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Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making.
The impressive 17 seats won by Israel’s extremist religious party, Shas, in the 1999 elections was a watershed moment in the history of these parties, whose ideological roots go back to Avraham Itzhak Kook and his son Zvi Yehuda Hacohen.
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Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, voted for a 2023 hike in council tax as a councillor in Harrow despite condemning Sadiq Khan over his capital-wide tax rises.
That's the reason USC is giving for cancelling the graduation ceremony, when everyone fully understands (but won't necessarily tell you), that they have to say that because they'll be sued into oblivion, given California state law, if they admit the real reason.
He’s exceeded my low expectations
In a sign of Modi’s growing authoritarianism, the veteran journalist Amrit Wilson has been banned from India and labelled a threat to the state. Her crime? Writing in support of India’s farmers’ protests for Tribune.
A veteran Indian political organiser has been banned from entering India and labelled a threat to the state for writing an article for Tribune, it can be revealed.
It’s the 33rd Annual Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl Tragedy. Did you know that, according to studies conducted at the height of the Cold War, having alcohol in your system will protect you, to a degree, from atomic radiation? True fact. The thing is, you have to have the booze in full circulation before the radiation hits. So if you hear those civil defense sirens begin to wail their angry and urgent song, pour yourself a tall strong one. You’ll need it, in more ways than one.
All that I had predicted about Peter Dutton has come to pass. His comparing the 1996 mass murder of 35 people at Port Arthur with a pro-Palestine protest at the Sydney Opera House could only be made by a person without the most basic human qualities. People on the right of politics in Australia show an…
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The Spring 2024 issue of Social Research marks the 90th anniversary of Social Research. The Spring 2024 anniversary issue reprints articles that have appeared in Social Research over the last 20 years. ...
“You MUST see The Lion King.”
The last time you were in New York, Michael Bloomberg was mayor and nobody knew what a cronut was.
“Why not try kayaking on the Hudson?”
You do not actually like living in New York City.
“Corner bodega bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich.”
You haven’t been north of 23rd Street in seven years.
“Go to a poetry slam in the East Village and then spend a few hours just getting lost in The Strand.”
You do not have, nor have you met, children.
The Obscene Bird of Night turns the upstairs-downstairs genre upside down.
Kianna Shore, Mellow Brown and Mariano Taibo are launching a new Blade Runner comic book series from Titan Comics in their July 2024 solicits
The far-right movement has been gaining political ground electorally across Europe for decades. There are few events in recent history which better exemplify the disastrous risks posed by such ideologies than the fall-out from Brexit, following years of slow corrosion in UK regional politics.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Pearl Jam, Dead Boy Detectives, Tracker/Jensen Ackles, X-Men '97, Doctor Who, The Flash, Grotesquerie & more!
The British public wants politicians to be banned from presenting on channels like GB News, a new poll commissioned by Byline Times suggests.
The opinion poll of UK voters was conducted this week by pollsters We Think and suggests that a majority of voters would back an outright ban on politicians presenting on news and current affairs channels.
“There were kids in the ICU that had bullet wounds to the chest or bullet wounds to the head,” Dr. Mohammed “Adeel” Khaleel recounts the harrowing scenes from his recent medical mission in Gaza to Ryan Grim on Deconstructed this week. An orthopedic spine surgeon hailing from Dallas, Texas, Khaleel witnessed firsthand the crushing toll on human life amid the rubble of decimated hospital infrastructure. Despite the overwhelming challenges, Khaleel highlights the unwavering dedication of medical personnel committed to providing whatever aid they can through the devastation.
In constantly reaching for past parallels to explain our peculiar times we miss the real lessons of the master historian
- by Mark Fisher
Culture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not all wedge-issues are a part of a culture war.) So, a culture war reveals a latent or induces real divergence in a pre-existing coalition. So, for example, how to think about trans-issues has split contemporary feminism apart (especially in the U.K, which is itself an interesting phenomenon).
In mainstream economics, there’s — still — a lot of talk about ‘economic laws.’ The crux of these laws — and regularities — that allegedly exist in economics, is that they only hold ceteris paribus. That fundamentally means that these laws/regularities only hold when the right conditions are at hand to give rise to them. […]
Standing amid rows of juicy, lime green lettuce and chunky florets of broccoli, Jose Paiz appears as if he could be the owner of a modern, high-tech farm. But the crops thriving here, in the suburbs of Mexico City, are part of a 1,000-year-old tradition.
