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One of the right’s top hitmen seems to be one… The following is probably way too much information for some of you but I can’t resist. Ali Alexander and Milo Yiannopoulos are alt-right icons. Alexander is one of the big organizers of the Stop the Steal insurrection and Yiannopoulos has been hanging around Roger Stone for years and was most recently working with Marjorie Taylor Greene. These are people with access to the highest reaches of the GOP, including the Dear Leader. Oh, and they’re all affiliated with the Nazi Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. This is just … amazing: A key figure in the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” campaign has apologized after being accused of asking teenage boys for sexual pictures. Ali Alexander has become one of the most ubiquitous figures in the MAGA movement. Trump himself reportedly requested that Alexander speak at his rally before the riot, with his appearance only quashed by a last-minute intervention from Trump’s aides. But this week, Alexander stands at the center of a scandal that raises questions about how powerful men in the far-right treat their younger acolytes.
One question for Eli Yablonovich, an applied physicist at UC Berkeley.
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There are many reasons for the state to battle with a corporation but being a snotty bitch because the corporation objected to something the Governor said isn’t one of them: Gov. Ron DeSantis vowed Monday that the Florida Legislature will soon reassert control over Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, promising to void development agreements and even floating the idea of building a state prison near the world-famous attraction. Legislation also will be filed to take away Disney’s self-inspection of rides and monorails and allow the state to examine a ride if someone is seriously injured on it, DeSantis said at a news conference at Reedy Creek’s administrative building. He then mused about potentially selling off the district’s utilities and developing district land that Disney doesn’t own. “People are like, ‘Well, … what should we do with this land?” said a smiling DeSantis. “… Maybe create a state park, maybe try to do more amusement parks? Someone even said, ‘Maybe you need another state prison?’ Who knows?
Universities have become targets for tomorrow's defence personnel in a move brought on by the AUKUS pact and fear of China. read now...Martín Guzmán, ex ministro de Economía de Argentina, explica cómo el rol del poder debe ser central en la investigación económica, especialmente cuando se trata de deuda soberana.
Más de la mitad de todos los países en desarrollo del mundo están actualmente en crisis de deuda o se dirigen hacia ella.
La gente está despertando para descubrir que otra crisis de deuda internacional de enormes proporciones se avecina en el horizonte a una escala no vista desde principios de la década de 1980, después de la cual América Latina y África sufrieron una "década perdida". Implosiones de esta magnitud pueden eliminar años de progreso en salud, educación y estabilidad social. Sin embargo, no muchas personas entienden por qué y cómo está sucediendo esto.
Labour leader has not denied that John Dines drove and carried papers for him in lawsuit over leaflet written by another undercover officer Labour leader Keir Starmer used a notorious undercover ‘spycop’ as his driver and gofer when he was practising as a barrister, according to sources close to activists who fought McDonalds in a […]
The Opposition’s Shadow Minister for Home Affairs Barnaby Joyce has condemned Senator Lidia Thorpe after she was banned for life from a Melbourne strip club, with the Member for New England telling Senator Thorpe that she needs to respect strip... Read More ›
Martin Guzman, Argentina’s former Minister of Economy, explains how the role of power should be central to economic research – especially when it comes to sovereign debt.
Over half of all developing countries in the world are either currently in, or headed toward debt distress.
People are waking up to discover that another international debt crisis of enormous proportions looms on the horizon of a scale not seen since the early 1980s, after which Latin America and Africa slogged through a “lost decade.” Implosions of this magnitude can wipe out years of progress in health, education, and social stability. Yet not many people understand why and how this is happening.
As a new crisis gains momentum, economist Martin Guzman, former Minister of the Economy of Argentina and co-president of Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue offers his perspective on what has gone wrong and what can be done to address it. In his view, you can’t understand debt crises without confronting the power dynamics at play.
