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@ChrisGiles (Financial Times) decided to have some fun by celebrating “The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts”, using Greece as the poster girl/boy of that exercise in futility, the EU’s most spectacular failure. With such friendly scribblers, Europe has no need for sworn enemies! His evidence? That Greece, the basket case of the euro crisis, reported […]

The post My reply to Chris Giles celebration of the eurozone bailouts in the Financial Times appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

CICADAS are enjoying a very big year in 2024 with their incessant daytime cacophony kicking off before the kookaburras and fizzling out after the frogs set-up their night time croaks. News Of The Area asked cicada expert Prof David Emery, what the song and dance is all about. Advertise with News of The Area today....

The post Coffs Coast a cacophony of cicada song appeared first on News Of The Area.

“IT all depends on you” is the clarion call to the community from a consortium of groups formed to raise $100,000 for Bellinger River District Hospital. It’s an ambitious goal, but the group’s members are driven by the hospital’s “wish list” of much needed equipment. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

The post Local consortium sets sights on raising $100k for Bellingen’s hospital appeared first on News Of The Area.

 

30 years of gender studies: anniversary special issue from "La Ventana", the journal of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Has thoughtful pieces by a range of scholars, from Mexico and beyond. I have an article in it, about the global picture. All open access!

 

https://revistalaventana.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/LV/issue/view/699

Today (December 13, 2024), MMTed releases Episode 9 in the Second Season of our Manga series – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money. Have a bit of fun with it while learning Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and circulate it to those who you think will benefit. The Smith Family is a middle-class family…

Every year, we pick someone to be our Person of the Year, and we put their face on the cover of our magazine. It’s, like, the big thing you know about us. And look, some years we pick incredible people. Folks who have lived their lives for the good of humanity: whistleblowers, silence breakers, Ebola fighters, and brave journalists. This is not one of those years. This year, we’ve decided to pick a person who absolutely fucking sucks.

The last time we went with an asshole was back in 2021. (And that guy’s only gotten worse.) Then, all the way back in 2022, we took a big long break from assholes. We did the “Spirit of Ukraine,” remember? You’re welcome for that. War solved. Case closed. In 2023, we chose Taylor Swift instead of, um, unions or something boring like that. And now, three years later, we feel like we’ve waited long enough. It’s time for another total fucking prick. Again.

You might ask, “Why give Person of the Year to someone who fucking sucks? Why reward them?”

Remember this? Probably not if you don’t watch Fox and I assume most of you do not. About that weaponization … If you spend much time watching Fox News, or if you look to social media sites such as X for information about American politics and the U.S. government, you have probably heard two specific claims over the past four years. First, that the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was fomented at least in part by government actors, including from the FBI. Second, that President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden took millions of dollars in bribes from a Ukrainian businessman. You’ve probably heard those claims because each offers a different lens into the purported corruption of the Biden administration and/or the governmental Deep State — and because right-wing media organizations such as Fox spent months amplifying them. That claim about the bribes, for example, was hyped by Fox host Maria Bartiromo alone hundreds of times. The agent provocateur allegations about the Capitol riot, meanwhile, were a staple of Tucker Carlson’s former Fox News show. Guess what? The DOJ inspector general released a report today showing it was all a lie.

The world voted to support the mandate of the UNRWA in Palestine, while Israel continues to ignore international law in Syria. Syrian born British journalists advises that the media has been lying about Syria while Francesca Albanese puts Gaza back on the table as it disappears from the news. UN votes for the support for Continue reading »

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I don’t know how to explain this to readers, but I’m going to try.

If you want to live in a good world or good society, certain types of behaviour have to be off the table and the response to them has to be harsh and overwhelming.

Understand the next statement: Anyone who will take what they want from someone else just because they are stronger is a threat to you.

The moment you say “none of my business” when someone abuses their power, you have created the conditions for Hell.

This is why certain behaviours have to be opposed. Genocide. Rape. Torture. Elites making the price of medicine a thousand times the cost.

And welcome to our annual victory celebration of the Great War on Christmas Yes, it’s that time of year again and the holidays have never been more welcome. If we ever needed a break it’s now. And here at Hullabaloo it’s the time of year I ask you, my loyal readers, to put a little something into the old stocking to keep us going for yet another year. This is a tough one, I know. Anyone can be forgiven for tuning out politics and spending their time doing something that doesn’t make them want to put their foot through the TV. Many people have cancelled their subscriptions to this site telling me that they just can’t stand to read about politics anymore and I totally understand it. For the first week after the election I pretty much only watched Netflix and Animal Planet. This is a grim time and we have to do whatever we can to keep our sanity. But it you are reading this it means that you are still engaging, at least with us, and I want you to know how grateful I am that you are. For me, it’s not possible to stop paying attention for long. It’s just who I am. I can’t look away.

From CNN interviews to glowing profiles, Western outlets are working overtime to frame Al-Qaeda’s Abu Mohammad al-Jolani as Syria’s new, diversity-friendly leader.

The post From ‘Terrorist’ to ‘Freedom Fighter’: How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani as Syria’s ‘Woke’ New Leader appeared first on MintPress News.

A little-noticed provision in the annual defense bill would bar the Pentagon from citing the Gaza Health Ministry as an authoritative source.

The post Congress Keeps Trying to Hide the True Gaza Death Toll appeared first on The Intercept.

The Opposition’s head cheer leader at The Australian, lil’ Simon Benson, has thanked his favourite person in the World, Daddy Dutton, for giving him the scoop on the Coalition’s alleged nuclear plan. ”I love you Daddy Dutton, you’re so much... Read More ›