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Australia needs a Royal Commission into its heinous, wasteful, privatised immigration detention policy. This is imperative in order to uncover immigration detention’s secrets, racism and appalling costs, to change public attitudes and to explore humane alternatives. Australian immigration detention’s 30-year anniversary largely passed last year without comment. Successive Governments have denied responsibility, facts and wrongdoing, Continue reading »

The difference that money makes: sovereignty, indecision and the politics of liquidity

Many well meaning participants genuinely opposed to religious oppression at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit this week in Washington will not realise that they are pawns in a US State Department geopolitical game. The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit this week in Washington, appears to be a great idea. Everyone in the world is Continue reading »

Bob Bowker’s recently published memoir enriches our understanding of the Middle East and reminds us that the corpse of the two-state solution in Israel-Palestine has been lying in the sun for years, though many countries, including Australia, determinedly hold their noses and avert their gaze. Diplomatic memoirs come in all shapes and sizes. Some offer Continue reading »

Same old, same old. The push for repeal began with the passage of the New Deal and the push won't end until it is repealed or effectively neutered by privatization. The push for austerity of which this is just a part risks another depression, and some would argue that it guarantees it.

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Danger Ahead: Mike Pence Would Pick Up Where Paul Ryan Left Off
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders

Milburn’s ‘Mozart Group’ said to have disbanded shortly after interview that discussed Ukrainian war crimes Retired US Marine Colonel Andy Milburn has reportedly claimed that a video in which he chatted about the ‘sick’, ‘fucked up’ acts he had seen in Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, including the murder of prisoners of war. Milburn’s […]

As long as we play along with the "solvency" game, Social Security is vulnerable to privatization.

Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining the Right on the vote.

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From backroom deals between Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs to US covert operations in Haiti, Tunisia, Italy and beyond, WikiLeaks revealed the dark underbelly of US power.

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I block their calls and they keep trying ♪ What’s the buzz? Tell me what’s a-happening ♪ Marcy’s right. If we called the Chinese inflatable a drone, it would be a very different conversation. While it’s not offically a drone, my buddy Barry Summers is on the case. It’s in the neighborhood this morning. No, I’m not going outside to look. Mark Hamill FTW.

Politicians fire teachers and ban books, but more and more Americans are standing up against this effort to erase our history.

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Now, if you you’re thinking–hey now, didn’t you already make the Greek Lamb Stew card? Well I did. But that was card 156. This is card 166. Greek Lamb Stew NOT in Eggplant Boats. Missing eggplant boats aside, the difference between the two seems to be black olives vs. okra/green beans and elbow macaroni. So,Continue reading 166. Greek Lamb Stew →

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The decision to allow US to access more Philippine military bases under the controversial EDCA deal has been criticized by progressive groups and activists.

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Federal funding lapsed in June 2022, forcing most public schools to charge all but the poorest students for food.

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I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness. Chapter 4 has just been published. A ‘top 10’ overview of the chapter can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/emergency-facilities/ The full chapter is available here:https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Falvo-Chapter-4-Emergency-Facilities-30jan2023.pdf And all material related to the book can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/book/

At its core, the BBC & Disney+'s Doctor Who is about science and the study & understanding of everything. So here's a friendly reminder...

The world is not enough “[W]hat’s been driving income inequality in the United States – and around the world for years – is that the very rich are getting even richer, rather than the poor getting poorer,” Fatema Z. Sumar, executive director of the Center for International Development at Harvard’s Kennedy School, wrote in November. “In every major region of the world outside of Europe, extreme wealth is becoming concentrated in just a handful of people.” Sumar brought a visual aid (above). Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) is famous for her visual aids. She brought one to her CNN appearance this week. Social Security adds nothing to the national debt, Porter’s white board insisted. There is, in fact, a more than $2.9 trillion surplus on the program’s books, she said. Why does Porter bring it up again? Because 70 percent of U.S. wealth is not enough for American oligarchs. On Thursday night, former vice president Mike Pence proposed privatizing Social Security. Just as George W. Bush tried before him. Pence supported that effort as a member of Congress.

Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full

A REPORT on pesticide contamination of Hearnes Lake has been released with disappointing results. Tony Judge, the Labor candidate for Coffs Harbour, and the report’s author, environmental scientist Maxine Rowley, are calling for urgent action to save Hearnes Lake from pesticide and nutrient pollution. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...

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THE synchronicity of a bunch of blokes joining the Coffs Harbour Men’s Shed, and then finding out there is a wealth of musical talent amongst them, has produced a performing band and a lot of laughs. The Shedmen as the band is named, is not only going strong with eighteen members, it has now become...

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INSPIRED by a great outcome from its car boot sale in November 2022, Bonville Sawtell Lions are putting on another such sale on Saturday 11 February with a view to holding them every two months. With over 30 stalls displaying their wares at the Coffs Harbour Leagues Club car park on Stadium Drive, the stall...

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THROUGHOUT January BigW partnered with the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) to support a program that raises funds for the Breakfast Library program, delivering books and reading support to families in need. The team at BigW Plaza were 100 percent in. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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