“My ancestors were doing this before even the [Spanish] Conquistadors arrived in Mexico [in 1519],” says Paiz, while crouching down to pick up a handful of powdery soil from the chinampa, or “floating garden,” on which we are both standing.
This is how the US police treat professors who ask what they are doing on the campus where that professor teaches:
As the Guardian has noted:
New figures show more than 150,000 unpaid carers are now facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, as MPs, charities and campaigners demanded an immediate amnesty.
They added:
I posted this video, which explains why more government spending in the UK is likely to require more tax revenue to be raised, at least whilst the benefits of that spending are generated if infaltion is to be avoided, on YouTube this morning:
The transcript is:
A new anthology of short stories set in Doctor Who’s Paradise Towers has been announced by Obverse books
In 1987, Andrew Cartmel took over as Script Editor of Doctor Who, and immediately began to plan how to revitalise a TV series which some in the higher echelons of the BBC thought of as moribund and ripe for a final cancellation.
Governments cannot take big decisions extremely quickly except in the most extreme of circumstances. There are mechanisms in all states that consider policy decisions, weigh them up, involve the various departments of the state whose activities are affected by that decision, and arrive at a conclusion, though not necessarily a good one.
The decision to stop aid funding to UNRWA was not taken by numerous Western states in a single day.
The SNP government in Scotland is in trouble. The coalition agreement with the Greens in Scotland (who are a different party to the Greens in England and Wales) has collapsed over the admission that the Scottish government cannot meet its 2030 climate targets.
The SNP is a minority government now.
Former SNP MSP, Ash Regan, now with Alba, is setting out her terms for supporting the SNP.
Composting’s role in the fight against climate change will be in focus during International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW), to be held from May 5-11 in Australia. Amid the increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as flooding, droughts or bushfires, composting offers a practical, hands-on response to climate change mitigation where every household can join the global effort.…
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By James Moore “Four wheels move the body, but two wheels move the soul.” – Unknown There are roads that unspool in the memory as elegantly as they do under your wheels. Travel them once and vivid imagery remains available for recall. They need not wind through mountains or course along ocean shores, but…
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Michael’s notes from this important interview. Watch the geo-political markers.
1A. US student and voter opposition to the US-Israeli genocide.
It’s all about them, remember?
Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, DC, after assaulting a contributor to The Grayzone at an event hosted by a neocon Beltway think tank. The Ukrainian-Canadian host of a self-styled ‘anti-disinformation’ outfit — which receives thousands of dollars from the US and UK governments and works with Facebook to censor content — was arrested on Capitol Hill last week after assaulting a contributor to The […]
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Trump says neo-Nazis and KKK members marching in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us” was “a little peanut”: “It was nothing” pic.twitter.com/zTTKECY4zr
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) April 25, 2024
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By Denis Hay Description: Explore how Australia’s eSafety laws impact free speech and how currency sovereignty can help balance regulation and rights. Introduction to eSafety in Australia In Australia, the enhancement of eSafety laws aims to protect citizens from various online harms, such as cyberbullying and digital abuse. While these laws are pivotal for ensuring…
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In Arizona, a deep-pocketed anti-abortion group has been wining and dining a lawmaker who may be a deciding vote on a new effort to repeal the state’s draconian abortion ban — and the senator might have been accompanied by her husband, an Arizona Supreme Court justice who ruled earlier this month that the ban could take effect.
The other day, the novelist Robin Sloan mentioned in his newsletter that he really liked the Financial Times. It seems everyone’s talking up the Financial Times lately, so I went and followed them on Instagram.
As millions of people - including some respectable ones - have told Jake, this is outside of Columbia and the guy is just a NYC kook fixture, but he won't correct or delete.
Anzac Day (the anniversary of the disastrous Gallipoli landings in 1915) is always a sad day, but even more so this year, with the horrors unfolding before us in Gaza.
