Buttigieg’s Transportation Department has yet to walk back a controversial Trump rule allowing trains to transport explosive liquefied natural gas.
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The German and French leaders have told Ukraine they must seek peace with Russia in exchange for a post-war defense pact, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
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By Krishen Mehta / CounterPunch In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries about their attitudes towards the West and towards Russia and China. The findings in the study, while not free of a margin of error, are robust […]
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Argentina’s nominee for Best Foreign Film offers an urgent warning to democracies in Latin America and across the West.
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A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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Biologist Doug Smith looks back on a quarter century leading one of the most historic and controversial government conservation initiatives of all time.
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On this week's MVC, the group unpacks the original "girlboss" movie, Working Girl.
- by Charlotte H Markey
A coalition of experts and civil society groups have warned that unless structural racism is included in the COVID inquiry, we will lose the opportunity to learn lessons and save lives
A deep dive on the development of the dollar system.
The second post in the four-part blog series “The State of Economic Equity” looks at the connection between wealth equity and economic innovation.
In seeking praise for repairing some of the damage caused by Brexit, Rishi Sunak's revised deal only highlights what we lost through cutting ties with the EU, reports Adam Bienkov
The riot outside a hotel in Knowsley housing asylum seekers was the inevitable outcome of a long-standing organised campaign, Sian Norris reports
Do Boris Johnson, David Frost and the ERG want Northern Ireland to be stuck in a similar spiral of distrust and possible resumption of violence as the Israelis and Palestinians, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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As demand for electric vehicles ramps up, environmental stumbling blocks have emerged.
In a previous satirical article, we indicated that Soldier of Fortune Magazine was the last remaining publisher of the comic Dilbert. It turns out that Soldier of Fortune magazine has never published Dilbert, and has no intentions of ever doing so. Our bad.
Intro The continued assault on public sexuality and LGBT life in the United States manifests not only as individualized physical violence against trans, gender-nonconforming, and…
The mainstream media is failing in its duty to hold the Coalition to account as it continues falsified scare campaigns against Labor. read now...In “Fire From The Gods” I argued that humanity has proven consistently unable to handle new technologies: that we have usually wound up making them do more harm than good. This is a first in a series on looks at past attempted solutions.
Now the people who made these solutions usually didn’t say that they were trying to solve the problems of technology, though it’s implicit in some myths, like that of the eating from the tree of knowledge and being kicked out of paradise. But there is a wave of major solution sets being proposed all at about the same time. This is known as the Axial revolution, and includes Socrates/Plato, Confucius and Buddha. Zoraoaster comes in a bit earlier, Jesus rather later and the Jewish prophets (who spend a lot of time on social issues) scattered around thru the period.
Of course he did… More info from the Dominion case was released today: Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the election in 2020 was stolen from former President Donald J. Trump, court documents released on Monday showed. “They endorsed,” Mr. Murdoch said under oath in response to direct questions about the hosts Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, a legal filing by Dominion Voting Systems said. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight.” Mr. Murdoch’s remarks, which he made last month as part of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion, added to the evidence that Dominion has accumulated in an attempt to prove its central allegation: The people running the country’s most popular news network knew Mr. Trump’s claims of voter fraud during the 2020 election were false but broadcast them anyway.
Ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has joined the UK’s main climate denial group saying: “We need more science.” read now...