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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 20:52

‘The Palestinian people’, United Nations experts warned six weeks ago, ‘are at grave risk of genocide.’ ‘The time for action’, they pleaded, ‘is now’. But since then, far from ending the slaughter, the number of Palestinians killed has almost doubled — and Britain is deeply complicit in this atrocity.  Our government provides Israel with vital […]

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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 20:04

This post is a follow up on the collaboration between Drupal and other FOSS projects in response to the proposed CRA legislation in the EU. You can read our original joint letter here.

The Drupal Association has continued to participate in weekly calls with other open source projects leaders hosted by Open Forum Europe to discuss the proposed Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA) in the EU. 

The EU legislators are now reconciling several different draft versions of the regulation, and incorporating stakeholder recommendations into a new draft to be advanced through the legislative process.

For the past several months multiple constituent groups within the EU have shared draft versions of the text, soliciting feedback from a variety of stakeholders in government, industry, and the open source community. 

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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 19:53
The mainstream textbook concept of money multiplier assumes that banks automatically expand the credit money supply to a multiple of their aggregate reserves.  If the required currency-deposit reserve ratio is 5%, the money supply should be about twenty times larger than the aggregate reserves of banks.  In this way, the money multiplier concept assumes that […]
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 13:00
What else is new? Axios reports that there’s some dissonance in the House Freedom caucus. They’re voting for new leadership and there seems to be a bit of a problem: An influential member of the House Freedom Caucus won’t run for a leadership spot, citing a recommendation by the group’s board that Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) serve as its next chairman. “I am concerned that our group often relies too much on power (available primarily due to the narrow majority) and too little on influence with and among our colleagues,” Rep. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio) told his fellow members in a letter sent Sunday. “I ask that we consider how to best increase our influence while preserving our power to move policy in the right direction.
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 11:00
They’re making an effort. Will it be enough? Columbia Journalism Review’s Jon Allsop takes a look at how the media is handling Trump’s threats to democracy. He notes the flurry of articles in recent days exposing the authoritarian Trump agenda for his second term and examining his increasingly fascistic language and makes the same observation that I did earlier about the Trump campaign obviously getting nervous about it. However: Back in January, as part of an article laying out the media dynamics CJR’s staff would be watching this year, I wrote that I would be interested to see how media outlets continued to center—or didn’t—threats to democracy; I’d observed some progress on this front in 2022, but also feared that last year’s midterms—which brought defeat for the most ardent Trumpian election deniers running to assume oversight of the country’s election infrastructure—could push the question down the media agenda even though the threat hadn’t dissipated.
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 09:36

The Technical Working Group (TWG) is announcing two coding standards changes for final discussion. Feedback will be reviewed at the meeting scheduled for Tuesday 2 January 2024 2100 UTC.

Issues for discussion

The Coding Standards project page outlines the process for changing Drupal coding standards.

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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 09:00
Kate Cox, the Texas woman who is carrying a fetus with a fatal anomaly, has been forced to leave the state to get her needed abortion: The announcement came as Kate Cox, 31, was awaiting a ruling from the Texas Supreme Court over whether she could legally obtain an abortion under narrow exceptions to the state’s ban. A judge gave Cox, a mother of two from the Dallas area, permission last week but that decision was put on hold by the state’s all-Republican high court. “Her health is on the line. She’s been in and out of the emergency room and she couldn’t wait any longer,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which was representing Cox. This is horrifying. Cox has the ability to pay for this and pay for an attorney. Other women in her position aren’t. The horror of these creepy men like the criminal Ken Paxton and that grotesque anti-abortion zealot Supreme Court just John Devine deciding such issues is overwhelming. I think this will be a problem for the Republicans politically but many, many people will have to suffer in the meantime.
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Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:00

I was recently invited to contribute a paper to a special issue on the legacy of Che Guevara, published by Globalizations. As a feminist working at the intersection of international security and global political economy, I wanted to use the opportunity to seriously engage with Che’s normative contribution to theories of resistance. The call prompted me to think about the ethics of feminist anti-militarism and whether my feminism left room for support for the type of revolutionary violence we associate with Che.

The post Foco Feminism?: Rethinking the Ethics of Feminist Anti-Militarism appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).