‘PLEASE look at these pictures. Please think about them. That is not too much to ask. We — you and I — are the fortunate ones. At most we need only to look at pictures and read the news. But the people of Vietnam live (and die, many of them) with these horrors from day to day.’ Tribune’s […]
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Like a surprising number of British teenagers during the 1980s, Trish Keenan had become consumed by a black-and-white, nostalgic vision of Britain’s recent past. ‘I was obsessed with the kitchen sink idea of the 60s,’ Keenan told The Wire magazine in 2009. ‘I felt umbilically connected with it because of my upbringing. It was the […]
The programme looks like a normal news broadcast at first. A series of ordinary people are filmed sitting in their living rooms or standing in parks, giving testimony in straightforward but subtly grave tones. They’ve all narrowly survived death after being struck by lightning. An expert is called on to explain how electricity enters the […]
‘We have not only cut off heads, as the Mensheviks and the Kautskys in all countries accuse us of doing; we have also enlightened heads. Many heads.’ This is Lenin, in the early 1920s, talking about the importance of ‘culture’ and education in the creation of a socialist society. It’s an example of Lenin’s brusque […]
Much has been made on the Western left, for good reason, about the Chilean artists and writers who were killed during the CIA-backed counter-revolution of September 1973 and its aftermath, or who devoted their work in exile to criticising Augusto Pinochet’s far-right dictatorship. Poet Pablo Neruda and musician Víctor Jara are rightly seen as martyrs; […]
The staging is neat. President Emmanuel Macron interrupts the night of the European elections to address the nation. He is right that the situation is serious: Renaissance, his centrist party, has just suffered a heavy defeat, garnering only 14.6 percent of the votes cast, a long way behind the far-right Rassemblement National (RN), which came […]
When the going gets tough TFG has had many bad weeks, but the last couple have been especially bad. Vice President Kamala Harris now leads in some national and swing state polls. President Joe Biden’s success in winning (hear that word, Donnie?) the release of prisoners held in Russia has TFG flummoxed. His “unmitigated caucasity” (as a friend put it) in explaining blackness to the National Association of Black Journalists has neither won him friends nor expanded his voting base. Now the orange-hued, former wrestling promoter is trying to brand Harris as dumb and — xenophobia being his signature chokeslam — as failed “Border Czar Harris.” In TFG’s dim mind, the Biden approach is both weak and dumb. Actual data undercut that argument, Greg Sargent observes. Not that facts mean anything on the right. Border crossings have dropped for the fifth straight month per unpublished data obtained by CBS News and The New York Times, Sargent explains: These numbers badly undermine Trump’s primary attack line on Harris—and not just in the most obvious way.
Zionism Observer's relentless efforts reveal the IDF's use of Alkasheff Gaza to spread fear and disunity among Palestinians as the site resurfaces despite repeated shutdowns. Kit Klarenberg investigates.
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I receive my Call to Adventure in the form of a text. It is not from a real person. It states that a prescription beginning with INS is ready.
The Call to Adventure comes at an inconvenient time. I am inhabiting my Ordinary World, which means I am having a snack and don’t have pants on. Plus, it is 7:58 p.m. and I am pretty sure the CVS cut more staff and reduced its hours. Also, I am not feeling 100 percent and it is only Tuesday. I must Refuse the Call.
A Mentor appears. He says his name is Lodi. He looks like a very famous mentor, but not too much like him, since that mentor’s name and likeness are proprietary to LucasFilm International. I tell him that I have been to Lodi, a lovely town in Bergen County, and in fact I think I dated a girl from there when I was in high school. He tells me this is all an unfortunate coincidence, that the girl was from Englewood, and that in any event we are late to Cross the First Threshold.
In a desperate bid to salvage his reputation, Netanyahu's speech to Congress was filled with lies and delusions, revealing a leader in the throes of desperation and dwindling support.
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After an unprecedented wave of deaths caused by climate extremes, advocates are trying to convince courts that fossil fuel companies are criminally responsible for homicide.
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Jenny Chan, Sebastian Diz and Derrick Kanngiesser In recent years, increases in global energy prices have posed significant challenges for net energy importers such as the UK or the euro area. In addition to the inflationary impact, increases in the relative price of energy imply a decline in real incomes for the energy importers. In … Continue reading Monetary policy in a gas-TANK
Kamala Harris once championed a true universal health care plan, only to walk it back. Now, nobody knows where she stands.
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