Abundance liberals and populists can together combat scarcity — but one side has to come clean.
Reading
For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their history—and their legacy.
The post The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life appeared first on MintPress News.
He bankrolled Starmer, buried Corbyn, and silenced dissent. Meet the secretive oligarch shaping U.K. politics from behind the scenes—for Israel.
The post Sir Trevor Chinn: The Tycoon Who Hijacked British Democracy for Israel appeared first on MintPress News.
It’s me, your body, the one you’ve inhabited for thirty-plus years. I refuse to say exactly how many, because, as of today, keeping a precise count for you is no longer in my purview. Due to your blatant disregard for my efforts, I won’t be performing any further Sisyphean score-tallying tasks on your behalf. In fact, at this point, I’d rather work for Sisyphus. At least if I gave him persistent back pain, he wouldn’t try to deny that it had something to do with the giant boulder. Nor would he expect to be magically cured by an overpriced magnesium supplement and a long weekend upstate.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to fight corporations to make America healthy again, but his efforts so far have been all flash and little substance.
The post Doctor Who Magazine 618 appeared first on Doctor Who Magazine.
Showrunner Russell T. Davies shared that the show has "pathways" to "potential futures," and he was pausing his Doctor Who Magazine column.
Filming is underway on The Other Bennet Sister, BBC's spinoff of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with many who have been on Doctor Who.
Aid groups accuse Keir Starmer's Government of undermining poorer nations due to the influence of City lobbyists
1. Trump announces on Truth Social that he will solve the crisis in one day, and this will win him the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Trump accidentally says, out of habit, that this war “never would have started if I were president.” Then he remembers he’s currently the president but still blames Joe Biden anyway.
3. Trump repeatedly claims all the other presidents in US history were stupid for not getting a deal, because the conflict is so easy and simple.
4. Trump doesn’t read any of the briefings he’s given detailing the current status of the various negotiations between Iran, Israel, and his own national security team.
5. Trump asks his advisers why no one ever thought to make a deal where Iran gives up its nuclear ambitions in exchange for the US lifting sanctions to entice more civil behavior from Iran by opening it up to foreign investments and economic growth. His advisers remind him that Obama made that deal, but he ripped it up. Trump folds his arms tightly across his chest and frowns.
- by Aeon Video
A new report reveals the usual suspects — and other corporate executives quietly enriching themselves on Trump’s authoritarianism.
The post Meet the Billionaires Profiting the Most From Trump’s Draconian Policies appeared first on The Intercept.
On a walk through the Welsh countryside, I travelled through 4.6 billion years of Earth history – and you can too
- by Richard Fisher
Even in ancient Greece, Plato questioned whether gender norms around masculinity were good for men’s individual freedom
- by Yancy Hughes Dominick
People who sleep according to their culture’s norms are healthier overall
The post Sleep Has No Magic Number appeared first on Nautilus.
There is a deliberate policy by the Kremlin to exile, neutralise, and effectively erase alternative political life within the country, reports Denis Mikhailov
According to Guy Routh, econometrics is nothing but “mock empiricism, with statistics subjected to econometric torture until they admit to effects of which they are innocent.” Similarly, Mark Blaug in his The Methodology of Economics argued that econometric testing is like “playing tennis with the net down.” Although these are rather harsh judgments, I believe […]
An ageing population and successive cuts by the last Conservative Government have left local council budgets on the brink, reports David Hencke
The High Court has dismissed the legal challenge to Labor’s Administration of the CFMEU. But the decision only confirms what CFMEU members already knew—bad laws need to be broken.
The post High Court backs Labor’s CFMEU takeover but it’s not too late to fight: Strike out Administration first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Stoke-on-Trent — or the Potteries as it is popularly known — is celebrating a century of city status this year. But over the years, it has not been a popular place; indeed, it has tended to have a pretty bad press. On visiting the area in the 1930s, J.B. Priestley opined that the human race […]