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Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, discusses her book on the Ukraine conflict, the dangers of escalating military spending, peaceful negotiations, and international cooperation in preventing nuclear war and promoting peace.

The post Making Politicians Uncomfortable, with Anti-War Activist Medea Benjamin appeared first on MintPress News.

“[Dylan’s] ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ an entire tome of wild, erratic writing about music that is sure to bedazzle and befuddle.” — Slate

Full House

This is a show about the hell of modern life. The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV—where did it all go? Vanished into the endless vacuum of time. You once had San Francisco in the palm of your hand. Now your wife is dead, and you’re a widower with OCD and three daughters to raise. Your Windex can’t save you now. Your best friend needs to move in to help you. Your brother-in-law moves in. Still, you can’t cope. Your daughter drives a car through your kitchen wall, which seems to symbolize the pointlessness of it all, the inevitability of disaster, the futility of trying. The hilarious goddess of chaos laughs in the corner.

Redistricting, partisan balance and voter turnout U.S. House district lines will shift again in as many as a dozen states before the next general election. The fight, writes Ron Brownstein, resembles teams “changing the dimensions of the playing field even after the game is underway.” In the last two elections, both major parties managed thin five-seat majorities (CNN): While it’s not likely that all of these states will ultimately draw new lines, a combination of state and federal lawsuits and shifts in the balance of power in state legislatures and courts virtually ensure that an unusually large number of districts may look different in 2024 than they did in 2022, with huge implications for control of the House. “It’s just trench warfare back and forth,” says Kelly Burton, president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, the leading Democratic group involved in congressional redistricting.

So it looks like Michelle Williams, Helena Bonham Carter & Oti Mabuse have an open invite from Russell T. Davies to appear on Doctor Who.

“[Dylan’s] ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ an entire tome of wild, erratic writing about music that is sure to bedazzle and befuddle.” — Slate

Full House

This is a show about the hell of modern life. The milkman, the paperboy, the evening TV—where did all go? Vanished into the endless vacuum of time. You once had San Francisco in the palm of your hand. Now your wife is dead, and you’re a widower with OCD and three daughters to raise. Your Windex can’t save you now. Your best friend needs to move in to help you. Your brother-in-law moves in. Still, you can’t cope. Your daughter drives a car through your kitchen wall, which seems to symbolize the pointlessness of it all, the inevitability of disaster, the futility of trying. The hilarious goddess of chaos laughs in the corner.

The debt mountain according to the latest official figures is now a billion pounds higher than at the start of the pandemic, reports Chaminda Jayanetti

The congressman, who conspired with Hitler's Germany, became a huge Reagan fan.

The post Rachel Maddow Stopped Short in Her Podcast on Nazi-Loving Hamilton Fish III appeared first on The Intercept.

"In a lot of our countries in this region, [the PRC] is the number one trade partner, with the United States number two in most cases."

Joe Manchin just endorsed a Social Security proposal championed by progressives for two decades — will Biden seize the opportunity?

Washington’s favorite foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, undermines Scholz again and helps the US back the chancellor into a corner on Leopard tanks.

By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch The U.S. tyranny of monopoly capital has long preferred to deal with fascist governments abroad, specifically in the Global South. American oligarchs’ foreign fascist sycophants are so much more malleable than democratic representatives; they don’t even have to be told what to do because they know. It’s in their DNA. […]

The post Did Washington Boost Another South American Coup? appeared first on scheerpost.com.

Washington believes Kiev is expending significant resources in the battle for Bakhmut.

The post Germany: Ukraine Losing Hundreds of Soldiers Everyday appeared first on scheerpost.com.

The then-Chancellor was given more than £60,000 by an individual listed in the Paradise Papers

The Pentagon's Massive Intelligence Failure on China.

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Can ‘cause and effect’ ever make sense in a quantum world? A philosopher’s probabilistic attempt to reclaim causation

- by Aeon Video

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A recent survey of publications in experimental philosophy provides a picture of the field’s growth and range. In “Twenty Years of Experimental Philosophy Research,” published recently in Metaphilosophy, Jincai Li (Normal University) and Xiaozhen Zhu (Guangdong University) take a bibliometric look at X-phi. They write: X-phi has undergone roughly four developmental stages over the past two decades, namely, the initiation period (2000–2005), the development period (2006–2010), the expansion period (2011–2015), and the plateau period (2016–2020). Although works in the first period had paved the way for later development of this experimental approach to philosophical inquiries, the key umbrella term “experimental philosophy” did not come into widespread use until 2006. Since then, it has remained at the center of heated discussion. Over the next fifteen years or so, x-phi evolved from negative research programs with the slogan of “burning the armchair” to the more positive and interdisciplinary projects that embrace more armchairs, becoming a fascinating part of the broad enterprise of cognitive science.

Loyal Democrats say layoffs at NGP VAN and EveryAction by the company’s new private equity owners could hobble the party.

The post Inside the Slow Implosion of the Democratic Party’s Vaunted Campaign Tech Firm appeared first on The Intercept.

The French government’s latest retirement reform had been anticipated for several months by political and labour organisations. Announced on 10 January 2023 by French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, it is part of a larger plan aiming to destroy the retirement system created by communist and unionist Ambroise Croizat in the aftermath of World War II. […]

Although it felt more like bereavement for a person than the loss of a thing, the death of a pet isn’t exactly like either

- by Julian Baggini

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What we grow up with determines the gestures, textures, spaces, sights, smells, sounds and thoughts we call ‘home’

- by Julia F Christensen

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By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Somewhere between the first and second times I heard someone say “weaponize,” this term and its derivatives—“weaponizing,” “weaponization,” and so on—began to repel me. It was the crudity of it, or the way it served as an accusatory dismissal, like “conspiracy theory.” Assert that someone has weaponized a […]

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News presenter claims she was being ‘impartial’ Channel 4 presenter Cathy Newman has failed to apologise after falsely tarring Jeremy Corbyn with the same tax-avoiding brush as Tory front-bencher Nadhim Zahawi. Speaking to right-wing Labour MP Chris Bryant, Newman claimed that Corbyn had been fined for late payment of his taxes, like Zahawi: But in […]

It is already clear enough what the Voice would look like—a powerless advisory body that could be ignored the minute it raised any real demands for change.

The post Voice to parliament won’t stop racist injustice—grassroots movement needed to win change appeared first on Solidarity Online.