/25 Let’s face it: America is struggling. Gone are the days of the “Roaring Twenties” when the economy was booming, America was a manufacturing powerhouse, and gals with bob haircuts spun around speakeasy dance floors in those fun little dresses. There’s only one way to return to those glory days and make America great again, and that is why I, extremely popular and generally well-regarded president, Herbert Hoover, am signing this massive tariff bill into law. A legacy of the most hated bird in America The post The Starlings’ Curious Odyssey appeared first on Nautilus. Under public pressure, an Israeli network censored a report which would have exposed a key face of Israel’s October 7 PR campaign as a fabulist. Rami Davidian claimed to have rescued over 750 young Israelis and witnessed hideous scenes of rape by Hamas. His bogus testimonies were cited by the UN and filmmaker Sheryl Sandberg. Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 has announced that it will no longer air an investigation into the fabrications of Rami Davidian, a settler who was lionized […] The post Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer first appeared on The Grayzone. The post Israeli network censors report exposing Oct 7 ‘hero’ as hoaxer appeared first on The Grayzone. Meta’s recruitment of vast numbers of former Israeli soldiers raises serious questions about the tech giant’s commitment to free speech – and provides a peek into a biased content moderation process that’s been heavily censoring pro-Palestinian accounts amid the Israeli siege of Gaza. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers work for tech giant Meta, including its head of AI policy, who served in the IDF under an Israeli […] The post 100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDF first appeared on The Grayzone. The post 100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDF appeared first on The Grayzone. Trump’s March 25 declassification order revives buried documents showing the Steele dossier was debunked by insiders before it ever hit the press — yet it was promoted as fact anyway. The post Leaked Files Reveal the Steele Dossier Was Discredited in 2017 — But Sold to the Public Anyway appeared first on MintPress News. “President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plans hammered global financial markets and U.S. stocks braced for more turmoil on Monday, after he warned foreign governments they would have to pay ‘a lot of money’ to lift the levies he called ‘medicine.’” — Reuters I know it hurts. I can hear the screams, the crumpling metal. I’m not deaf. I’m an iceberg. What I need from you right now, RMS Titanic, is less screeching and more patience. After the fine bone china settles a few inches into the pelagic sediment, you’ll appreciate the mid-ocean meet-cute we’re experiencing. Believe me, I get it. Trump’s attacks on the courts and Big Law are an existential threat to the legal system. Expect a reckoning. The post The Clear and Present Danger to the American Rule of Law appeared first on The Intercept. From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country’s Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers — cowboys and Indians, British marching troops in red jackets, and plastic Army-green World War II soldiers (from my father’s war) — and those Landmark Books on American history that I piled up on my floor to create hills and valleys where I could play out the cowboy and Indian ambushes and battles I had seen at local movie theaters, my favorites were always the blue and grey lead soldiers of the Union and Confederacy, including Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant on... Read more Source: President Bankrupt appeared first on TomDispatch.com. | ||