In May 2011, 20,000 people took to the streets of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista support movement had called for a ‘march of silence’ against the government’s so-called ‘war on drugs’. Women, children, and men walked in silence, holding up banners saying “no more blood” and “we are fed up” (“estamos hasta la madre”). Their clarity about the violence not only by so-called cartels, but also by state institutions, exposes what much state theory on the 'war on drugs' has lacked — an idea of the state's role. In my new book Selective Security in the War on Drugs, on security policies in the 2000s in Mexico and Colombia, I contribute to the emerging debate on the state in this so-called ‘war’.
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In 1995, following a spate of lethal violence against abortion providers across the United States,...
Before a Chinese-brokered Saudi-Iran détente accelerated ceasefire talks, U.S. intelligence reported Saudi Arabia and the Houthis were gearing up for brinksmanship.
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We need this Fox Dominion trial for the sake of democracy Michael Tomasky makes the case: Here’s an instructive and telling little exercise for you, one that I engaged in myself this past Sunday morning. Head over to Google and search for “NBC defamation lawsuits by former employees.” And then, do the same with CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. You’ll find a few interesting incidents. A Native American employee sued NBC over discrimination at the 30 Rock workplace. The CBS affiliate in Dallas settled an age discrimination case brought by an on-air reporter. After you’ve done that, go Google “Fox News defamation lawsuits by former employees”—and watch your computer explode. There’s the record $1 million fine Fox paid in 2021 over various #MeToo allegations from female employees. There’s the staggering $20 million Fox agreed to pay to Gretchen Carlson in 2016.
In facing the great challenge of our time, a super-state resident in continental Asia and an itinerant naval power seeking to maintain primacy – the foreign minister was unable to nominate a single piece of strategic statecraft by Australia that would attempt a solution for both powers. Paul Keating’s response to Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s Continue reading »
“Keep Calm and Carry On” posters should be put up in all Canberra government departments. The British Ministry of Information produced the original of this meme in 1939 to prevent public panic about widely predicted German air attacks. A new version is needed in Australia in 2023 to counter fears of imminent invasion and subversion Continue reading »
US foreign policy is based on an inherent contradiction and fatal flaw. The aim of US foreign policy is a US-dominated world, in which the US writes the global trade and financial rules, controls advanced technologies, maintains militarily supremacy, and dominates all potential competitors. Unless US foreign policy is changed to recognise the need for Continue reading »
When a senior officer in the Australian Defence Force assumes political positions that are in the realm of the overtly political, and is not disciplined for having done so, the government is derelict in its duty to maintain the firewall between the civil and the military. Worse, it constitutes an offence against democratic theory and Continue reading »
In a recent article in The Conversation, Professors Stephen Duckett and Fiona McDonald and Ms Emma Campbell suggest “restrict[ing] Medicare access to GPs who agree to bulk bill all patients, while allowing those who don’t bulk bill to rely solely on out-of-pocket payments”. While there is much to commend this proposal, it is not without Continue reading »
The minister for Home Affairs and the department have been given extraordinary powers, including significant power to hurt and oppress others. For good or ill, the legislature has authorised and permitted their determined cruelty to asylum seekers over many years, their beliefs about stripping citizenship from our nationals, deporting our home-grown criminals and establishing the Continue reading »
Since the global financial crisis there has been a fundamental change in the operation of the Australian economy. Since World War Two, the majority of the benefits of economic growth have flowed to the bottom 90 per cent of income earners. However, as shown in Figure 1, between 2009 and 2019 the top 10 per Continue reading »
Cooking time: 25-30 mins.Preparation time: 25 minsMain cooking utensils: ovenproof dish, saucepanOven temperature: 375°F.Oven position: center For 4 people you need:4 fillets sole1 tablespoon white wineseasoning Normandy sauce:2 tablespoons butter¼ cup all-purpose flour1¼ cups fish stock*1 egg yokjuice of 1 lemonseasoning1 tablespoon butter8 cooked mussels8 cooked button mushrooms Garnish: watercress TO SERVE: Hot with mixed […]