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By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch Collateral damage?  Deserving and worthy of their punishment?  The exclusion and banishment of Russian and Belarusian athletes has become the acceptable prejudice of many governments and a slew of sporting bodies.  After the invasion of Ukraine in February last year, a number banded together to find ways to punish Russia, […]

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‘It’s like being in love with someone’: Barry Duncan, MIT’s master palindromist, spells out his ‘doubly satisfying’ process

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Ukraine and the collective West talk too much.

Prisoners in Washington State are renewing their fight to democratize education amid new restrictions threatening their decade-old program.

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The stories of oral societies, passed from generation to generation, are more than they seem. They are scientific records

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Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens...

A look at the U.S. national debt since World War II reveals that economic growth and fiscal austerity (i.e., spending cuts and raising taxes) are two of the ways to reduce the debt burden.

Natalie Burr The challenge of measuring financial conditions Imagine you were tasked with thinking about how financial conditions have changed over a policy tightening cycle. Different economists would come to very different conclusions, and none would necessarily be wrong. Why? Because measuring financial conditions is challenging – for a variety of reasons. A financial conditions … Continue reading The challenges of measuring financial conditions →

Enough with the victim mentality!

Presidents love to pay hush money!

A striking teacher talks to Josiah Mortimer about what the pay crisis looks like on the ground in a Cornish secondary school

Conservative voices in U.S. politics have been condemning Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in an assault against free speech. read now...

Yves here. This post confirms something Lambert has highlighted in the context of elections: that nurses are one of the most effective union groups. Here they are combatting abusively low hospital staffing levels. Not only will this campaign help slow the decline of the quality of care, it should help slow the exodus of nurses, […]

We start to see the absurdity of the current reliance on monetary policy as a counter-stabilisation tool, when you read the calls from the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member talking about the risk of a ‘significant inflation undershoot’. In a detailed analysis of the current situation, the external MPC member noted that inflation…

With corruption on the rise, there's a case for creating a political system in Australia where no one, irrespective of wealth or power, has any more influence than anyone else. read now...

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Broadcaster slammed for falsely implicating immigrants The BBC has been hammered for feeding into racist stereotypes in its report of the conviction of twenty-one people in the West Midlands on child sex abuse charges. All those convicted are white Britons – yet the BBC illustrated the article with a headline image showing Palestinian flags: After […]

Republicans are suddenly concerned about their anti-abortion zealots ruining everything. And in the process they are proving that abortion politics were always about winning and not about any “principle” that life begins at conception. Now that they are losing and they don’t like it:

The Colorado Information Analysis Center alerted authorities to an activist group organizing walkouts in response to school shootings.

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