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...this is a war that will yield no victors and will, in guaranteed fashion, make a mockery of victory.

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How they spent their first week of business Following up on the post below, here’s Dana Milbank with a piece on the new House majorities first orders of business. I confess that I had not heard about the important vote to condemn the Russian Revolution, The Great Leap Forward and the Killing Fields. Frankly, I’m surprised any of the Republicans had even heard of these things but I’m sure their leadership told them it would like, totally own the libs so they enthusiastically signed on: A CNN poll last week found that about three-quarters of Americans, including nearly half of Republicans, think House Republican leaders aren’t paying enough attention to the country’s most pressing problems. So this week, GOP leaders set out to rectify the situation. They approved a resolution condemning the Russian Revolution. Of 1917.

By Nolan Higdon / Project Censored The increasing shift to remote work in higher education has threatened the power and influence of the professional managerial class (PMC). In response, the PMC are throwing everything at the wall from baseless claims about work productivity to coercive policies to cement their power over faculty. Coined by John and […]

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Those of you with gray hair certainly remember Dan Burton, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee during the Clinton years who famously conducted a “forensic experiment” in his backyard to prove that Clinton aide Vince Foster had been murdered (presumably by Hillary Clinton…) The experiment consisted of shooting a watermelon to see if it was feasible that Foster had actually committed suicide. Well, get ready for his heir, James Comer, the new Chairman of the House Oversight Committee: The man is giving Marjorie Taylor Greene a run for her money. The last I heard from these guys was that COVID is nothing worse than a cold and that it’s the vaccines that kill people. But whatever …

Following yesterday’s funeral of Cardinal George Pell, I was disturbed to read this from a Sydney Morning Herald letter writer: ‘I went to St Mary’s Cathedral to tie a ribbon on the iron fence for a friend who was raped by a priest when he was seven years old. My ribbons were cut off by Continue reading »

Pandemic stimulus not the cause. Fed runs its accustomed playbook to screw labor and reward capital based on junk economics.

Naked Capitalism
James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
James K. Galbraith | Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

Australia’s oceans, Greenland’s Ice Sheet and Antarctica’s sea ice are all feeling the heat. One million species are on the edge of extinction. No wonder life scientists are taking to the streets. Australia is in hot water Although the global warming that has occurred over the oceans is lower than the warming over land, about Continue reading »

What role is Australia playing in the diplomacy that ultimately will end the Ukraine conflict and prevent war over Taiwan? Even the most hawkish cannot seriously believe such conflicts will end militarily. The roll call of countries where the civilian population endures armed conflict is seemingly endless. When the conflict is primarily about a struggle Continue reading »

Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-right government’s reported response to the “terrorism” of the Palestinian who killed seven people at a synagogue in east Jerusalem on 27 January 2023 includes the likely collective punishment of the family of the attacker, such as loss of citizenship, house demolition and deportation. “Fair enough”, some might say. But the reality is Continue reading »

Australia needs a Royal Commission into its heinous, wasteful, privatised immigration detention policy. This is imperative in order to uncover immigration detention’s secrets, racism and appalling costs, to change public attitudes and to explore humane alternatives. Australian immigration detention’s 30-year anniversary largely passed last year without comment. Successive Governments have denied responsibility, facts and wrongdoing, Continue reading »

The difference that money makes: sovereignty, indecision and the politics of liquidity

Many well meaning participants genuinely opposed to religious oppression at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit this week in Washington will not realise that they are pawns in a US State Department geopolitical game. The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit this week in Washington, appears to be a great idea. Everyone in the world is Continue reading »

Bob Bowker’s recently published memoir enriches our understanding of the Middle East and reminds us that the corpse of the two-state solution in Israel-Palestine has been lying in the sun for years, though many countries, including Australia, determinedly hold their noses and avert their gaze. Diplomatic memoirs come in all shapes and sizes. Some offer Continue reading »

Same old, same old. The push for repeal began with the passage of the New Deal and the push won't end until it is repealed or effectively neutered by privatization. The push for austerity of which this is just a part risks another depression, and some would argue that it guarantees it.

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Danger Ahead: Mike Pence Would Pick Up Where Paul Ryan Left Off
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders

Milburn’s ‘Mozart Group’ said to have disbanded shortly after interview that discussed Ukrainian war crimes Retired US Marine Colonel Andy Milburn has reportedly claimed that a video in which he chatted about the ‘sick’, ‘fucked up’ acts he had seen in Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, including the murder of prisoners of war. Milburn’s […]

As long as we play along with the "solvency" game, Social Security is vulnerable to privatization.

Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining the Right on the vote.

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From backroom deals between Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs to US covert operations in Haiti, Tunisia, Italy and beyond, WikiLeaks revealed the dark underbelly of US power.

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I block their calls and they keep trying ♪ What’s the buzz? Tell me what’s a-happening ♪ Marcy’s right. If we called the Chinese inflatable a drone, it would be a very different conversation. While it’s not offically a drone, my buddy Barry Summers is on the case. It’s in the neighborhood this morning. No, I’m not going outside to look. Mark Hamill FTW.

Politicians fire teachers and ban books, but more and more Americans are standing up against this effort to erase our history.

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Now, if you you’re thinking–hey now, didn’t you already make the Greek Lamb Stew card? Well I did. But that was card 156. This is card 166. Greek Lamb Stew NOT in Eggplant Boats. Missing eggplant boats aside, the difference between the two seems to be black olives vs. okra/green beans and elbow macaroni. So,Continue reading 166. Greek Lamb Stew →

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The decision to allow US to access more Philippine military bases under the controversial EDCA deal has been criticized by progressive groups and activists.

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Federal funding lapsed in June 2022, forcing most public schools to charge all but the poorest students for food.

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