Panic, fear, uncertainty. Everything changed after March 2020. A deadly disease was spreading fast, brick and mortar businesses went bust, and long-term employees lost their livelihoods. But for billionaire Jeff Bezos, business was booming. His trillion-dollar company was opening a new warehouse in the US roughly every twenty-four hours and cementing its position as an […]
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From the far side of the Atlantic, Tribune recognised the fateful Chilean events of 11 September 1973, marking the death of President Salvador Allende and the violent overthrow of his left-wing Unidad Popular government as a moment of epochal significance. Penning the then-paper’s initial statement on the breaking news, Tribunite Labour MP Judith Hart lamented […]
When Estonian writer Helen Hindpere took the stage at the 2019 Game Awards to accept one of the many prizes awarded to the video game Disco Elysium, she thanked Marx and Engels ‘for providing us the political education’. Disco Elysium is a text-heavy role-playing game (RPG) about an alcoholic cop with amnesia investigating a murder in an alternative universe. […]
In the West, Shinzo Abe is perhaps best remembered for two things. In February 2017, on a visit to the White House, he had his hand crushed for almost half a minute in one of Donald Trump’s notorious ‘handshakes’. Then, five and a half years later, he was murdered with a homemade rifle by Tetsuya […]
As we continue to worsen climate change by burning fossil fuels, all these places will become harder and more expensive to defend – until the day they can’t be defended any more
This year, on the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, the Museum of Living History in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil hosted an exhibition entitled Marx in France. It coincided with one of the sharpest social and political crises in the country’s recent history. At the start of the summer, riots broke out across France’s […]
The extension of the franchise could shift the character of British politics, writes Nicholas Reed Langen
Britain's privatised energy distribution network could hold back Labour's ambitious plans for renewables
Councils are at the whim of multinational transport firms when it comes to local transport
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Evidently, however, the potential for the strictly natural natural experimental approach, which relies exclusively on natural events as instruments, is constrained by the small number of random events provided by nature and by the fact that most outcomes of interest are the result of many factors associated with preferences, technologies, and markets. And the prospect […]
For a ‘churchyard romantic’ like yours truly, a visit to Alter Friedhof Prenzlauer Allee is, of course, a must when in Berlin …
By allowing insurers to outsource Medicaid decisions to a profit-hungry middleman, therapists and children say Florida’s left them with no say over vital medical care.
As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza entered its third week, leaving over 5000 dead and at least one million residents displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank published a blueprint for self-proclaimed Jewish state’s final solution. In a white paper released over a week after the Hamas-led surprise attack on Israeli military bases and kibbutzes, The Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy outlined “a plan for resettlement and final rehabilitation in Egypt of the entire population of Gaza,” based on […]
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This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for several months at Kyoto University in Japan. The Biwa canal and hydro power I was wandering down to the main station in Kyoto early the other day to meet a friend coming from Tokyo and I saw this…
As a young socialist, I remember reading a quotation attributed to Bertolt Brecht: ‘Because things are the way that they are, they will not stay the way that they are.’ I was intrigued; here, it seemed, was a promise that abject conditions would necessarily produce their own demise. I tried to chase down the source […]
The man they want to lead the world Trump: I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before? I’m reading and said us. You know, when you think about it, us, equals U.S. If we think of something genius, they will never say it. pic.twitter.com/xzXTMRRge6 — Acyn (@Acyn) October 23, 2023 The vast majority of Republican voters will vote for that puerile imbecile next November. What the fuck has happened to this country? Update: Whoa… Wow. Trump says if he’s elected he’ll implement “strong ideological screening” of all immigrants to the U.S. One of his criteria: “if you don’t like our religion…then we don’t want you in our country.” pic.twitter.com/PJ8rbqglZ9 — Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) October 23, 2023
KNOW your Mountain is a mini expo covering all things resilience and preparedness for summer time life in and around Ulong and Lowanna. Carol Cleary, co-owner of Ulong General Store and Cafe in the Valley, told News Of The Area, “Our mini expo will be personal, encouraging everyone to ask questions about their particular concerns...
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