On the latest episode of David Tennant Does a Podcast With…, Russell T. Davies discusses the next showrunner, the deal with Disney, and more.
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“Flights to Guantánamo Bay have begun. The worst of the worst have no place in our homeland.” With those words the U.S. government announced the fate awaiting “criminal aliens” in its custody. On a military base in El Paso, Texas, masked men in combat fatigues paraded a group of young Venezuelan immigrants, their hands cuffed and their ankles shackled, in front of the cameras, before loading them onto a waiting Air Force C-17, which was to deliver its human cargo to Naval Station Guantánamo Bay overnight. Once there, they were to be incarcerated in the infamous Camp 6, held incommunicado in the same cells where al-Qaeda suspects were once held in indefinite detention, and guarded by the 1st Battalion, 6th... Read more
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For all its chaos in operation, Trump's regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy…” — Elon Musk
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I see Musk’s point. Empathy is destroying Western civilization, which is why it’s good that he and DOGE got rid of all those USAID programs around the world. Fending off starvation in Ethiopia and providing clean water in Colombia was completely crippling Western civilization, taking away precious funds we should be using to buy crypto.
Thames Valley Police acknowledges arrest was unlawful but offers no formal apology as campaigner Symon Hill warns of 'wider struggle' to protect protest rights
The Employment Rights Bill has been described quite rightly by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary Paul Novak as a positive, ambitious expansion of workers’ and trade union rights in a generation. In contrast, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)’s Rupert Soames wants to warn that of this ‘highly damaging’ bill that risks discouraging […]
The banking system throws up many surprises — one of them is how savers inadvertently trap borrowers
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So, we’ve talked before about problems with Tesla. His competitors are, to put it simply, producing better cars which cost less, especially but not only the Chinese like BYD. Meanwhile Musk’s politics, like denying climate change and throwing a Nazi salute, while tying himself to Trump just as Trump is pissing off almost every country whose consumers buy Tesla vehicles has made customers a lot less interested in buying Tesla. He’s trashing his own brand with the people who supported it most.
Whatever happened to the notion that, faced with the enemies of democracy, we should fight their ideas but, equally, for their right to express them? The answer, unfortunately, is that it died an ignominious death on Sunday, as Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau, with the full support of the European Union’s liberal establishment, banned far-Right candidate Cǎlin Georgescu […]
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The real price of admission for Julie Mehretu’s Subprime Mortgage Mural.
“The Trump administration said Friday that it’s pulling $400 million from Columbia University, canceling grants and contracts because of what the government describes as the Ivy League school’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus.” — AP
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What with antisemitism on the rise again—we see it with the re-ascension of Donald Trump, the loosening of moderation on social media, and Netflix’s hiking its basic plan to cost Americans two dollars more a month to watch Seinfeld—you can’t blame American Jews like me for feeling a little uneasy. Until now, that is, as the Trump administration is finally making an example out of that longtime bastion of anti-Jewish fervor, Columbia University.
A judge said Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia graduate whose arrest by ICE sparked outrage, couldn’t be deported without a court order.
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How shifting seasons are altering allergies and agriculture
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What was ‘the Lukács Question’? Sometimes referred to as a ‘debate’ or an ‘affair’, the Lukács question was a reference in the 1950s to the resurfacing of attacks on Georg Lukács under the shadow of Stalinism, something that attracted the attention of Henri Lefebvre.
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AASECT, a respected institution in the field of sex education, became an unlikely battleground for the Israel Lobby. Whistleblower documents expose a relentless campaign to purge pro-Palestine voices, install pro-Israel leadership, and stifle dissent.
The post Sex, Politics, and Censorship: How a Sex Ed Organization Got Pulled Into the Israel-Palestine Conflict appeared first on MintPress News.
Feminism often presents itself as a force for liberation, but too often, it serves as a veneer for imperialism and oppression. In this special Project Censored discussion, Mnar Adley and Afeni Evans join Eleanor Goldfield to expose how mainstream feminism has been weaponized to justify war.
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Defence of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination is a collective responsibility fuelled by commitments to theory and ideology inherent in universalism. In domestic and foreign policies and in the conduct of personal relations, the values associated with universalism concern altruism and inclusiveness, each goal delivered in a spirit of generosity. In Continue reading »
No issue in the forthcoming election is as important as Australia’s international identity and the crisis in the Western alliance about its senior partner, the United States. The alliance is fragmenting and, it appears, President Trump is daring Europe to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression independently. He wants NATO members to double their defence spending Continue reading »
It feels funny. Here I am, supposedly writing a book about the climate catastrophe as my house, street, town, and region are being buffeted by a category 2 cyclone. Cyclone Alfred. It’s not the first time I’ve experienced the onslaught of extreme weather events while living in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. During 10 Continue reading »