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Tue, 10/12/2024 - 11:11

The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and shooting into the sky with adventurist stupidity. The removal of statues and vulgar reminders of a regime. Prisoners freed; torture prisons emptied. The tyrant, deposed. This is the scene in Syria, a war with more…

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Tue, 10/12/2024 - 10:00
I think everyone knows that the HBO masterpiece “Succession” was based upon the Murdoch family. Well, it turns out that the family has actually based some of its actions on “Succession.” The NY Times (link below) reports that a court in Nevada has ruled today that Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch can’t change the irrevocable trust to block the rest of the kids from having any influence on Fox News. He came down hard on them apparently but this isn’t the end of the story. I guess there are appeals and also some end runs to get the job done. But this is just fascinating: The legal maneuvering came to a head during several days of sealed, in-person testimony in Reno in September by Mr. Murdoch, Lachlan, James, Elisabeth, Prudence and a number of their representatives on the trust. The proceedings revealed that Mr. Murdoch’s children had started secretly discussing the public-relations strategy for their father’s death in April 2023.
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Tue, 10/12/2024 - 09:02

With Bashar al-Assad deposed and Abu Mohammad Al-Julani assuming power, Syria’s future balances on a knife’s edge, marked by imperialism, internal collapse, and the reshaping of the Resistance.

The post Assad’s Government Collapses, What’s next for Syria? With Afeef Nessouli appeared first on MintPress News.

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Tue, 10/12/2024 - 08:30
This is one of the craziest things I’ve heard him say: What is he talking about? He must have been drunk when he said that. It’s been the right that’s pushed the flag and a pledge for the last 60 years! “These colors don’t run!”, “Love it or leave it!” After 9/11 anyone who wasn’t worshiping the stars and stripes was at risk if they didn’t keep their mouths shut. As for the pledge: Francis Bellamy was a minister who was thrown out of his Baptist post because of sermons describing Jesus as a socialist. He and novelist cousin Edward Bellamy both saw a future for the United States as a country in which the government controlled virtually every aspect of a person’s life. Francis Bellamy (who also wrote for a magazine underwritten by flag sales and therefore stood to gain by having schools require a flag salute each day) and his friends got President Benjamin Harrison to incorporate Bellamy’s pledge into the 400th anniversary celebration of Columbus’ arrival in the New World. It has been recited in public schools ever since… [T]he pledge has remained a recurring political hot button.
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Tue, 10/12/2024 - 06:00

In our new paper “Morbid Symptoms: A Feminist Dialectics of Global Patriarchy in Crisis,” published in the European Journal of International Relations, we introduce feminist dialectics as a theory and a method for studying patriarchy as a key ordering principle.

The post First as Tragedy, then as Farce: The Dialectics of Global Patriarchy appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).