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“UK Parliamentarian DESTROYS Western War Propaganda” 23rd of March 2025 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fRekSG5p2U
- by Graham Lau
- by Sam Mills
If we truly want to strengthen Europe, the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union without which stagnation will continue to erode Europe’s capacities, rendering it unable to rebuild what is left of Ukraine once Vladimir Putin is finished with it. ATHENS – Inducting Ukraine into NATO after forcing […]
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Factory farms are blaming eggflation on animal welfare laws in an attempt to boost their margins and crush their competitors.
Unless the Labour party reconnects with its founding economic mission, they will merely lay the ground for a Nigel Farage Government, argues Neal Lawson
Today I’d like to talk about that delightful little companion of field and garden: the shrike. [copyright Rosemary Mosco, 2024, birdandmoon.com] If you know, you know. And if you don’t know… well, let’s talk about shrikes. Shrikes are a group of birds found across the tropics and the northern hemisphere. There are about 30 species, […]
Since the Academy Awards, the “No Other Land” filmmaker’s village in the West Bank has been targeted by Israeli settlers.
The post Attacks on Hamdan Ballal’s Village Ramped Up After He Won an Oscar appeared first on The Intercept.
Back in the 70s and 80s, the USSR’s economy was in terrible shape. It hadn’t always been, that’s a triumphalist myth: for a long time it out-performed the West, and economic textbooks of the 50s discuss the problem that the Soviets were growing faster than we were.
So Reagan’s administration came up with a plan: they’d increase defense spending, the Soviets would have to do the same, and the strain would screw over their economy. There’s various arguments, but it seems to have worked.
Recently Trump suggested that Russia, America and China all cut their defense spending in unison. Russia was interested, China said no.
Now, of course, the US spends way more than anyone else on its military, but that’s mostly because it over-pays for everything because of vast corruption.
The unfolding events in Turkey following the detention of Istanbul’s elected mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, mark yet another moment of crisis for Turkish democracy. This latest act by Erdoğan’s government is part of a long campaign to dismantle democratic institutions and silence opposition; it is not merely an attack on an individual, but an assault on […]
Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE...
BEEF BOULETTE BURGERS 2 pounds ground beef1 cup dairy sour cream½ cup dry bread crumbs1 can (4 ounces) mushroom stems and pieces, drained and chopped2 tablespoons finely chopped onion2 tablespoons snipped parsley1½ teaspoons salt¼ teaspoon pepper Mix all ingredients. Shape mixture into 8 patties, each about ¾ inch thick. Broil or grill 4 inches from […]
DOGE claims it’s not an “agency” that has to comply with FOIA. We don’t buy it — and so far judges haven’t, either.
The post DOGE Keeps Trying to Dodge the Freedom of Information Act. So We’re Suing. appeared first on The Intercept.
Public commentary on Peter Dutton’s possible referendum on a ministerial discretion to deprive dual nationals of their Australian citizenship has focused on whether or not this is just a thought bubble and whether or not it is politically wise to be holding yet another referendum. The real issue goes much deeper, to the merits of Continue reading »
Before this election is much older, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are going to have to determine where they stand on all the important issues. There’s a substantial chance that both are wrongly positioned and that each might have to face the other way, or perish politically. It’s not for an argument about which vista Continue reading »
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
If we are to build a broad consensus in Europe against Trump, we need to bring Palestine into equal focus with Ukraine, argues Martin Shaw
On its 15th birthday, the health care law’s shortcomings and sellouts are creating Unaffordability For All.
The court condemned Ukrainian authorities for failing to prevent a fiery 2014 massacre in which dozens of anti-Nazi activists were burned alive – but the judges’ political bias meant victims were implicitly blamed for their fate, and their families received a paltry 15,000 euro payout. The European Court of Human Rights has found the Ukrainian government guilty of committing human rights violations during the May 2, 2014 Odessa massacre, in which dozens of Russian-speaking demonstrators were forced into the city’s […]
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