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Sukdhev, the mother of Ricky Reel, addresses police racism, sexism, and surveillance in the UK after the botched investigation into the suspected 1997 murder of her son by racist attackers.

The post Lowkey and Sukhdev Reel Talk Justice for Ricky Reel appeared first on MintPress News.

The EU pins its hopes to LNG.

Don’t say a word about your Monday Visual images of collapsing and collapsed buildings are horrible. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and Syria before dawn Monday. A severe aftershock struck at midday. Early numbers (headlines keep shifting) are over 1,500 dead and climbing, per a Guardian report: CNN meteorologist Chad Myers explained what makes this type of quake different from those that strike the Pacific Rim: The 7.5 aftershock was “an earthquake in itself,” Myers told CNN’s This Morning. “It would have been the strongest earthquake since 1999 in the region.” We always talk about the epicenter, but in this case we should talk about the epi-line. Two massive tectonic plates – the Arabian and the Eurasian – meet underneath Turkey’s southeastern provinces. Along this fault line, “about 100 miles from one side to the other, the earth slipped,” said Myers.  Seismologists refer to this event as a “strike slip” – “where the plates are touching, and all of a sudden they slide sideways,” said Myers.

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In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: SNL, The Flash, Star Trek: Lower Decks & Strange New Worlds, Loki, Doctor Who, Quantum Leap, and more!

Matthew Gwyther looks at the public's contradictory ideas of leadership and how women are (on the whole) confounding them

Apologies for the brief photo hiatus. Stuff going on. Anyway, here are some cranes.

Στην Αβάνα, προσκεκλημένος της Κουβανικής κυβέρνησης, ανέλυσα τη μετάβαση από το νεο-ιμπεριαλιστικό μοντέλο, με το οποίο ο παγκόσμιος καπιταλισμός κέρδισε τον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο (1971-2008), στο σημερινό τεχνοφεουδαρχικό μοντέλο το οποίο πυροδοτεί έναν Νέο Ψυχρό Πόλεμο – κι ο οποίος, με τη σειρά του, καθιστά απολύτως αναγκαίο ένα Νέο Κίνημα Αδεσμεύτων που θα επεξεργαστεί, και θα […]

The post Η ανατομία του Νέου Ψυχρού Πολέμου, η μετεξέλιξη του καπιταλισμού κι η ανάγκη για ένα Νέο Κίνημα Αδεσμεύτων – Ομιλία στην Κούβα appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

How much of Shell’s record US $40 billion profit was due to the Ukraine war and freezing Russia out of the market? If you apply the “excess deaths” methodology we became familiar with during covid, comparing profit against a running average of the previous five years, we get a figure of about $25 billion “excess […]

The post Profiteering from Death appeared first on Craig Murray.

Today marks Global Day of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier.

The post After 46 Years of Imprisonment, It’s Time to Free Leonard Peltier  appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Το 2022 μας έφερε πόλεμο, μας έφερε ακρίβεια, νέα υποχώρηση δημοκρατικών θεσμών, νέες κακουχίες για τους πολλούς εν μέσω πανηγυρισμών και απίστευτης αισχροκέρδειας των πολύ λίγων, μας έφερε όμως και κοντά σε ανθρώπους που αντιστέκονται, που οι αγώνες τους μας ενδυναμώνουν, μας εμψυχώνουν έτσι ώστε το 2023 να κάνουμε αυτά που πρέπει να κάνουμε υπέρ […]

The post Η εκτίμηση του ΜέΡΑ25 για την κρίσιμη εκλογική χρονιά που αρχίζει appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

Unable to inflict their desired amount of damage on Russia, the EU and NATO are aiming for a consolation prize: Serbia. 

Broken windows policing reflects racialized assumptions about what is disorder and which communities are disorderly.

The post ‘Broken Windows Policing’ Gave Rise to SCORPION Unit That Killed Tyre Nichols appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Critics slam SoCal air regulator for adopting weak emissions rules for the potent carcinogen ethylene oxide.

The post Southern California Regulators Let Industrial Polluters Exceed U.S. EPA Guidelines appeared first on scheerpost.com.

The Journal of the History of Philosophy has awarded its 2022 best article prize to Karolina Hübner (Cornell). Professor Hübner won the prize, which recognizes the best article published in the journal in 2022, for her, “Representation and Mind-Body Identity in Spinoza’s Philosophy“. Here’s the abstract of the article: The paper offers a new reading of Spinoza’s claim that minds and bodies are “one and the same thing,” commonly understood as a claim about the identity of a referent under two different descriptions. This paper proposes instead that Spinoza’s texts and his larger epistemological commitments show that he takes mind-body identity to be (1) an identity grounded in an intentional relation, and (2) an identity of one thing existing in two different ways. The prize comes with an award of $1500. A list of previous winners of the award can be found here. (via Deborah Boyle)

Tickets have gone on sale this morning for four new shows in June: Painswick; Corsham; Swindon; and Bristol. There will be poems, ruminations, and a minimum of two laughs or your money back. More info is here: brianbilston.com/events/

The foundation behind a $20 million Christian Super Bowl ad campaign has funded a group fighting to limit abortion access and allow anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination.

There is intense violence and reverent spirituality coexisting side by side in the West African martial art called ‘dambe’

- by Aeon Video

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From 5,000-year-old boardgames to last year’s video-game blockbusters, all games feature a kind of collaborative conflict

- by Eric Zimmerman

Read at Psyche

Clear and direct telepathic communication is unlikely to be developed. But brain-to-brain links still hold great promise

- by Gary Lupyan & Andy Clark

Read at Aeon

Community wealth building initiatives are taking hold in cities across the world, strengthening worker pay, local economies and democracy.

The post How Worker Ownership Builds Community Wealth and a More Just Society appeared first on scheerpost.com.

The mainstream textbook concept of money multiplier assumes that banks automatically expand the credit money supply to a multiple of their aggregate reserves.  If the required currency-deposit reserve ratio is 5%, the money supply should be about twenty times larger than the aggregate reserves of banks.  In this way, the money multiplier concept assumes that […]