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“I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER! … I DID NOTHING WRONG! … My end-of-month fundraising deadline is just DAYS AWAY!” — Donald Trump on his campaign website, which went down briefly, after he was convicted on thirty-four counts in hush-money trial

IT’S OFFICIAL: I’M A POLITICAL PRISONER.

A JURY OF YOUR PEERS (NOT MINE) FOUND ME GUILTY.

BUT I DID NOTHING WRONG.

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Trump Guilty, The Boys, Welcome to Derry, Smiling Friends, Yellowjackets, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and more!

‘The multiculturalism of our area is just one of the amazing things about it, as well as Arsenal, our lovely parks, and all the Turkish restaurants on Holloway Road. But the best thing by far about our area is our MP.’ Junior doctor and Palestine activist Rohi Malik addressed the crowd at Crouch Hill’s Brickworks […]

An inside look at how a corrupt billionaire butcher family ended up controlling the country’s meat supply.

Farage would be cancelled if he said the same things about Jews as he does Muslims - yet he gets endless airtime

Why is a party with so few elected representatives and even fewer ideas being given such an easy ride?

They have everything, except money – a rare look at what it takes to belong to a Hutterite colony in 1960s Canada

- by Psyche Film

Watch at Psyche

MPs who stoke "culture wars" face on-the-ground campaigns and targeted ads from Hope Not Hate

A friend and a falcon went missing. In pain, I turned to ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ – and found a new vision of sorrow and time

- by Emily Polk

Read at Aeon

All over the country, architecture firms make the case for bigger jails — then get hired to design them.

The post The Little-Known Reason Counties Keep Building Bigger Jails: Architecture Firms appeared first on The Intercept.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) seems more interested in sweeping the story under the carpet — and shutting down other investigations — than uncovering the truth. Read here.

An increasingly desperate establishment is cracking down on dissent, both on the right and on the left.

The WikiLeaks founder remains in a potentially never-ending legal limbo. Assange himself spoke of “punishment as process”: subjecting enemies of the state to lengthy detentions without trial. Read here.

America’s embrace of protectionism is an admission of weakness — an emblem of the US’s demotion to no-longer-hegemonic status. Read here.

The measures purportedly undertaken in response to the pandemic have accelerated the trend towards increasingly concentrated, oligarchical and authoritarian forms of capitalist power.

Militarism, censorship, authoritarianism — the EU is turning into everything Remainers feared Brexit would bring to the UK.

We are in the midst of yet another “great transformation” — but the future it heralds couldn’t be farther from the democratic, co-operative international order he envisioned. Read here.

The US is using the same gaslighting tactics used to justify the post-90s NATO expansion towards Russia to justify the deepening of anti-China military alliances in the Asia-Pacific.

The British establishment’s aggressive posturing against Russia is based on a deeply distorted self-perception of the UK’s power — and national delusions about the US-UK “special relationship”. Read here.

“Green” policies are simply the latest cover to pursue a specific agri-food model: an increasingly centralised, concentrated, globalised model centred around a few mega-farms. Read here.

In a word, Economics is an Impossible Science because by its own definition the determining conditions of the economy are not economic: they are “exogenous.” Supposedly a science of things, it is by definition without substance, being rather a mode of behavior: the application of scarce means to alternative ends so as to achieve the […]

BELLO Youth Hub’s Wednesday drop-in program is partnering with OzGREEN for a free event in celebration of World Environment Day on 5 June. The event will rally local youngsters to take care of trees at Bellingen Skatepark during the ‘riveryouthfest’ event in April. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your...

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NESTLED into the Emerald Beach foreshore in the mid-morning sun a small group of avid artists test their skills. The regular Tuesday morning field trip of the Coffs Coast Artists group upholds a well-established tradition. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981...

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