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How the "separation barrier" changed everything.
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“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it.” There are many, many stupid things to read today. But that has to be the dumbest. Trump is promising not to automate America’s ports on behalf of the East Coast Longshoreman’s union. (The West Coast union already made a deal to accommodate it but I guess they don’t know what they’re doing.) I posted about this yesterday but it’s worth doing it again in light of his bragging about his vast knowledge of how the supply chain works: You know, the supply chain is still broken. It’s broken. You see it. You go out to the docks and you see all these containers. And I own property in California, in Palos Verdes. They’re very nice. And I passed the docks, and I’ve been doing it for 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like it. You know, for 17 years, I saw containers and, you know, they’d come off and they’d be taken away—big areas, you know, you know, in that area, you know, where they have the big, the big ships coming in—big, the port.
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The U.S. government claims that CIA analyst Asif Rahman's alleged disclosure of Israel's reported plans to attack Iran caused it to delay the attack.
By Chip Gibbons: thedissenter.org
A U.S. magistrate judge rejected the government's request to hold CIA employee Asif Rahman in jail
How friendship with long-dead thinkers can help us live better.
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A Mexican artist rediscovers a lost color sacred to his ancestors.
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After the murder of health insurance executive Brian Thompson, the industry is facing a public reckoning. Will it be enough to deliver change?
Look, I want to make one thing clear: I’m not a selfish guy. I’m all for my employees discovering themselves and finding true love. The first time one of my top correspondents emailed out of the blue to say she’d decided to move to a tiny mountain town and take over a struggling antique shop, I said, “Good for you.” The second time it happened, this time with a struggling breakfast diner in an off-season tourist town, I was surprised, but I also said, “Good for you.”
But after the third and fourth times, I began to worry that a pattern was developing. And the twenty-sixth time an employee emailed me a no-notice resignation on account of having discovered both her soulmate and her passion for veterinary work in the quaint English village where I had sent her (all expenses paid) on assignment, I have to admit that I was less than pleased. Her email informed me that she was happy to forfeit her year-end bonus and the extremely competitive promotion she’d been up for because she was going off Wi-Fi forever, effective immediately. Last I knew, she didn’t even have a dog.
American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and with Iran on the brink of a nuclear arsenal. In the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, Continue reading »
In the wake of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s 6-hour coup, Western pundits have opined that this was an affirmation of South Korean democracy’s robustness and resilience, its institutional maturity and strength. This is like saying after a survivor fights off an assault, that this demonstrates a mature state of legal order. Hardly. It Continue reading »
Medhurst was born in Damascus, Syria. His father is English and mother is Syrian. Both his parents served in United Nations Peacekeeping and Observer missions and were among the UN Peacekeepers awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. Medhurst was born in Damascus, Syria. His father is English and mother is Syrian. Both his parents Continue reading »
“The first thing we’ll do is sack those 36000 public servants in Canberra” – David Littleproud, leader of Australia’s National Party. Donald Trump’s Cabinet is fraying at the edges before it gets down to business. Matt Gaetz surrendered the Attorney-General offer and Chad Chronister, fingered to be the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, self-ejected. Continue reading »
Government spending is keeping Australia out of recession, just as last week’s feeble GDP numbers tallied 7 consecutive quarters of negative growth. Michael Pascoe reports on the moaning business lobby. A funny thing happened after Wednesday’s weak national accounts figures: a large part of the economic commentariat poured scorn on government spending and investment for keeping the Continue reading »
In his acceptance speech after Labor won the 2022 election, Anthony Albanese promised to look after disadvantaged and vulnerable citizens. During the cost of living crisis over the past two years he told people he felt their pain and had their backs. He just inverted these assurances with a $600 million handout to one of Australia’s Continue reading »
Some of the most dangerous people in the world right now are those normalising and sanitising fascistic politics. It was not just in the banal media discussion that preceded Donald Trump’s re-election; it can also be found at the ABC, including on Radio National lifestyle programming. One of the tropes to look for is the Continue reading »
In 2019, I was Australia’s Consul-General in Makassar, and I remember meeting a group of Muslim Australians from western Sydney: they were planning to make a film about the Makassar-Northern Australia relationship. Their leader was Sheikh Wesam Charkawi, a tall, bearded man of middle-age, in haji cap and long white robes. Sheikh Wesam was born Continue reading »
The decision by Australia’s federal Opposition leader to avoid standing by the Aboriginal flag is a dangerously divisive and cynical move. In case he has not noticed the current Australian flag includes the Union Jack which symbolises an extremely controversial period in our history. Senator Lidia Thorpe recently drew attention to the negative impacts of Continue reading »
Although sponsored by Republicans, the new Crucial Communism Teaching Act bill enjoys widespread support from Democrats. Focused on China, Venezuela, Cuba and other targets of US empire, critics warn it will be used to promote war in public schools.
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