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On the 20th Anniversary of "Bowling for Columbine" winning the Oscar, you can watch it for free

The post Michael Moore: Guns Don’t Kill People, Americans Kill People appeared first on scheerpost.com.

A lot of people beyond Ben Barnes have said that Reagan’s 1980 election campaign conspired to keep American hostages in Iran.

The post A Short History of Everyone Who Confirmed Reagan’s October Surprise Before the New York Times appeared first on The Intercept.

By Ryan Fatica and Chris Schiano / Unicorn Riot Atlanta, GA — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, charged 23 more people with ‘domestic terrorism’ for their alleged involvement in the ongoing effort to stop ‘Cop City’ and to defend the Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County southeast […]

The post Behind the #StopCopCity Domestic Terrorism Warrants appeared first on scheerpost.com.

What parts of the financial system are most vulnerable to a crash?

“Taking our data without notice isn’t convenient, it’s creepy."

A little change of pace. As part of the Not Secret But Not Entirely Documented Either plan to save the Internet, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with lisp weenies. The parenthesis are rubbing off on me, I think primarily because you can stuff lisp into tinier nooks than even Linux fits. One […]

Law and economics expert Walker Todd explains how a financialized system creates havoc and why it’s time to rethink banking

 

Polling indicating extreme negative sentiment… embarrassing…

Jeremy Scahill tracks the destructive history of U.S. imperialism in Iraq.

The post The Bloody U.S. Legacy in Iraq appeared first on The Intercept.

I am an unequivocal rationalist and yet I still want to see something strange and wonderful in life’s weird coincidences

- by Paul Broks

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Republican lawmakers are making a bid to challenge the federal government’s monopoly on immigration enforcement at the Supreme Court.

The post Texas GOP Wants Citizens to Stop Migrants. Critics Say It’s a “Vigilante Death Squads Policy.” appeared first on The Intercept.

“Like lambs to the slaughter” was how an elderly neighbour described the deaths of youngsters travelling on Intercity 62 which, on the night of 28 February, crashed head-on with a freight train in Greece killing 57 people. Many of the dead were students returning after a long weekend from Athens to their universities in Thessaloniki. […]

The post Europe’s latest illiberal democracy: Greece! – New Statesman appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

From the very beginning, Elgin’s removal of the Parthenon’s statues and friezes caused something of a discursive British civil war. On one side were humanists, like Lord Byron; on the other were Empire apologists, who defend Elgin’s actions and support the British Museum’s inalienable property rights to the artefacts it, eventually, purchased from him. Over […]

The post On the shameful deal Osborne-Mitsotakis are hammering out over the Parthenon antiquities – UNHERD appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.

On 7th February 2023, I returned to the Chamber to discuss a wide variety of issues, beginning with a Europe-at-war, post-Brexit Britain, the New Cold War that marks capitalism’s global transition to (what I call Technofeudalism), the state of the Left in Eastern Europe and more. Thanks Cambridge Union!

The post Britain, Europe, the New Cold War Finance & Technofeudalism – at the Cambridge Union appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.