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Population counts are key to conservation work, but tallying wolves is no easy feat, posing risks for wolf and biologist alike

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As poetry returns to its roots as a performance art, it’s providing many with a powerful source of healing and community

- by Erica Fletcher

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The discipline today finds itself precariously balanced between incomprehensible specialisation and cheap self-help

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The greatest disjuncture in the social sciences is between the image that economists have of their discipline, and its reality. A decade before David Graeber published Debt: the First 5000 Years (Graeber 2011), the future chief economic advisor to President George W. Bush published a paper with the confronting title of “Economic Imperialism” (Lazear 2000), … Continue reading "Puncturing the Hubris of Economics"

(This is second in the series promised during the 2022 fundraiser. For #1 (imperial collapse) read here.)

I’m going to keep this one brief.

This year has seen the constant shattering of temperature records. Temperatures in the high thirties, in winter, have been common.

The majority of the Mediterranean is going to be uninhabitable without air conditioning for months every year. This includes North Africa and the European areas. The same will be true of most areas of the tropics. Time scale is ten to fifteen years.

Because climate change includes weather instability, it will become impossible to get property insurance in increasing areas, starting with the coasts and areas prone to wildfires.

The IMF regularly conduct ‘missions’ to member countries, where a group of highly paid economists trot out to a capital city somewhere, hole up in some luxury hotel, and have a few meetings with Treasury officials and the like and then shoot through after the short visit back to whence they came and produce their…

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After a couple of months of deep writing, I’ve just turned in my first two chapters for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media. It’s been a really tough process for me. I’ve never written a book, or really any text of this size, before, so learning how to organise the process and my time has … Continue reading First two chapters turned in →

Low rating news channel, Sky News Australia, is hoping to pop a rating, ie draw more than 10 viewers by covering live the event of the year; Rootfest! Aka Barnaby Joyce’s bachelor party. ”People love Barnaby, in the same way... Read More ›

For our last Political Economy seminar in 2023, three recent doctoral graduates will illuminate the diverse applications and insights offered by a political economy approach. From Latin America to East Asia, via Sydney, these three papers will explore the intersections of political economy with other disciplines, such as geography and psychoanalysis, and a range of theoretical traditions from Marxism to post-Keynesian economics to world-ecology. These conceptual resources are applied to crucial and pressing questions about labour’s subordination to economic development, the role of central banks in financial stability, and the relations between nature and the state at the frontiers of commodity exploitation. This panel will give us an opportunity to discuss the connections and contradictions between different applications of a political economy approach and its essential interdisciplinarity.

Presenters:

David Avilés Espinoza, Spatial Political Economy: The Ideology of Nature, state-space, and the Oil Commodity Frontier in Chilean Patagonia

Luciano Carment, Quantitative Easing in Japan: A Critical Evaluation

Rights for cetaceans are not enough. They also deserve representation.

The post Who Speaks for the Whales?  appeared first on Nautilus.

I just finished watching “Now And Then — The Last Beatles Song” documentary film, written and directed by Oliver Murray and produced by Jonathan Clyde of Apple Corps. I then then immediately watched it again. (It’s only 12 minutes long.) The … Continue reading →

Johnson’s first order of business as House speaker is to seek budget cuts in exchange for a $14 billion aid package for Israel.

The post Rep. Mike Johnson’s Largest Donor Was AIPAC. He’s Trying to Cut Free Tax Filing to Send Weapons to Israel. appeared first on The Intercept.

With AIPAC urging members to reject eased humanitarian aid transfers, Republican Rep. Brian Mast compared all Palestinians to Nazis.

The post GOP Representative Denies Existence of “Innocent Palestinian Civilians” and Tries to Hobble Aid to Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.

While Western media often portrays the conflict as an Israel-Hamas issue, it transcends the boundaries of occupied Palestine. and stands as a pivotal arena in a global struggle between the powers of the so-called East and the collective West.

The post Israeli-US Ethnic Cleansing Plan To Salvage “New Middle East” Model appeared first on MintPress News.

When the summit on the future of the Catholic Church began on October 9, I...