Preparation time: 15 min.Cooking time: about 1 hr. Luscious caramels make a welcome gift at Yuletide. They can be made a week to 10 days ahead of presentation, as long as they are wrapped airtight and stored for the interim in a cool, dark place. For 64 candies (about 1½ lbs.) you will need: 2 […]
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Get ready for The Best Christmas Ever with a trio of festive tales set in the world of Doctor Who Candy Jar Books have announced a brand new collection of festive short stories in Doctor Who spin-off series The Lucy Wilson Mysteries. Arriving just in time for Santa to leave under the tree, The Best […]
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A good friend made a Facebook post saying “Sadly it turns out that the latest AI photo app y’awl using to look hot and sexy is built off the back of a training set full of work stolen from artists without payment. How disappointing. We sorted this shit years ago with Creative Commons licensing. It’s […]
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Reporting from inside the federal courtroom where the US is prosecuting Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, The Grayzone learns of disturbing acts of diplomatic espionage. Saab’s advocates insist he is imprisoned for violating Washington’s economic blockade. Authorities in Cape Verde, opened official government communications which Venezuela intended for Iran, including a sealed letter sent by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following the arrest of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab in June of 2020. The revelations came […]
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MP Stuart Robert has ducked questions regarding possible dodgy dealings with an offshore business, adding another blemish to his chequered political career. read now..."I've blocked everyone but I can still hear them. What's going on!?"
Public services massively reduce inequality, but the Stage 3 tax cuts will make it much more difficult to fund them
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The Chinese Government should consider the potential benefits of federal government in order to ease tensions and achieve economic prosperity. read now...
"We won't be using them"
Among the various and sundry problems endemic to the Washington press corps is the dearth...
The miscarriage of justice in the Bruce Lehrmann trial has highlighted the weakness in our democratic institutions and the betrayal of women such as Brittany Higgins. read now...The confusion about the term ‘imperialism’ can be resolved upon recognising that the term was originally popularised to explain warfare, but not national exploitation, whereas the subsequent evolution of the term sought to explain national exploitation, but not warfare. Therefore, the term ‘imperialism’ must provide an answer to the question, how do relations of national exploitation create the long-term conditions for warfare?
My PhD thesis, Imperialism: How Declining Currency Hegemony Leads to War, argues that the Indian Political Economy (PE) tradition provides useful insights to answer this question
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Sir Ian McKellan meets his match in Doctor Who’s John Bishop as the pair star as wife and husband in riotous musical comedy panto Mother Goose “Once they’ve seen your Twankey, a Goose will surely follow,” as Sir Ian McKellan himself described the Shakespearean actor’s return to panto for Mother Goose. The knight of the […]
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Roach explores how much of the adversarial nationalist rhetoric in both China and the USA is dangerously misguided and more a reflection of each nation’s fears and vulnerabilities than a credible assessment of the risks they face.
An interview with Gilles Yabi, executive director of the West African Think Tank WATHI, on food security in Africa
In this interview for the “Food security and inflation in Africa” series, Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin interview Gilles Yabi, founder and executive director of the West African Think Tank - WATHI. He guides and supervises the activities of the think tank, whose permanent team is based in Dakar, Senegal. WATHI is an open platform for the production and dissemination of knowledge and proposals on all issues crucial to the present and future of West Africa and other regions of the continent. Gilles Yabi is regularly invited to share his thoughts on political, economic, educational, and security issues with various African and international organizations. He also has long experience interacting with the media and has been publishing columns on African political and economic issues for the past fifteen years. He hosts the weekly column "Ça fait débat avec WATHI" on Radio France Internationale (RFI).
Dear TomDispatch Reader, Yes, this is indeed that end-of-the-year fundraising letter I always hesitate to write. This one, however, is somewhat different from the norm. In fact, in the 21 years I’ve run TomDispatch, I’ve never written anything quite like it. I mean, I don’t like bothering you for money (any more than I like getting such letters myself), but what choice have I ever had? Without your contributions, this site would have gone under long, long ago. This time around though, I have to wonder whether it may be the last such missive I’ll write. Once upon a time, only a few years after I started TomDispatch, I met a man named Patrick Lannan. I was invited to Santa... Read more