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Truthiness must not prevail Adam Serwer considers the implications of Fox fending off the Dominion voting machine defamation lawsuit (The Atlantic): Fox News executives understood the election-fraud allegations were nonsense, and they also understood their audience wanted to hear them. Misinformation and propaganda are not novel problems, but modern technology renders the incentives to lie to an audience particularly clear, and the means to reach that audience particularly easy to access. There will always be a potentially profitable demand for self-flattering lies; ethical people and institutions resist supplying them. The ability of individual hustlers to amass an audience of sycophants by feeding them conspiracies puts pressure on more mainstream outlets to gently appease conspiracism, if not to fully capitulate to it. Isn’t that an authoritarian’s wet dream? SLAPP suits would proliferate. Investigative journalism would dry up. The Biggest Brother could shape what the public knows. The network may ultimately prevail; that’s what all those fancy lawyers get paid for.

Andy Lee Roth joins Lee Camp to cover Project Censored's annual Top 25 Most Censored Stories of the past year that are underreported or neglected by mainstream media.

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It’s axiomatic that any system preying upon the vulnerabilities of the many, to profit the few, is both a moral and ethical atrocity. Capitalism embodies such a system. As originally conceived by Adam Smith “selfish interest” would theoretically extend “that universal opulence … to the lowest ranks of people.” But at some historical point his creation escaped. It turned malignant. Today, it serves only to increase the opulence of the opulent, while recruiting the rest of us to wage perpetual war against each other for survival. When, and why, did this occur? I’ll begin with a brief technical digression.

 Another post of conventional economists not being keen on applying logic to their reasoning.

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The Keynes-Tinbergen debate on econometrics
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Not quite the “valley of Death,” but still “Someone who needs a lot of security appears to be visiting Kyiv…..” tweeted Anne Applebaum just before 4 a.m. ET. Associated Press about 7:10 a.m. (Note: The spelling of Zelensky’s name varies with news outlet): President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a striking gesture of solidarity that comes days before the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the country. Biden spent more than five hours in the Ukrainian capital, meeting Zelenskyy at Mariinsky Palace, honoring the country’s fallen soldiers and meeting with U.S. embassy staff in the war-torn country. In his remarks with Zelenskyy, Biden recalled the fears nearly a year ago that Russia’s invasion forces might quickly take city. “One year later, Kyiv stands,” Biden said, jamming his finger for emphasis on his podium decorated with the U.S. and Ukrainian flags. “And Ukraine stands. Democracy stands.

After years of delays, and costing over £60 million to date, the public inquiry into undercover policing finally reaches the end of its first tranche of evidence gathering this week. While the women activists deceived into sexual relationships by undercover officers and spying on the family of Stephen Lawrence made headlines, the targeting of trade […]

“…It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…” — Teddy Roosevelt from his speech, Citizenship in a Republic

This has to stop.

I’ve let my “man in the arena” quote be twisted for over a hundred years and said nothing. Not when it became a Cadillac commercial, or the name of a Tom Brady documentary, or even a reference in Nixon’s resignation speech.

But you have pushed me too far. I did not make that speech at the Sorbonne so that a mid-tier YouTuber could address his history of bigoted comments with, “Sometimes when you’re the guy in the arena, shit happens, ya feel?”

Well, I don’t feel, Spencer. I don’t.

I had a lot of ideas. Big ideas. About nature and morality and democracy and monopoly. Maybe you agree with them, maybe you don’t, but I’ll be damned if my legacy is going to boil down to shitty men’s go-to “sorry-not-sorry” quote.

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It is widely recognized but often tacitly neglected that all statistical approaches have intrinsic limitations that affect the degree to which they are applicable to particular contexts … John Maynard Keynes was perhaps the first to provide a concise and comprehensive summation of the key issues in his critique of Jan Tinbergen’s book Statistical Testing […]

On this week’s MVC, the group discusses the 2022 Palme d'Or winner, Triangle of Sadness.

Josiah Mortimer reports on a family's campaign for change at company Bolt

The Lever got the media to cover the real story behind the toxic train disaster in Ohio.

Billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks gets into the pharmaceutical industry.

This senseless lawsuit could bankrupt the Labour party and let the Tories win again. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th February 2023. You might imagine that nothing could prevent a Labour victory at the next election. The Conservatives could scarcely have done more to alienate voters and destroy public trust. Everyone knows that […]

The decision to alter Roald Dahl's texts to make them more inclusive misses the mark – and ignores wider failures of diversity in children's publishing, writes Sian Norris

Following multiple, dangerous derailments across the country, those working the railroad have a solution to the nation's rail crisis: public ownership.

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US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on February 4 had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.

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Nonpartisan, publicly funded media is "an idea that we should explore," said the senator.

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Les worried that transitioning would ruin his life with Scott and their children. Instead, it strengthened their family bond

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By Brad Wolf / CounterPunch The Merchants of Death even own our sidewalks. That’s what we were told when we arrived at Raytheon Technologies in Arlington, Virginia, on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, to issue a “Contempt Citation” for Raytheon’s failure to comply with a subpoena issued last November by the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, a People’s Tribunal scheduled […]

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