My sense is that political cartoonists are finding it pretty difficult to encapsulate the events of the last two weeks in our sunburnt country girt by sea. Not because they are so depressing: a good cartoonist can always wring dark humour from a tragedy. But because they are so clearly self-satirising.
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I thank Alessandra Panizza for taking the time to review Brave New Wild (Jan-Feb), and for her forthright defence of an alternative model of social and scientific development, but her review contains a number of claims (or implications) that misconstrue my argument.
After weeks of military threats, and despite ongoing negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the US and Israel have combined to rain bombs on cities across Iran.
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Equations that mask inequality Barbara Williams Students of economics learn obedience to equations that mask inequality. That thought hit me while reading “The Justice Lie”…
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Uncertainty is central to Keynesian economics Steven Hail This item is extracted from Steven Hail’s 2018 book Economics for Sustainable Prosperity. The discussion relates to…
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Can MMT save AI from catastrophe? John Alt A chief criticism of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is that it is inherently inflationary. The simple logic…
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Empathy, morality, civilisation and resisting tyrants Geoff Davies Are we just selfish brutes who need to be civilised into social, moral behaviour? If not, where…
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The US and Israel claim to have killed Khameini. Iran says they missed. Either way it doesn’t matter much, the Iranian response of hitting US bases and Israel hasn’t been effected. They’ve also declared the Straits of Hormuz closed. If Khameini was killed, he is far more likely to be replaced by hawk than a […]
Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts. Nothing on the new Iran war, I’ll have a post up on that soon.
Renewables over 50%, wholesale prices down – is the energy transition … succeeding? Tony Wood Ten years ago, if a heatwave as intense as January’s record-breaker…
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Janet Fielding on returning to film a mini-episode of Doctor Who that serves as a "sequel" to her final story, "Resurrection of the Daleks."
War with Iran has been the goal of both neoconservative and Zionist factions in Washington for decades. With an increasingly belligerent and erratic Trump in the White House, it could be that the warmongers finally achieve their dream.
The post Scott Ritter: US vs Iran: What War Would Really Look Like –Military Power, Oil Shock & Global Fallout appeared first on MintPress News.
The killing of drug cartel kingpin El Mencho has led to retaliatory violence in Mexico — much of it carried out with American-made guns.
The post Made-in-America Guns Are Fueling Death and Destruction in Mexico appeared first on The Intercept.
Jean Parker looks at how the first Mardi Gras led to a campaign that won the right to march, as well as victories for LGBTIQ+ rights.
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. Det finns ju numera väldigt många ‘chefsekonomer’ på tankesmedjor och banker som valsar runt i medierna — men ingen så väl värd att lyssna på som Max Jerneck. I stället för det vanliga tyckmyckentrutade pladdret från televisionens och dagstidningarnas ekonomiredaktioner har vi här någon som faktiskt gör sig mödan att på djupet analysera saker […]
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.
The Starmer–McSweeney strategy for winning the next election was clear from the start. They wanted a contest between Starmer, the ‘decent’ centrist, and Farage, the ‘extremist’, with the Conservatives squeezed out. That logic explains the government’s willingness to ignore progressive voters, whom McSweeney and his Labour Together faction assumed would fall in line to stop […]
Between burnout and bore-out, there lies an optimal level of stress that can motivate you and enhance your performance
- Video by University of the Netherlands
When our self-respect, status and social identity are threatened, we ought to defend ourselves and shame our wrongdoers
- by James Edgar Lim
Virtually everything you think you know about psychopathy has been thoroughly debunked. Why does this zombie idea live on?
- by Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen
Common Peephole She came from Greece,she had a faulty socket.Her eye fell out,she couldn’t stop it. That’s when Icaught her eye.