While we should not expect too much of an incoming Labour government, we should not forget just how dark the last few years have been, writes Chris Grey
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The Conservatives are about to pay the price for 14 years of epic misrule. But while a Labour 'supermajority' is in the best interests of the country, it is no guarantee of a return to stability, argues Simon Nixon
Sometimes when I am reading some story or analysis about the economy I sense a sort of glazing over effect – I just read the words as they appear on the paper and it is not until after I have read the entirety that I sort of have to pinch myself and realise that this…
Aaaaand this from someone who has been leading the piranha press pack: That’s where we are right now folks. I just don’t think Biden in his weakened condition can fight both Trump and this rabid media and win. One hope now is that if he drops out that the press will feel at least slightly chagrined and will turn the same laser focus on Trump’s unfitness. I’m not holding my breath.
They are applying “the cackle” to Kamala Harris already. It was a common description of Hillary Clinton. And it wasn’t Republicans who came up with it. From 2008: This just in: Hillary Clinton has been laughing a lot lately. Yes, it’s true — a candidate long accused of being cold and unappealing has taken to emitting a hearty chuckle in public, and on the airwaves. We hope you were sitting down for that one. Actually, in this highly-monitored campaign, the decisions of its most-disciplined and most-focus-grouped candidate are news, and the Hillary Laugh Tactic has been noticeable. Jon Stewart picked up on it in earlier this week, splicing laugh segments together (in a way that, let’s be honest, would make anyone appear manic), but it certainly set up the punchline: Jon fixing the camera with an intense, humorless gaze and saying “I’M JOYFUL.” Frank Rich noted it too: “Now Mrs. Clinton is erupting in a laugh with all the spontaneity of an alarm clock buzzer.” And then, of course, there was The Cackle.
Activists who protested Biden’s handling of the war during Democratic primaries say they will maintain pressure no matter the nominee.
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Issue 56 of the Nautilus print edition combines some of the best content from our May and June 2024 online issues. It includes contributions from film director Walter Murch, documentary filmmaker Chris Foster, language scientist Julie Sedivy, science writer Amanda Gefter, and more. This issue also features a new illustration by Chris Buzelli.
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A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.
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Sorry, Village media… This issue is not going away no matter how much the media wants to sound the Democratic party’s death knell: By the way, Ed Martin was fired from CNN for being a racist. Interesting they didn’t mention that. Aaaaand this…. It does not sound like the anti-abortion zealots are on board with Trump’s inane “everyone always wanted it to go to the states” construction. We know what they want. And they don’t think they need to shut about it just to help Trump win. By the way, the RNC has chosen three right wing extremists to write the party platform in secret. Martin is one, and one of the others is Russ Vought, who I wrote about in depth here. The third member of the secret committee is this guy: They seem like a great bunch of guys.
Reality TV juggernauts (sic), Dancing With The Stars and I’m A Celeb are locked in to a do or die battle over securing the signature of internet sensation, the Hawk Tuah girl to appear on their shows this year while... Read More ›
How a Conservative campaign line became the weaponised mantra of the Daily Mail – and infected the entire general election campaign
Media Matters has this: Right-wing commentators are praising former President Donald Trump for managing to “keep his mouth shut” and “remaining completely silent” after President Joe Biden’s June 27 debate performance, which triggered widespread concern about Biden’s fitness for office and ability to win reelection. “Donald Trump has run the most disciplined campaign, maybe, over the last 25 years,” Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade said on July 3. “The fact that he is laying out during this whole news cycle shows a discipline at a whole new level.” That strategically silent, disciplined Trump does not exist. Since the debate, the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly promoted calls from his supporters to jail his perceived political enemies for “treason” and other purported crimes. On Sunday, Trump “ReTruthed” a post calling for former Rep.
China Matters has gone, and that is a tragedy. Australia lost a valuable think tank that could provide policy advice at a critical juncture of Australia-China relations. The implementation of the government hatchet job is set out in detail in Margaret Simon’s extended article, Red Flags, in the latest Monthly, and in Hamish McDonald’s article Continue reading »
Instead of concern about continuing slaughter in Gaza and the West Bank, the major controversy surrounding Senator Payman’s support for a Palestinian state and for Palestinians’ lives has focused on her non-compliance with rules and discipline in the Labor caucus. That seems astounding. When observing end of time massacres by the Israeli state, why does Continue reading »
New modern coal and gas generation might be the best options if the main aim of policy was containing the cost of energy. However, even an expensive means of reducing greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions should be acceptable if we have an obligation to benefit future generations. We are the ‘pivotal generation’ according to Henry Shue, Continue reading »
China claims sovereignty over roughly 62% of the South China Sea (SCS) as delineated by a nine-dash line first published on a Chinese map in 1947. Taiwan makes the same claim which was reiterated by its former leader Chiang Kai-shek in 1943 when he governed China as a whole. China says that its maritime activity Continue reading »
Australia’s public hospitals cost too much and achieve too little. Soaring costs threaten to drown state finances while abandoning patients. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In Victoria and Tasmania, hospital managers are cutting jobs. At the Alfred in Melbourne, staff are told to turn the lights out. Costs are increasing exponentially because Continue reading »