They span three generations and give their country reason to be enormously proud, writes Rick Sterling. All have depended on freedom of the press, which is now at stake. Australia has produced extraordinary journalists across three generations: Wilfred Burchett (deceased in 1983), John Pilger (passed away December 2023, 84 years old) and Julian Assange (51 Continue reading »
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Jim Chalmers has just added $11 billion to the cost of Western Australia’s dodgy GST deal. It’s an extraordinary case of political extortion. But is it even legal? And will WA have to give the money back? This is a long, sad story. It’s a story of how cynical politicians in one state were able Continue reading »
The Bill Gates Problem is Hitting the Mainstream. Is one of our favourite billionaire philanthropists losing the support of the MSM? Bill Gates, who once could do no wrong, has had numerous disparaging articles written about him in recent weeks. These all stem from a new book written by author Tim Schwab (no, nothing to Continue reading »
Happy 2024 everyone! May there be no more wars, no more avoidable suffering, and justice for all. That’s a steep wish-list, but then I am one of those who thinks that giving up is not an option, and that [almost] everyone has opportunities to contribute to make us move into that direction. In that spirit, […]
Geopolitics of knowledge is a fact. Only few (conservative) colleagues would contend otherwise. Ingrid Robeyns wrote an entry for this blog dealing with this problem. There, Ingrid dealt mostly with the absence of non-Anglophone colleagues in political philosophy books and journals from the Anglophone centre. I want to stress that this is not a problem […]
Couldn’t say it better Happy New Year’s! Preview of November 6, 2024: (h/t @JuliusGoat@mastodon.social)
BBC released preview images for Domino Day, its upcoming 2024 supernatural series about a young witch on the streets of Manchester.
Our 10th most-read article of 2023.
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Originally published January 10, 2023.
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1. Digging for Clams
What the hell is Betsy doing in the bathroom for so long? Digging for clams?
2. Spelunking
My Tinder date was so pathetic I would have had a way better time spelunking—and I have a hook for a hand!
3. Tickling My Fancy
Oh, hi, Mom. No, I’m not busy, just tickling my fancy. What, you too?
4. Flicking Fiona
What the fuck? Are you flicking Fiona? Both hands on the wheel, bitch. We’re on the freeway!
5. Slugging the Sister
Some say roof repair and slugging the sister make a dangerous combination, but I call that shit multitasking.
6. Damning the Beaver
Who can blame me for damning the beaver? That was the most boring Christmas pageant ever!
Yes, they’ll howl. The Truth hurts. A couple of items this morning remind us what lies ahead. There’s dread and there’s hopium, depending on how one reads the tea leaves. Roy Edroso considers the rise of Unpopularism. Republicans have decided that their path to power is to give people what they don’t want: I talk a lot about abortion rights here for a bunch of reasons, but the relevant one here is the lengthening string of goose-eggs Republicans have suffered in the repro rights referenda that came after they destroyed Roe v Wade. Even in Kansas and Ohio they couldn’t win. Yes, a few right-wing pundits who survived Covid with their olfactories intact can smell the stink that isn’t issuing from Trump’s Depends, but they are the exceptions. Their pro-life palaver started as a sop to one specific religious constituency, but over time it has become the symbol of the Republican Party’s whole anti-choice, anti-consent, anti-democratic ethos.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: New Year's Rockin' Eve, Green Day/Donald Trump, GOT, Night Court, Doctor Who, MacFarlane/Maher, and more!
What is sustainable development? Mark Diesendorf Sustainable development definition Sustainable development is a 20th century term describing a concept that has evolved over centuries. Living…
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Choosing unemployment: what of job seekers? – part 2 John Haly This is a continuation of part1 of the article by John Haly, which appeared…
The road is long and time is short, but Australia’s pace towards net zero is quickening Anna Skarbek The marks of industry have forever changed…
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January 1st, 2024: The first comic of the new year! Recommended new movie: Finding the money Extracts from an article by Steven Hail (source) “Between the U.S. economist and fund manager Warren Mosler, Post-Keynesian economists…
The magnificent failure of mainstream economics Steve Keen For the last fifty years, the development of economics has been driven by the desire to derive…
Amendment of the climate change Act will offer a future for young people David Shearman In 1842 the British Parliament passed a law prohibiting the…
Sometimes animals save us as we save them They need us and we need them: Some say they were first brought in to take out the rats. Others contend they wandered in on their own. What everyone can agree on — including those who have lived or worked at Chile’s largest prison the longest — is that the cats were here first. For decades, they have walked along the prison’s high walls, sunbathed on the metal roof and skittered between cells crowded with 10 men each. To prison officials, they were a peculiarity of sorts, and mostly ignored. The cats kept multiplying into the hundreds. Then prison officials realized something else: The feline residents were not only good for the rat problem. They were also good for the inmates. “They’re our companions,” said Carlos Nuñez, a balding prisoner showing off a 2-year-old tabby he named Feita, or Ugly, from behind prison bars. While caring for multiple cats during his 14-year sentence for home burglary, he said he discovered their special essence, compared with, say, a cellmate or even a dog. “A cat makes you worry about it, feed it, take care of it, give it special attention,” he said.
Finding the tools to end the cost of living crisis Steven Hail Finding an end to the cost-of-living crisis will depend on modern economic theories…
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