Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
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Mike Clarke, the Director of the Cochrane Centre in the UK, for example, states on the Centre’s Web site: ‘In a randomized trial, the only difference between the two groups being compared is that of most interest: the intervention under investigation’. This seems clearly to constitute a categorical assertion that by randomizing, all other factors […]
The Al Jazeera ‘Labour Files’ documentary series exposed afresh the rampant racism and war on democracy of the Labour right, both to sabotage the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and to purge the left from the party under Keir Starmer. Now a new episode sees Martin Forde – the barrister Starmer reluctantly commissioned to investigate the […]
Twenty years after the invasion, veterans struggle to reconcile their sacrifices with the unhappy outcome and the false narratives that started the war.
The post “Trauma Never Goes Away”: As America Forgets, Iraq War Stays With U.S. Veterans appeared first on The Intercept.
A nation of Scrooges Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted” recalls that when abroad he’s heard heard the phrase “American-style deprivation” on several occasions. “Anyone who has visited [peer] countries can plainly see the difference, can experience what it might be like to live in a country without widespread public decay.” “The United States has a poverty problem,” Desmond explains. It is a tragedy and a national shame (New York Times): A third of the country’s people live in households making less than $55,000. Many are not officially counted among the poor, but there is plenty of economic hardship above the poverty line. And plenty far below it as well. According to the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for government aid and living expenses, more than one in 25 people in America 65 or older lived in deep poverty in 2021, meaning that they’d have to at minimum double their incomes just to reach the poverty line.
The first senior British Royal to ever enter the witness box in the High Court will allege Piers Morgan oversaw a conspiracy of newsroom criminality at the Daily Mirror, reveals Dan Evans
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Just as it does for a certain “old man on a green bike,” my commitment to car-free travel often drives me to greater levels of exercise, and more vivid experiences of nature, than one would get behind the wheel of a car. Unfortunately, economic growth has progressively degraded one such experience. Trips to my partner’s lake cottage begin with a commuter train in Montréal and end with an hour-long walk on a dirt road through the countryside.
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Are you aware that the United States is now exporting more blood than corn or soybeans? Learn about the shocking truth behind the booming business of blood collection and how it's sucking the life out of the poor.
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The Drupal Association is honored to be included in this month’s cycle of the Back-to-work Programme, an initiative by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software in collaboration with Zyxware Technologies. Zyxware Technologies is one of our amazing Drupal Certified Partners, and we are excited to contribute to the success of this program for many cycles to come.
The Back-to-work Programme provides Drupal training to women professionals who have been on a career break due to various reasons. This program not only aims to induct them into the talent pool of Drupal developers but also provides an opportunity to reintroduce them to the Free Software community.
The Norfolk Southern CEO dialled in his Congressional testimony as more and more damning details about the Ohio crash emerge.
Ramzy Baroud sheds light on the ongoing protests in Israel and their limited impact on the country's inherently racist institutions and ongoing military occupation and apartheid in Palestine.
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Nice figure of speech “injected!”… wow…
They are referring to the $2T of reserve balances currently in the RRP… why are they in that Fed account and not in Depository accounts where they could be utilized to settle unanticipated withdrawals without requiring sales of other HQLA at current reduced prices due to the dumb monetarists rate increases?
Why did the dumb Art degree people at the Fed reduce the RRR from 10% to 0% in the first place?
What is bad about requiring Depositories to maintain a ready USD balance of direct CB liabilities of a small 10% of their deposit liabilities in case of unanticipated withdrawals?
If the deposits flow to another depository (ie withdrawals) from available reserve balances that transaction actually INCREASES the Depository’s SLR with ZERO effect on Capital…
Hard to understand how the Art degree brain works… 🤔
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 $2 trillion could be injected into the US banking system by the Federal Reserve's emergency loan program, JPMorgan says.
In 1937, the American folklorist Alan Lomax invited Louisiana folksinger Huddie Ledbetter (better known as Lead Belly) to record some of his songs for the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Lead Belly and his wife Martha searched in vain for a place to spend a few nights nearby. But they were Black and no hotel would give them shelter, nor would any Black landlord let them in, because they were accompanied by Lomax, who was white. A white friend of Lomax’s finally agreed to put them up, although his landlord screamed abuse at him and threatened to call the police. In response to this encounter with D.C.’s Jim Crow laws, Lead Belly wrote a song, “The Bourgeois Blues,” recounting... Read more
Instead, Victoria Aitken insists she is pursuing a ‘legitimate claim’ against Euthenia Investments, reports Stephen Delahunty
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Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed firsthand a city in free fall.
A wintering; and everything we knowis hearsay: ravenspicking at a blood-knot in the snow, the villagelost,...
The problem is that democracy and capitalism don’t much like each other any more. Their underlying affinities have got lost in the miserable business of coexisting day to day. Businesspeople don’t want to be hectored by politicians who have never run a whelk stall. Politicians don’t want to be patronised by businesspeople who have never won a vote (‘Fuck business,’ as Boris Johnson neatly put it).
Archer Huntington called these objects ‘specimens’ and, for all its treasures, his collection was a product of late Victorian ethnography that painted the Spanish as an essentially ‘oriental’ race. Although he patronised artists such as Sorolla, Ignacio Zuloaga and Santiago Rusiñol, the works he chose are folkloric.
Philosophers of science had long accepted their role in justifying science, making the case that scientific knowledge is – take your pick – true, objective, rational, reliable, progressive, powerful. Thomas Kuhn seemed to be arguing that philosophers had been aiming their inquiries at the wrong targets.
the river was still widening as it went, as it carried me, thick mists risingoff it all day,was still widening, yes, for a while longer, holdingthe sky in its belly and back,me on my back in the...
For Bois, not only is form responsive to history, and historical situations inscribed in artistic transformations, but any such transformation is accountable to its present, and it is only thus that it is historically responsive in the first place. There is an ethics as well as a historicity in all artmaking, even the most abstract kinds.
The history of rebellion is always seductive. But the history of bone music suggests that state repression didn’t always loom as large in the lives of Soviet people as we might expect. What the stilyagi were resisting was the social not the political pressure to conform.
Jane Bowles’s characters are obsessed with sin and salvation, though they often confuse them. She was drawn towards things she found incomprehensible and, particularly, towards things she feared. What could be scarier for a godless person than submitting to a God she didn’t believe in?
For some, it’s a genuine community: a safe haven of soothers and tingle-seekers, a tool for anxiety relief and relaxation, amateur in style but extremely lucrative for independent self-described ASMRtists. For others, it’s a strange and unappealing fetish: a cynical form of ‘digital intimacy’. It’s the best, or the worst, the internet has to offer.