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Fri, 09/12/2022 - 12:28

Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO’s seeking control over the global food supply. “They are sweeping the culture from the land,” a farmer laments. HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS –– The Netherlands is a patchwork of quaint towns and cities interwoven with flat expanses of immaculately-kept green agricultural pasture. The road and rail infrastructure are near-flawless. You could search for weeks without finding a pothole. It is one of the most expensive countries […]

The post Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion appeared first on The Grayzone.

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Fri, 09/12/2022 - 10:54

The Prize Committee is delighted to announce that the article by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri titled “COVID-19 and the failure of the neoliberal regulatory state,” published in the journal, Review of International Political Economy has won the 2022 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize.

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Fri, 09/12/2022 - 06:59
Noam Chomsky: “We’re on the Road to a Form of Neofascism” Noam Chomsky Interviewed by C.J. Polychroniou December 8, 2022. Truthout. Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc around the world, reversing most gains made under managed capitalism after the end of the […]
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Fri, 09/12/2022 - 05:00

BBC Audio are releasing a range of Doctor Who novelisations and audiobooks for 2023 in a whole new old school look A series of Doctor Who audiobooks are coming in 2023. Some are new editions of classic Target novelizations, while the range also includes a new Twelfth Doctor audiobook The Ice Kings. There will also […]

The post BBC Doctor Who Audiobooks for 2023 appeared first on Blogtor Who.

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Fri, 09/12/2022 - 03:39

The sixteenth International Day Against DRM (IDAD) is next week, and all of us that contribute to the Defective by Design campaign are calling on you to help us send a message to purveyors of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) around the world, letting them know that DRM is unacceptable in any and all of its forms. This year's Day Against DRM will be held next Friday, on December 16, 2022.

In this year's IDAD, we want to celebrate and call attention to an increasingly rare, almost magical ability that most forms of media used to have, and which all ethical digital media still does today: the ability to be shared with a friend.

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Fri, 09/12/2022 - 03:20

With the IMF projecting a steady increase in the amount of countries that will pay surcharges, largely as a result of external economic shocks, it is the right moment for surcharges to be safely terminated.

The post IMF Surcharges Can Be Removed as Precautionary Balances Are Safely Within Target appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.