Why does Australia continue to have a rampant cost of living crisis? That’s the $300 billion question. The hard men of Australia’s economic press claim it’s because of inflated wages and low productivity. Yet evidence suggests it’s mainly because of our big four banks. We have a stubborn “cost of living crisis” as mainstream media Continue reading »
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If Donald Trump has done nothing else, he should have convinced Australian strategic thinkers that the long-standing mantra of China-bad/America-good is no longer appropriate. It is testimony to how deeply held such views are within Canberra’s policymaking elites, however, that even someone rated as the “worst president ever” by American political scientists is unlikely to Continue reading »
Damien Kingsbury’s recent piece, Timor-Leste appears to abandon sustainability, recycles tired tropes from Australian academics bent on safeguarding Canberra’s interests in the Timor Sea. From bugged cabinet rooms to relentless critiques of Timor-Leste’s oil and gas plans, a pattern emerges: undermine Dili’s ambitions to tilt benefits toward Australia. Kingsbury’s latest “salvo” exposes not just bias Continue reading »
Is Trump mad? If declining to share the joys and troubles of the whole human race, to decline a seat at humanity’s common table is a form of madness – then yes, Donald J Trump is mad. What is madness? To order the confinement of a person for their safety and well-being, as well as Continue reading »
Something similar could be said about almost all Western policies except those which make the rich richer. “Is the policy working? No. Are we going to continue? Yes.”
They’re giving Trump congressional votes, helping MAGA in blue states, and resurrecting their unpopular has-beens. Polls show America hates it.
5 a.m.: I wake up at the crack of dawn and shoot myself up with a cocktail of hormones.
7 a.m.: Now that I’m roided up, I log onto Facebook and cyberbully women by telling them I’m going to beat them at all their sports today.
7:20 a.m.: From my liberal woke closet, I pull out an outfit that is nefarious and confusing, and promotes my radical belief in the existence of more than two genders: jeans, a compression top, and a floral short-sleeve button-up shirt.
8 a.m.: I arrive at work wearing the single most charged clothing accessory ever created: My THEY/THEM pronoun pin. I love shoving my gender agenda in everyone’s face.
8:30 a.m.: In our morning team meeting, I bully my colleagues by politely correcting them on my pronouns.
12:00 p.m.: I schedule my weekly top surgery because I hate women.
When the Office of Digital Learning transitioned out of the university and to a new nonprofit organization created to expand the reach of the University of Oklahoma’s online programs, we had an opportunity to rethink and expand our role under a new name. The decision to adopt the moniker Academic Innovation was more than a […]
A campaign to punish a small independent theater for screening No Other Land is just the latest move in Miami Beach’s growing crackdown on Palestine solidarity, making the city a model for nationwide suppression.
The post How Miami Beach Became a Lab for Pro-Israel Censorship Laws appeared first on MintPress News.
The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now
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So fuckin’ like, in those dahk medieval times, the Vikings were goin’ bonkahs all ovah the fuckin’ place n’ both men n’ women thought it was wicked awesome tah wield weapons. N’ I guess that isn’t exactly too fuckin’ new; it’s just that we had a multi-centuhry chunk’ah time between then n’ now in which it was really fuckin’ frowned upon in the womens’ case. But it’s impohrtant tah remembah that we’re talkin’ ’bout spee’ahs, swohrds, n’ axes—shit like that. Not semi-automatics ah explosive fuckin’ ohrdinances. The Vikings nevah cahred fahr that shit n’ they still don’t, even if the eastuhrn trade routes kindah fuckin’ backfi’ahd on ’em n’ now Stockholm’s got violence tah rival that’ah Chicago ah LA.
Claims that migration organisations are controlled by 'Zionist-type people' remain online despite growing complaints
A fusion of polemic, anecdote, and theory, Ash Sarkar’s Minority Rule — her first published book — is a journey through the perilous frontierland of identity politics. Originally used as a way of conceptualising the oppression of individuals by way of race, gender, and sexuality, the identitarian creed has since been removed from its anti-capitalist roots, […]
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Police records obtained by The Intercept show Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests and other constitutionally protected speech.
The post LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool appeared first on The Intercept.
If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to "normal" they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson
Universities have turned the complaints process into a 'warning not to challenge the behaviour of men and the institutions that protect them', reports Mathilda Mallinson
Here are two groups of Western philosophers. We’ll call them Group A and Group B. Here’s Group A: Plato, Epicurus, Plotinus, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz, David Hume, Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, Schopenhauer, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kurt Gödel, Karl Popper, Jeremy Bentham, Alan Turing, Saul Kripke. […]
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This is the second part of the discussion on Tariffs that I started in – Tariffs and more – Part 1 (March 13, 2025). In the first part I considered some of the historical motivations including the infant industry argument. Today, I plan to expand on that discussion and add further considerations that might help…
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