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Tue, 23/01/2024 - 21:07

The unfolding crisis in Port Talbot is depressingly familiar. It is a story that has played out over and over again in recent years, from Grangemouth in Scotland to Redcar on Teesside and now once more in South Wales: the devastating impact of plant closures on local economies and communities heavily dependent upon single industries […]

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Tue, 23/01/2024 - 10:00
They’re coming around to Trump It’s always better under Republicans, right? Yes, I know they’re all Masters Of The Universe but they are political idiots. Do they think civil unrest and authoritarian chaos are going to keep the party going? They must. They wanted DeSantis but Trump will do: As Donald Trump surges toward the Republican nomination, many Wall Street executives have made a calculated decision not to speak out against him, and in some cases they will consider supporting the Republican former president over Democratic President Joe Biden, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. “A lot of people on Wall Street have been living in this pipe dream of Trump not getting the nomination. People were in the first stage of [grief], denial. Now they’re trying to get their heads around the fact that Trump could be the nominee,” said an executive at a private equity firm. Like others in this story, the executive was granted anonymity in order to relay details of private conversations.
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Tue, 23/01/2024 - 07:00
There have been a lot of videos circulating lately with Trump’s most recent gaffes like the one repeatedly accusing Nikki Haley of failing to provide proper security in the congress on January 6th. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now. But there have been many of these mistakes during this campaign and it’s starting to penetrate the media. Finally. Here are a few that the DeSantis campaign cataloged during its rare moments of actually trying to beat Donald Trump: I’m sorry, that’s just not normal. And Biden has done nothing like this.
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Tue, 23/01/2024 - 06:52

Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India takes these invitations seriously as it uses India’s bovine sector – key to the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of rural Indians – as the entry point for analysing capitalist dynamics under Modi’s authoritarian populism.

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