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A year on from the tragic drowning of four people in the English Channel, Nicola Kelly reports on how the Government's plan to "smash" the people smugglers involves further targeting their victims

David Sirota speaks with climate journalist Amy Westervelt about how the fossil fuel industry launders their image through the use of sponsored ‘advertorials.’

Are these triangles propelled by music, or is it a sensory trick? Origami and a heady score create a synaesthetic experience

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Stereotypes are obviously bad, but believing you share an essence with others could help people who feel marginalised

- by Ariana Orvell & Alexa Lebrón-Cruz

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Bending a mysterious world to your will was the goal of esoteric practices. Now it’s the unashamed aim of the tech titans

- by Tara Isabella Burton

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In the summer of 2023, 88 seasonal fruit pickers employed by Haygrove Farms, largely hailing from Latin America, undertook unofficial strike action in response to alleged wage theft, discrimination, harassment, and poor working conditions. As a recent report by the Landworkers’ Alliance sets out, the post-Brexit seasonal worker visa scheme has facilitated a decline in […]

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He chose not to believe anyone who wouldn’t tell him what he wanted to hear. Ken Chesebro was one of those who were happy to give him what he wanted. And Trump listened: Former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro has been talking to all kinds of legal inquiries andit seems there’s always something new for him to say. Here’s one of the latest: Before a group of supportive lawyers entered the Oval Office for a photo-op with then-President Donald Trump in December 2020, they were given a clear instruction, according to one attendee: Don’t get Trump’s hopes up about overturning the election. One attorney, Jim Troupis, toed the line. He’d just finished leading Trump’s failed election challenge in Wisconsin, and bluntly told the president it was over in that state. But when the conversation shifted to Arizona, attorney Kenneth Chesebro deviated from the plan. He told Trump he could still win – and explained how the “alternate electors” he helped assemble in Arizona and six other states gave Trump an opening to continue contesting the election until Congress certified the results on January 6, 2021.

Today (December 14, 2023), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for November 2023. Employment growth remains strong with a surprise uptick in full-time employment. With participation rising by 0.2 points, the increase in the labour force outstripped the strong employment change, which meant that the unemployment rose by…

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After 21 years at Swinburne University of Technology, APO will be joining the Susan McKinnon Foundation to continue it’s vital … More

I am offering this thoughtful piece on the sexual violence of October 7th by Jill Filipovic with a gift link because I really want you to be able to read the whole thing. There’s so much sturm und drang around this topic that it’s hard to ever find clarity. This is one of the rare articles that provides it without pandering, excusing or obfuscating the reality. She discusses in detail how difficult it was to get reliable forensic evidence in the aftermath of the attack and explains why it was important, as a journalist, to wait for the facts. Reporting of sexual violence is war is always fraught and with all discussions of rape it’s important to be precise because so often the reflexive response is to dismiss it. But that’s not the whole story here: But soon after the attacks, the evidence started to come in, and it took the form that evidence of wartime rape often does: accounts from survivors of the attacks, emergency responders, medical personnel, those who examined the bodies and journalists who were permitted to see some attack footage.

“Wings Over the World.” That was the proclamation I quite thoughtfully had inscribed beneath my high school graduation yearbook photo. Because “Wings Over America” seemed a bit understated for how I truly felt about that band during those musically formative … Continue reading →

Talking politics in a polarized society can get heated fast. Chatbots could help us keep our cool.

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Anthony Albanese has shifted his position on a ceasefire under pressure from sustained protests at Israel’s genocidal onslaught on Gaza—but still won’t demand Israel stop the bombing.

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I suspect you haven’t heard about this. The only hysterical headlines are the ones that show Biden losing. Ok, so what about those battleground states everyone was shrieking about the other day based on one poll? Oh. And then there’s this: This is good too: I’m not saying these things mean any more than anything else going into the election year. We don’t know what is really going to motivate people next November. But there’s no reason to discount them either. Let’s just say that there is a lot of information out there and there’s no reason to fall into a doom spiral just because the media likes to play up the negative Biden stories. It’s Happy Hollandaise Time! If you’ve of a mind…

Owen Jones kindly invited me back to his show to discuss, what else, Gaza. We talk about the peculiarity of this genocide (i.e., that its perpetrators do not even care to hide their intent), the forgotten readiness of Western governments to brutalise not only foreign peoples (like the Palestinians) but also their own working classes, […]

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Earlier this year, before Hamas’ attack and Israel’s siege of Gaza, and before the House...