The archaic, undemocratic electoral college stakes are very high
China knows that, if it has to, it can stand alone and that it can defend itself. It knows, too, that most nations of the world, other than America (which is, despite itself, somewhat conflicted), want to do business with it; to connect with its growing confidence and with its strengthening brand of non-threatening, non-coercive, Continue reading »
“There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune” The tide – or maybe call it “the vibe” – is running in the direction of the Albanese government being pushed into changing its timid stance on negative gearing. Just as the eventual change to the stage-three Continue reading »
As a China-watching think tank winds up after Morrison-era cuts, a respected analyst reviews government funding for security-related research and education. One Sunday morning nearly four years ago Kevin McCann was surprised to learn that an organisation he chaired was being hounded in the News Corp tabloids for being in “China’s grip” and “lobbying against Continue reading »
As a gentile with an historical association with Israel, I must admit to being greatly puzzled by the double standard that is evident in the destruction of Gaza. In 1971-2 I spent five months at Kibbutz Misgav-am in northern Israel, situated right on the Lebanese border. I had earlier spent a year in Africa, and Continue reading »
As predicted in Pearls & Irritations earlier this month, an appeal by the two losing candidates in the 14 February Indonesian presidential election has been trounced this week by the Constitutional Court. Challenges to the result came from two former provincial governors: Dr Anies Baswedan (25 per cent), and Ganjar Pranowo, (16 per cent). The Continue reading »
Lies and impunity paved the way for the worst time in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hanan Ashrawi says Gaza is “worse than even the Nakba, because it is a wilful, deliberate, total genocide”. Continue reading »
“Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law,” said Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights. The United Nations’ human rights chief on Tuesday called for an international investigation into mass graves discovered at two Gaza hospitals that Israeli forces recently assailed and destroyed, further imperilling the enclave’s barely Continue reading »
Groups hit repeatedly when IDF knew where they were, killing aid workers and their families
A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump's request for a new trial in the civil suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded an $83.3 million judgment by a jury that found Trump liable for defamation in January.
The judge also denied a request to strike the damages in the case, which Trump had called "entirely out of proportion" with Carroll's reputational injury.
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I have lost all interest in deciphering the sacred songs of the Supreme Court oral arguments. Take it as given that several of them are corrupt hacks. It should be established at this point. Spend your efforts mocking the people who pretend not to understand this stuff.
The Intercept has uncovered new details about the small family business in Connecticut identified as having sold a lethal drug to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for use in the Trump administration’s unprecedented execution spree. Beginning in July 2020, the administration killed 13 people in the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, over the course of six months.
“The Supreme Court hears Trump’s claim to ‘absolute immunity.’ The justices are considering whether the former president must face trial on charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election.” — New York Times, 4/25/24
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The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the creation of new prizes for philosophical work on artificial intelligence.
In January 2024, n+1 published Stop Cop City and the Struggles to Come, a zine that collects two essays about the movement to stop the construction of a new police training center in Atlanta. First published in the Fall 2023 issue of n+1, “Not One Tree”—by Grace Glass with Sasha Tycko—provides an emotional and inner history of the forest defenders’ life […]
Predicting elections is an occult science—with a shoddy track record.
Kelly Hayes: the double standards of conservatism (i.e. “there must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind…”) are about hierarchy (or caste, if you will). “They are outlining the world they want, including who should be victimized at will.”
Civil liberties groups are raising alarms about a bill making its way through Congress that applies pressure for a ban on travel to Iran for Americans using U.S. passports. The rights groups see the bill as part of a growing attempt to control the travel of American citizens and bar Iranian Americans in particular from maintaining connections with friends and loved ones inside Iran.
Today we’re announcing some organizational changes at the Spritely
Networked Communities Institute. My co-founder and colleague Randy
Farmer is transitioning out of the Executive Director role. I
(Christine Lemmer-Webber) will be stepping into the role of Executive
Director, and David Thompson, formerly our Core Infrastructure
Architect, will be stepping up as Chief Technology Officer.
by Daniel Wortel-London
On the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, we republish writer and activist Antonio de Figueiredo, who argued upon his return from exile that the liberation of Portugal's African colonies was the country's own path to freedom.
On this day in 1974, an officers’ coup overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship in what was termed the Carnation Revolution. Most banks and industries were nationalised, massive agrarian reform began, and the country disengaged from its African colonies.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn.
Imagine trying to explain Rudy-9/11 worship to The Kids Today.
Are armbands coming?
Two things, both from The Atlantic.
If you are one of those people who cannot look at Stephen Miller without seeing him in a black uniform with a red armband, consider, he’ll have company if things ever come to that.
Adam Serwer on Wednesday pointedly called out wannabe goose-steppers in the U.S. Senate, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Josh Hawley of Missouri, both Republicans, of course.
Are Presidents Above the Law?
Donald Trump thinks presidents should be allowed to commit crimes. Rubbish.
Wang Hui, author of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, now available in English, provides conceptual guidance for understanding China's intellectual progress in a conversation with INET’s Lynn Parramore.