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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 19:50

Rambling emerged as a mass recreational activity in the last few decades of the nineteenth century in northern English areas increasingly swallowed by early capitalism’s apocalyptic landscape. It was a time when visitors to the premier industrial city of Manchester were welcomed by belching plumes of black smoke. In a short essay, Charles Dickens would describe its […]

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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 19:23

On this day in 2013, the Rana Plaza building collapsed, killing at least 1,134 garment workers and injuring over 2,500 more. The building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, housed five garment factories, and the incident remains the deadliest factory accident in history. The day before, workers had reported cracks in the walls to the building managers, but […]

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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 19:02
A couple of years ago, Paul Krugman had a piece up on his blog arguing that the ‘discipline of modelling’ is a sine qua non for tackling politically and emotionally charged economic issues: In my experience, modeling is a helpful tool (among others) in avoiding that trap, in being self-aware when you’re starting to let your […]
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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 17:00
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April 24th, 2023: My new book

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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 13:16

After a historic nine days of strike action over the past 21 months, NTEU members at the University of Sydney have voted 364-290 against a further three days’ strike in their current enterprise agreement campaign.

The post New sector benchmark, but NTEU officials scupper fantastic Sydney Uni fight appeared first on Solidarity Online.

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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 11:08

By Chris Hedges / Real News Network Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body of UN scientists, delivered a “final warning” to drastically cut global emissions in order to prevent the heating of the planet past 1.5 degrees Celsius. As the exponentially accelerating effects of the climate crisis have […]

The post Extinction Rebellion’s Roger Hallam: It’s not the climate, it’s the system | The Chris Hedges Report appeared first on scheerpost.com.

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Mon, 24/04/2023 - 10:00
This Rolling Stone piece about DeSantis’ angry former staffers is something else: DONALD TRUMP LOATHES Ron DeSantis for the Florida governor’s “disloyal” challenge to Trump’s iron grip on the Republican Party. The former president’s ire, however, is dwarfed by the intense desire harbored by some of Trump’s key aides and allies to see DeSantis politically ruined. These advisers, lawmakers, and operatives personally know DeSantis or used to work for him. Now, some of them are working to reelect Trump and have brought their intimate knowledge of DeSantis’ operations, and also what makes Trump’s likely 2024 primary rival tick. Just as importantly, some of the Team-DeSantis-turned-Team-Trump contingent have talked to the ex-president about how best to relentlessly mess with DeSantis, assuring Trump that the Florida governor is uniquely “insecure” and “sensitive,” and that it’s easy to get in his head, two such sources who’ve spoken to Trump tell Rolling Stone.