The announcement this month by the Albanese government that Australia would be acquiring HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) batteries from the United States can be put down to a few factors. One is that sense of being left out of the club. If European states can have such launchers with seemingly devastating effect, why Continue reading »
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George Pell was, by temperament and personality, about the worst possible choice to be made a bishop, then an archbishop, and ultimately a cardinal — one of the inner circle of the church entrusted with central church administration and the selection of new Popes. He was the wrong man for the times – if ever Continue reading »
Hannah Dickinson, an asylum lawyer from the Asylum Seeker Rights Centre, is reported in The Canberra Times to “have rubbished suggestions people are seizing on huge backlogs of asylum applications to lodge bogus claims for protection”. Yet in the same article, the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is reported to have said asylum “backlogs (have) Continue reading »
The nation is approaching a watershed decision. Are we brave enough to try and correct the wrongs of the past? The Voice. These two simple words have unleashed a manufactured storm. For me they set running a kaleidoscope of scenes: Captain Cook’s arrival The astonishment of the people already here Cook’s abandonment of his instructions Continue reading »
“The U.S. government believes that the only democratic institution in Venezuela is an assembly that has not met in seven years and whose term has expired,” writes Vijay Prashad, an Indian historian, editor and journalist in a recent article from Consortium News. Without a single word of dispute for Vijay’s presented view of the United Continue reading »
This piece by Peter Drier sums it up for those guys who want to appropriate King for their one single purpose: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was no moderate. Today, he is viewed as something of an American saint. His name adorns schools and street signs. His birthday January 15, 1929 – is observed as a national holiday on the third Monday of January each year. This year as in year’s past, Americans from across the political spectrum invoke King’s name to justify their beliefs and actions. But in his day, King was considered a dangerous troublemaker. Both Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson worried that King was being influenced by Communists. King was harassed by the FBI and vilified in the media. The establishment’s campaign to denigrate King worked. In August 1966 – as King was bringing his civil rights campaign to Northern cities to address poverty, slums, housing segregation and bank lending discrimination—the Gallup Poll found that 63% of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of King, compared with 33% who viewed him favorably. King called himself a democratic socialist.
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A new study reveals that both Israeli businesses and multinational corporations have been instrumental in helping Israel restrict water access to Palestinians and destroy Palestinian water infrastructure.
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Stella Assange joins Lee Camp to discuss her husband, Julian Assange, his deteriorating condition and the impact of his confinement in Belmarsh prison in London.
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The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry's successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make record profits.
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It took the GOP just 20 years Here in North Carolina, this New York Times essay by Margaret Renkl strikes very close to home. Where Republicans are in charge, spite drives policy and rationality takes a holiday. Here or just west in Tennessee, blue cities have targets painted on them: Last year, when Nashville’s Metro Council voted not to support the state’s bid for the city to host the 2024 Republican National Convention, retaliation was widely understood to be inevitable, according to Nashville’s NPR affiliate, WPLN News. Now we know what shape retaliation will take: Last week, on the first day of the new legislative session, Republicans in both the Tennessee House and Senate introduced legislation that would cut our Metro Council in half. (The bills ostensibly apply to all city governments with a legislative body larger than 20 members, but that’s just Nashville.) If passed, the law would overturn not only a 60-year history but also the will of the Nashville people, who voted in 2015 to keep its 40-member council intact.
It's not a bad apple, it's a rotting orchard, writes Sian Norris – as a Met police officer admits to being a serial rapist
Sad news has reached us today. One of the leading Post Keynesian economists, Victoria Chick, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. R.I.P.
Thanks to everyone who has given, I appreciate it greatly. We’re about $1,300 short of the final goal. If we hit it I’ll write an article on reasons for hope. Either way, again, I’m very grateful.
Alex Rubinstein joins Lee Camp to discuss the Anti-Defamation League's recent defense of Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and what some describe as a broader "corruption" of Jewish institutions.
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The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: Skeptical Theism by Timothy Perrine. Antonio Gramsci by James Martin. Action by Juan S. Piñeros Glasscock and Sergio Tenenbaum. Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics by Roman Frigg and Charlotte Werndl. Revised: Rule Consequentialism by Brad Hooker. Behaviorism by George Graham. Frederick Douglass by Ronald Sundstrom. Pierre Bayle by Michael Hickson. Intersections Between Analytic and Continental Feminism by Georgia Warnke. Simone de Beauvoir by Debra Bergoffen and Megan Burke. Donald Cary Williams by Keith Campbell, James Franklin, and Douglas Ehring. Egoism by Robert Shaver. Globalization by William Scheuerman. Leucippus by Sylvia Berryman. Democritus by Sylvia Berryman. IEP Arthur Schopenhauer: Logic and Dialectic by Jens Lemanski.
O país vive um momento único para chamar as coisas pelo nome e reconhecer que os militares fomentaram o messianismo de inocentes úteis.
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MLK was not meek and inoffensive MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan delivered a monologue Sunday night on the “the Santa Claus-ification” of Martin Luther King (Princeton University Professor Cornel West’s words). Over a dozen years ago, West warned his audience at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta that King’s image was at risk of being sanitized by history until the truth of the man is distilled away. “We have to resist the ‘Santa Claus-ification’ of Martin Luther King. I don’t want to sanitize Martin Luther King. I don’t want to deodorize Dr. Martin Luther King. I don’t want to disinfect Dr. Martin Luther King, and we’re not gonna domesticate Dr. King,” West said. “The FBI said he was the most dangerous man in America, and the FBI said he was the most notorious liar in America,” West continued. Cuddly and grandfatherly King was not. Quotes that appear on his monument in downtown Washington, D.C. may be among his most famous because they were the least offensive, the least radical, the least threatening to white Americans. They minimize his legacy while celebrating it.
In celebration (?) of my book’s recent Kindle release, today’s post aims to make the connection between my interest in generational conflict and technological progress more explicit. (In case anyone came here just to get mad about the title, let me emphasize that this is a follow-up to Why I am (Still) a Liberal (For […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a visiting professor at Morehouse College in the early 1960’s.* While there, he taught a senior seminar in social and political philosophy. What was on the syllabus? Here’s his outline for the first semester of the course, from the King Center: He includes material from Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Bentham, and Mill. Here is an exam given in the course: Thanks to various readers and tweeters for bringing this to my attention. Readers may be interested in the forthcoming collection, To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, edited by Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry (Harvard). Shelby and Terry discussed the book and King’s political philosophy on WBUR’s “Radio Boston” yesterday. (*Morehouse says the course took place in 1960; the King Center says 1961-62. The exam’s date of January 25, 1962, suggests the course began in Fall 1961.) [This post was originally published in 2018.]
Consultant David Oliver analyses the claims about spending, waste and inefficiency in healthcare and proposes a ten point plan to restore services to their 2010 level
Thanks to systemic and deliberate underfunding, NHS Emergency departments are now a vision of hell. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11th January 2023 You have to see it to believe it. A few days after Christmas, I hit my head on a scaffolding bolt. There was lots of blood and pain down the […]
