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The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting war with Tehran. The think tank was originally founded to “enhance Israel’s image,” and partners closely with the Israeli government. The Trump Administration appeared to plagiarize its official justification for its war on Iran, copying almost word-for-word a document originally produced by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), a pro-war think tank with close ties […]
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These paleontologists got crafty
The post How a Simulated Dinosaur Nest Revealed Prehistoric Parenting Strategies appeared first on Nautilus.
When’s the last time you thought about your thymus?
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They’re an evolutionary feat all of their own
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As Habermas sees it, then, the issue between him and Foucault concerns their respective stances vis-a-vis modernity. Habermas locates his own stance in the tradition of dialectical social criticism that runs from Marx to the Frankfurt school. This tradition analyzes modernization as a two-sided historical process and insists that although Enlightenment rationality dissolved premodern forms […]
An interview with a behavioral economist about cake, climate change, and cooperation
The post Heat Probably Doesn’t Make You More Aggressive appeared first on Nautilus.
A common microbe can wreak havoc once inside cells
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“We won. The first hour, it was over.”
— Donald Trump, March 11
“The Pentagon has asked for $200 billion in funding for the war in Iran.”
— The New York Times, March 19
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I am proud to announce that we have won the war—the one we’re fighting right now, indefinitely. We have declared victory, which will help morale during the next few years of battle. In fact, we won this war so well that we need about 200 billion of your tax dollars to keep winning it.
Look, we don’t want to waste your money. That’s why we vowed to make this a quick war, and we’ve followed through on that promise. The first hour, it was over. The second hour too. First week, over again. Next week, we’ll be wrapping up. In a couple months, we’ll have finished this war more times than any war has ever been finished before.
This is a guest post from Prof. Marc Lavoie, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and winner of the 2025 Galbraith Prize from the Progressive Economics Forum for his lifetime contributions to heterodox theory and practice in Canada and around the world. Prof. Lavoie was recently invited by SSHRC to provide input to a restructuring of the [...]
A midbrain bypass may have unlocked their abilities to speak
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The Green Party has accused Keir Starmer of enabling the war on Iran, calling on the government to withdraw permission for the United States to use British bases and end its military cooperation with Israel. In a major intervention on Friday, seven Green MPs and peers sent a letter to the Prime Minister denouncing his […]
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Andre Agassi’s longtime racket stringer on seeking perfection and listening closely.
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PART I
THE BELIEVER: What was it like when you first began working as a pro racket stringer? And how did you meet Andre Agassi?
With the Strait of Hormuz closed and US munitions dwindling, it is Iran that will ultimately be able to set the price of peace, argues US defence analyst Brynn Tannehill
Come on in, and please take your shoes off. Here’s my card, and oh, just one minor thing, it’s so funny, but I have to tell you this again: I can’t say another word about the vast system of tunnels underneath this home.
How about a quick overview? It has three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, and a four-foot-wide ventilation air shaft, which is completely up to code for below-ground air circulation. It’s for the religious sect living in the network of tunnels. Ugh, sorry. Am I being too technical? I promise not to bore you with any more details about how they obtain fresh air.
What else? The home was built in 1954 and is anywhere from 2,000 to 70,000 square feet, depending on how many of the underground prayer labyrinths you include. Which I can’t and won’t say more about on this tour.
The US President's reckless actions risk destroying the global political order, but could something good emerge from the wreckage, asks Alexandra Hall Hall
Six weeks have passed since Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s chief of staff and strategic guru, stepped aside in the wake of the Mandelson debacle. Already the air smells fresher in Downing Street. Had McSweeney and Mandelson remained in situ, it is hard to imagine the Prime Minister keeping even a partial distance from Donald Trump […]
The word can morph from noun to verb to adjective, from dog to human, from female to male. What will it do next?
- by Karen Stollznow
Donald Trump has unleashed weeks of savage bombing of Iran, threatening “death, fire and fury” as the regime refuses to capitulate.
The post Albanese joins Trump’s war in Iran—time to break the US alliance first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The Minns government in NSW is attempting to ban the phrase “Globalise the Intifada”, with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan also saying she hopes to prosecute people using it.
The post Why we need to defy ban on Globalise the Intifada first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Two protesters in Queensland were arrested for using the slogan “From the River to the Sea” at a rally on 11 March—the day new laws that ban the phrase came into effect. One of them now faces charges which carry the threat of two years’ jail.
The post Defiance needed to new laws meant to silence Palestine solidarity first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Supporters of Palestine were banned from this year’s Mardi Gras parade and thrown off floats by police, continuing the climate of repression created by NSW Premier Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws.
The post Palestine supporters assaulted and kicked out of Mardi Gras first appeared on Solidarity Online.
One Nation is surfing a wave of anger and disillusionment with the major parties. Much of that momentum is fuelled by the cost-of-living crisis—but the party is also fomenting Islamophobia to harden up its supporters.
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