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Since the industrial revolution, the health damage done to young people by fossil fuels, from the boy chimney sweeps to the household gas cooker amounts to negligence. Do we care? In 1842 British Parliament passed a law prohibiting the employment of children under the age of 14 to climb into and clean chimneys; children as Continue reading »
When the Howard government privatised Australia’s Employment Services system it promised more innovative, effective and efficient services. Almost 25 years later, it’s clear that the giant experiment of full privatisation has failed. And the most vulnerable Australians pay the price. It’s harsh but true to say that Australia no longer has an effective, coherent national Continue reading »
U.S. President Joe Biden, the Western media, and American academics seek to rally Western democracies against China, allegedly the leader of the world’s authoritarian countries. They charged that China is not democratic. Is this charge true? How so? China is known to have a long history during which scholars played a central role in society Continue reading »
“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness” – Antonio Guterres Two weekends ago, I decided to take part in an action that I knew could have consequences. Continue reading »
On 23 November, a boatload of asylum seekers was dispatched to Nauru for offshore detention. They were found wandering the coast of Western Australia by Aboriginal people, three days earlier. This has been Australian policy for unauthorised boat arrivals since 2013; 10 arrivals in the past year. But there was a time when asylum seekers Continue reading »
Why the RBA Board should enjoy the break on a houseboat ride, the ABC gives selected politicians licence to spread fear, bullshit, lies and division just because they are called “the opposition”, sex and the cost of living, immigrants’ kids do better at school than Australian-born kids, cleaning up the mess of another failed privatisation. Continue reading »
The US has been ruthlessly militarising what some Pentagon strategists have called the island chains of defence in the Indo-Pacific with quiet ‘Five Eyes’ help. There are many straits and passages with unfamiliar names across the Indo-Pacific. Some are potential flashpoints in the event of a regional war. The Taiwan Strait is the best known. Continue reading »
The Green New Deal sputtered on launch yet still made it into global orbit. Left policymakers can learn from the experience.
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BBC released an extended clip from Doctor Who: "The Giggle," offering some wonderfully disturbing moments from Neil Patrick Harris' Toymaker.
We're thrilled to introduce Lenny Moskalyk, one of the newest members on the Drupal Association Board. Lenny is a Senior Project Manager at Cocomore and is involved in organizing DrupalCamp Kyiv. She's actively engaged in the Ukrainian Drupal Community and serves as an Advisory Board Member of DrupalCon Europe, among other contributions to various Drupal events. Recently, Lenny received the Women in Drupal 2023 award in the ‘Scale’ category, given to those who boost growth in Drupal—her accomplishments that led to this award represent the value of growth within the Drupal Community.
Lenny recently joined the Drupal Association Board, and she shares her insights on this exciting journey:
Oh my God Many breathless headlines have appeared in the mainstream media over the past few weeks about the impending dictatorship of Donald Trump if he were to win the election next fall. All the major newspapers and magazines have finally begun to delve into exactly what Trump and his henchmen have in store in order to exact his revenge and enact the white nationalist agenda of the MAGA far right. It’s about time. Let’s hope they keep it up. Here are just a few of the proposals that we know about. He plans to gut the EPA, and drill in Alaska to under the illusion that somehow the “profits” will pay for Social Security and medicare (a totally absurd proposal.) He’s going to use the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to quell domestic dissent and he’ll ban homeless camps in cities and put the unhoused in camps as well. And there are very detailed plans to round up millions of migrants and put them in detention camps prior to mass deportation.
Apokalypsens fyra ryttare är här – för att dra ned brallorna på de neoklassiska ekonomerna. I det tysta pågår en revolution inom det ekonomiska fältet, och längst fram på barrikaderna står en grupp kvinnliga forskare. Det kan vara svårt att känna hopp när både höstens och den reaktionära samtidens mörker lägger sig över oss. Därför […]
This time last year, Britain was in the midst of the largest wave of strikes in decades. Energy bills were through the roof. Inflation was skyrocketing. The squeeze on living standards was at its worst since the 1950s. Workers were seeing pay packets that had stagnated for years shrink even further, and they saw no […]
During the 1980 us presidential election Ronald Reagan asked a rhetorical question of his audience: ‘Are you better off now than you were four years ago?’ Reagan as Republican candidate went on to win a landslide victory against the Democratic incumbent Jimmy Carter. The Labour Party has recently adopted this rhetorical tactic. ‘Ask yourself this,’ […]
The era of easy money is officially over. Central banks around the world have spent the last two years steadily raising interest rates, making borrowing more expensive for everyone — including governments — in an effort to bring down inflation. After a decade of low interest rates, during which time we were told there was no money […]
In Victorian London, King’s Cross was a crucial industrial hub. At one point, the former coal depot along Regent’s Canal handled 1,000 tons of coal a day. But, like many parts of the country, the area was hit hard by deindustrialisation. Warehouses handling coal and goods that were once transported by trains from the North […]
Journalist Nick Davies talks to Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber in Prospect magazine's 'Media Confidential’ podcast about the new revelations from the settlement by News Group Newspapers
After several previous abortive attempts at ‘retirement’, Ken Loach announced earlier this year that he would be retiring from cinema. The 87-year-old’s latest release, The Old Oak — said to be his last — brings to a close a career spanning seven decades and dozens of films, documentaries, and television dramas. In 1966, Loach’s breakthrough came with […]
A Texas Tornado of it “Telegraphing” is a euphemism for unconsciously signalling your intentions. Telegraphing a punch in the boxing ring. Like a player’s “tell” in poker. Donald Trump must be the worst player in either arena. Arrogance works like that. Where once he spoke in code like a mob boss, now Trump speaks like an aspiring dictator. When Trump promised Waco, Texas rallygoers in March, “I am your retribution,” collaborators began singing his song like a Greek chorus (ABC News): “We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but in the media,” said former Defense Department official Kash Patel during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast. Patel, who served as chief of staff in the Department of Defense during the Trump administration and Trump’s counterterrorism adviser on the National Security Council, was asked by Bannon if he would be able to deliver “serious prosecution and accountability” against their political opponents during a second Trump presidency.
During the general election campaign of 1997, Tony Blair, in an article in The Times titled ‘We Won’t Look Back to the 1970s’, reassured readers that the changes to trade union laws being proposed by New Labour would ‘leave British law the most restrictive on trade unions in the Western world’. The opinion piece was […]
‘Where is Ahmad?’ Israeli military forces demanded after boarding a bus from Ramallah headed towards Jerusalem. They were looking for me. I was on a religious pilgrimage to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but as a Palestinian dual national with a Palestinian ID, I cannot visit areas of occupied Palestine without a special permit called […]