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Public services massively reduce inequality, but the Stage 3 tax cuts will make it much more difficult to fund them
The post New data shows how important funding public services is for reducing inequality appeared first on The Australia Institute.
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
The post Imperialism: How Declining Currency Hegemony Leads to War appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).
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 […]
The post John Bishop Weds Sir Ian McKellan for Mother Goose appeared first on Blogtor Who.
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
The US government is giving out free wasps
Oh dang I *just* missed the one year birthday of Oddball but I wanted to make a post anyway! Thank you all so much for your support this year, I love making comics–I never forget how fortunate I am to have this be my job. This was my favorite collection to make thus far. Hurray to being an Oddball! Check out the collection here.
This is a big moment! The Collection box set releases venture into the 1960’s for the first time. Season 2 is an obvious choice given it’s near complete status. But how good can black and white Doctor Who look in high definition? As it turns out, black and white Doctor Who is really good in […]
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It’s been a tough year for the world and a tough year at Chez Ian (cancer, housing issues, blah.) Personally, I’m just beginning to recover from cancer treatment, though some of it will be ongoing, and sucking, for another six to twelve months. China, deciding to the right thing (Zero Covid) stupid, is now releasing some restrictions and that’s going to go badly. Russia invaded Ukraine, ground forward and will likely wind up with less than it’d like and more than the West wanted.
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There have been a few half-hearted attempts to do mutual credit, or business barter on a blockchain, but the only one that has cut any ice at all with me so far is Resource. Founder David Casey was a social entrepreneur experimenting with mutual credit long before venturing into blockchain and he has assembled a team which seems to be committed to honest finance rather than shilling shitcoins. The project is built on the Celo blockchain, which seems to have similar values, counting Charles Eisenstein's book Sacred Economics as an inspiration.