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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 21:44

This year, on the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, the Museum of Living History in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil hosted an exhibition entitled Marx in France. It coincided with one of the sharpest social and political crises in the country’s recent history. ​At the start of the summer, riots broke out across France’s […]

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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 20:14
Evidently, however, the potential for the strictly natural natural experimental approach, which relies exclusively on natural events as instruments, is constrained by the small number of random events provided by nature and by the fact that most outcomes of interest are the result of many factors associated with preferences, technologies, and markets. And the prospect […]
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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 16:17

As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza entered its third week, leaving over 5000 dead and at least one million residents displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank published a blueprint for self-proclaimed Jewish state’s final solution. In a white paper released over a week after the Hamas-led surprise attack on Israeli military bases and kibbutzes, The Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy outlined “a plan for resettlement and final rehabilitation in Egypt of the entire population of Gaza,” based on […]

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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 11:34
This Tuesday report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for several months at Kyoto University in Japan. The Biwa canal and hydro power I was wandering down to the main station in Kyoto early the other day to meet a friend coming from Tokyo and I saw this…
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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 11:00

As a young socialist, I remember reading a quotation attributed to Bertolt Brecht: ‘Because things are the way that they are, they will not stay the way that they are.’ I was intrigued; here, it seemed, was a promise that abject conditions would necessarily produce their own demise. I tried to chase down the source […]

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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 10:30
The man they want to lead the world Trump: I’m for us. You know how you spell us, right? U.S. I just picked that up. Has anyone ever thought of that before? I’m reading and said us. You know, when you think about it, us, equals U.S. If we think of something genius, they will never say it. pic.twitter.com/xzXTMRRge6 — Acyn (@Acyn) October 23, 2023 The vast majority of Republican voters will vote for that puerile imbecile next November. What the fuck has happened to this country? Update: Whoa… Wow. Trump says if he’s elected he’ll implement “strong ideological screening” of all immigrants to the U.S. One of his criteria: “if you don’t like our religion…then we don’t want you in our country.” pic.twitter.com/PJ8rbqglZ9 — Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) October 23, 2023
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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 10:22

KNOW your Mountain is a mini expo covering all things resilience and preparedness for summer time life in and around Ulong and Lowanna. Carol Cleary, co-owner of Ulong General Store and Cafe in the Valley, told News Of The Area, “Our mini expo will be personal, encouraging everyone to ask questions about their particular concerns...

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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 09:00
Will it work? An interesting thought experiment from Brian Beutler in his newsletter today: President Biden has been buffeted by attacks on his Middle East policy for the past two weeks, but enjoyed a brief reprieve on Thursday in the form of welcome criticism from Ari Fleischer, an immense cynic and warmonger who gained infamy as chief spokesman for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  “When [President Biden] said that Israelis should not be consumed by rage? Who the hell does he think he is?” Fleischer cried bitterly on Fox News. “I sat in on every summit meeting with foreign leaders when they came to the U.S. after 9/11 and met with President [George W.] Bush—not one said to Bush the Americans shouldn’t be consumed with rage.
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Tue, 24/10/2023 - 07:30
Don’t kid yourself At least they aren’t blaming the Democrats anymore. (For now anyway.) Kevin McCarthy, the ousted speaker, was making his way through the Capitol when reporters asked what he thought of the chaos consuming House Republicans, who for nearly three weeks have been trying and failing to replace him. His answer veered into the existential. “We are,” he said on Friday, “in a very bad place right now.” That might be an understatement. In the House, Republicans are casting about for a new leader, mired in an internecine battle marked by screaming, cursing and a fresh flood of candidates. In the Senate, their party is led by Senator Mitch McConnell, who spent weeks arguing that he remained physically and mentally fit enough for the position after freezing midsentence in two public appearances. And on the 2024 campaign trail, the dominant front-runner, Donald J. Trump, faces 91 felony charges across four cases, creating a drumbeat of legal news that often overwhelms any of his party’s political messages.