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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:11

It’s been ten months of genocide in Gaza, and it’s been seventy-six years of denial of Palestinian rights, of ethnic cleansing, of occupation, and of Israeli state and settler brutality. The term ‘devastation’ does not cover the situation now facing people in the Strip. In its latest assault, Israel has systematically targeted education and health […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:10

In December 2023, Ndileka Mandela, the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, condemned the rich world for supporting a global system of ‘climate apartheid’. Speaking at the COP28 summit in the United Arab Emirates, Mandela stated that the term ‘apartheid’ was appropriate to describe the impact of climate breakdown because ‘the Global North a using their economic […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:09

Knocking on the door of Number 10 even as the new regime moves in is a crisis requiring the prime minister’s most urgent attention: Britain’s housing emergency. Before the election, Keir Starmer’s deputy, Angela Rayner, promised action in the ‘first days and weeks in office’. Housing didn’t make it into Starmer’s pre-election ‘first steps’ promises […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:07

There are few events more pivotal in modern history than the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, which between March 1987 and June 1988 witnessed Cuban, Namibian, and Angolan soldiers fight against the South African Defence Force (SADF) in the largest military confrontation in Africa since the end of the Second World War. The clash overwhelmed the […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:06

‘PLEASE look at these pictures. Please think about them. That is not too much to ask. We — you and I — are the fortunate ones. At most we need only to look at pictures and read the news. But the people of Vietnam live (and die, many of them) with these horrors from day to day.’ Tribune’s […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:05

Like a surprising number of British teenagers during the 1980s, Trish Keenan had become consumed by a black-and-white, nostalgic vision of Britain’s recent past. ‘I was obsessed with the kitchen sink idea of the 60s,’ Keenan told The Wire magazine in 2009. ‘I felt umbilically connected with it because of my upbringing. It was the […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:04

The programme looks like a normal news broadcast at first. A series of ordinary people are filmed sitting in their living rooms or standing in parks, giving testimony in straightforward but subtly grave tones. They’ve all narrowly survived death after being struck by lightning. An expert is called on to explain how electricity enters the […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:04

‘We have not only cut off heads, as the Mensheviks and the Kautskys in all countries accuse us of doing; we have also enlightened heads. Many heads.’ This is Lenin, in the early 1920s, talking about the importance of ‘culture’ and education in the creation of a socialist society. It’s an example of Lenin’s brusque […]

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Sat, 03/08/2024 - 00:03

Much has been made on the Western left, for good reason, about the Chilean artists and writers who were killed during the CIA-backed counter-revolution of September 1973 and its aftermath, or who devoted their work in exile to criticising Augusto Pinochet’s far-right dictatorship. Poet Pablo Neruda and musician Víctor Jara are rightly seen as martyrs; […]

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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 23:52

The staging is neat. President Emmanuel Macron interrupts the night of the European elections to address the nation. He is right that the situation is serious: Renaissance, his centrist party, has just suffered a heavy defeat, garnering only 14.6 percent of the votes cast, a long way behind the far-right Rassemblement National (RN), which came […]

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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 23:00
When the going gets tough TFG has had many bad weeks, but the last couple have been especially bad. Vice President Kamala Harris now leads in some national and swing state polls. President Joe Biden’s success in winning (hear that word, Donnie?) the release of prisoners held in Russia has TFG flummoxed. His “unmitigated caucasity” (as a friend put it) in explaining blackness to the National Association of Black Journalists has neither won him friends nor expanded his voting base. Now the orange-hued, former wrestling promoter is trying to brand Harris as dumb and — xenophobia being his signature chokeslam — as failed “Border Czar Harris.” In TFG’s dim mind, the Biden approach is both weak and dumb. Actual data undercut that argument, Greg Sargent observes. Not that facts mean anything on the right. Border crossings have dropped for the fifth straight month per unpublished data obtained by CBS News and The New York Times, Sargent explains:  These numbers badly undermine Trump’s primary attack line on Harris—and not just in the most obvious way.
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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 22:49

Zionism Observer's relentless efforts reveal the IDF's use of Alkasheff Gaza to spread fear and disunity among Palestinians as the site resurfaces despite repeated shutdowns. Kit Klarenberg investigates.

The post Zionism Observer vs IDF: The Battle to Shut Down Israel’s Toxic Website Extorting Gaza’s Civilians appeared first on MintPress News.

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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 22:00

I receive my Call to Adventure in the form of a text. It is not from a real person. It states that a prescription beginning with INS is ready.

The Call to Adventure comes at an inconvenient time. I am inhabiting my Ordinary World, which means I am having a snack and don’t have pants on. Plus, it is 7:58 p.m. and I am pretty sure the CVS cut more staff and reduced its hours. Also, I am not feeling 100 percent and it is only Tuesday. I must Refuse the Call.

A Mentor appears. He says his name is Lodi. He looks like a very famous mentor, but not too much like him, since that mentor’s name and likeness are proprietary to LucasFilm International. I tell him that I have been to Lodi, a lovely town in Bergen County, and in fact I think I dated a girl from there when I was in high school. He tells me this is all an unfortunate coincidence, that the girl was from Englewood, and that in any event we are late to Cross the First Threshold.

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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 18:00
Jenny Chan, Sebastian Diz and Derrick Kanngiesser In recent years, increases in global energy prices have posed significant challenges for net energy importers such as the UK or the euro area. In addition to the inflationary impact, increases in the relative price of energy imply a decline in real incomes for the energy importers. In … Continue reading Monetary policy in a gas-TANK
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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 17:00
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Fri, 02/08/2024 - 14:54

ZONTA Club of Coffs Harbour Inc. has fulfilled one of its annual service projects, supporting the Warrina Women and Children’s Refuge. Zonta members provide much-needed items to Warrina, such as Exit Baskets filled with household items necessary for a new start when women and children leave the refuge for new accommodation. This year the club...

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