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Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in prison. If convicted, the six Palestine Action activists and 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms. The jury has not been notified about the ‘terrorist’ designation, and the British media cannot report this information under a court order. Activists will also be prohibited from telling jurors how their efforts sought to impede the Gaza genocide. The prosecution followed […]

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Sold as a lifeline for the next generation, Trump Accounts risk deepening inequality while delivering limited gains to the children they’re intended to help.

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Enter your zip code on our website to find an H&R Block near you. Alternatively, just drive by any property that used to contain a Spirit Halloween.

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You can, but it hurts our feelings when you use our services without coming in to talk to us.

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You will possibly receive a refund via direct deposit once your tax dollars are deposited into the steaming gullet of the Great War Pig.

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The Great War Pig.

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Exclusive: A formal complaint exposes the absence of any nationally-binding selection rules in the Green Party. Zack Polanski has admitted it is a "real challenge" to vet its local election candidates

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements designed to improve people's lives across the UK

Fishing apparel mentioned:

• A tarpon-wear shirt
• Old bib-front overalls
• Bow ties and club blazers
• Jean shorts

It will come as no surprise to longtime readers of Thomas McGuane’s work that while I was speaking with him, I was moved by his kindness, his incisive insight, and, above all, his mischievous sense of fun. The craic was exceptional. We are both writers, anglers, and equestrians, and we’d both recently fished for Atlantic salmon in arctic Norway. We laughed a lot during our conversation: in helplessness, in disbelief, in despair, and at the inherent comedy of life.

“The Birth Rate Is Falling, and It Has Nothing to Do with the Cost of Housing, Health Care, or Childcare. It’s Women”

“The Falling Birth Rate: A Crisis with Many Complex Causes, All of Them Female”

“Women Cite ‘Financial Instability’ for Not Having Children. What Aren’t They Telling Us?”

“Did Feminism Ruin the Birth Rate?”

“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? College-Educated Women”

“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Non-College-Educated Women”

“Who Is to Blame for the Falling Birth Rate? Women Whose Educational Status We Were Unable to Confirm”

“Experts Agree: The Birth Rate Crisis Is Multifaceted, Structural, and Female”

“Did IUDs Ruin the Birth Rate?”

“We Spent Six Months Investigating the Birth Rate Crisis and Found Women at Every Turn”

“Birth Rates Are Down Across the Western World. One Variable Has Remained Constant: Women”

“Experts Warn the Falling Birth Rate Could Have Serious Consequences for Men”

‘Come to Highgate, I’ll give you a quick guided pop tour,’ writes dandy, flâneur and musician Dickon Edwards in a November 1999 diary entry. ‘Here’s where Keith Moon threw a champagne bottle through a dividing wall and framed it for a photo. Here’s where Jo Whiley nearly got me run over. Here’s where Brett Anderson […]

The right to protest is not a privilege; it is a basic democratic freedom. What we are witnessing now in Britain is a serious and deliberate assault on that freedom.  The government’s recent Crime and Policing Bill would hand senior police officers the powers to decide where, when or whether a protest may take place. […]

Phil Armstrong Published online 10th April 2026 Modern Monetary Theory and International Trade: Developments on the Base Case for Analysis   Abstract  Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)’s approach to international trade …

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“We are Iranian Jews and we are always ready to sacrifice our lives for our homeland,” Bihdad Mikhail, managing director of the Tehran Jewish Association, told MintPress News as he held back his tears while carrying Jewish religious books that were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.

The post Iranian Jewish Association Describe Israel as “Ominous Zionist Regime” After Israeli Strikes Destroy Historic Synagogue on Passover appeared first on MintPress News.

Since the end of World War Two, Washington has targeted medical centers in at least 16 countries and Israel destroyed nearly every medical facility in Gaza. The 307 Iranian sites hit does not even come close to the record for the number of hospitals in any country destroyed by American bombs and missiles.

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