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I'm sure my worst takes were when I first started my blog. Not so much the most wrong ones - I'm still capable of being quite wrong - but the most embarrassing ones. Despite having some controversial-for-the-times opinions like "The Iraq war seems like a bad idea," I still felt influenced and constrained by conventional wisdom. I had yet to unlearn a lot of the things one learns while spending years thinking, for example, The Economist magazine has some special insight about the world.
I’ve just published Chapter 8 of my open access textbook. This new chapter focuses on women’s homelessness.
An English summary of the new chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/womens-homelessness/
A French summary of the new chapter is here: https://nickfalvo.ca/litinerance-chez-les-femmes/
All material related to the textbook can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
I’ve just published Chapter 8 of my open access textbook. This new chapter focuses on women’s homelessness.
An English summary of the new chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/womens-homelessness/
A French summary of the new chapter is here: https://nickfalvo.ca/litinerance-chez-les-femmes/
All material related to the textbook can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/book/
Good things are happening! Airline companies finally face a reckoning over unfair and deceptive practices, and noncompete agreements are set to become a thing of the past. Moreover, public land use just underwent a seismic shift in favor of conservation and sustainability, and the Biden administration passed sweeping new rules to curb oil and gas drilling.
Doctor Who has always been a pacifist, though the BBC really wants us to think they're an action hero. But is that really necessary?
It’s President Ulysses S.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Wytches, Dead Boy Detectives, Tony Khan, Jensen Ackles, Doctor Who, Stern/Biden, The Rookie, Fallout & more!
Biden said his uncle was killed by cannibals during World War II
Originally published on Global Voices
The final issue of Xtra! including: policing after the riots, letters, Ireland, Poland, monitoring state radio communications, Jacques Mesrine, media reporting on riots, anti holiday homes arson in Wales, news, cartoon, etc.
Submitted by Fozzie on April 27, 2024
Americans adore a moral panic.
Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
I posted this video on YouTube this morning. It is a particularly current topic. Railways are an issue in which I have particular interest. I first read a textbook on the economics of the nationalised rail industry in 1975. I still have it somewhere. And I have never changed my opinion about the importance of state control of our railways. In that case Labour’s plans appeal to me, but I have reservations. Watch on….
The transcript is:
Labour's plans for renationalising our railways make sense as far as they go, but they don't go far enough.
My wife declared herself politicked out this morning. I suspect she is far from alone.
There is almost universal annoyance amongst people I know (by no means all politically active) with the Tories for still being in office when it is readily apparent that they ran out of any good reasons to stay long ago.
We all know we face a general election campaign with an almost forgone conclusion. The debate can only be over the detail.
We also know that Labour is refusing to debate the detail, at least as yet, but possibly at all.
By Bert Hetebry Where did the term ‘Semitic’ come from and what did it mean? Look closely and see how mythology defines people in a very real way, marking their difference, no matter how small, as different, a means of judging, marginalising or inclusion, allowing for life or death over a definition of unprovable origin.…
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It is a week or so ago now that Kemi Badenoch claimed that it was wrong to suggest that the wealth of the UK was founded on the basis of its slave-owning and imperial past. She did, instead, suggest that the foundations of modern British wealth could be found in the relationships embedded in the Glorious Revolution that ended the rule of the Stuarts and brought William and Mary to the throne in 1688.
By Denis Bright The strategic game of Chinese checkers has replaced the warm handshakes between neoliberal leaders and the leaders of Chinese government in the late Cold War era. Like the other member states of the US Global Alliance, Australia continues to combine renewed commercial ties with China with support for the strategic rivalries associated…
It is unfortunate that column space should be dedicated to Britain’s shortest termed prime minister and, arguably, one of its most imbecilic and cringingly juvenile. But given that some people still sympathise with her and her views, it falls to one to tackle her latest work which resembles other types of the gloomy genre warning…
The post Liz Truss and the West: A Failed Former Prime Minister Speaks appeared first on The AIM Network.
There are so many of them.
Pamphlet by Kupferberg, originally published in 1961 by Birth Press, listing humorous ways to avoid work under capitalism. Kupferberg was an American socialist, poet, and co-founder of the rock band The Fugs. This version of his pamphlet is the 1967 edition published by Grove Press.
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Submitted by adri on April 27, 2024
As of April 26, 2024 Donald Trump hasn’t stopped violating his Judge Merchan gag order. Until the punishments are strong enough to make him stop, we need to take steps to stop and punish his followers, who make threats on his behalf.
The Portuguese revolution began 50 years ago. Labor historian Raquel Valera looks back at the events of 1974-75 and their legacy for the working class and left today.
The post Remembering the Portuguese Revolution appeared first on New Politics.
By Denis Hay Description: Discover how Australia can be a role model for world peace, utilizing currency sovereignty to lead global disarmament initiatives effectively. The Call for World Peace In a world marred by conflict and division, the pursuit of world peace is still both a paramount goal and a formidable challenge. As global tensions…
The post World Peace: Australia’s Role in Global Demilitarization appeared first on The AIM Network.
Trump: So we have another day of court in a freezing courthouse. It’s very cold in there.. on purpose I believe. They don’t seem to be able to get the temperature up. It shouldn’t be that complicated. We have a freezing courthouse and that’s fine pic.twitter.com/O4nT3v6hqH
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 26, 2024
It is not often I link to the Morning Star – which is now a journalist’s co-operative rather than a USSR tool! They are spot on about the alleged rail nationalisation from Labour – it completely leaves out the rail leasing companies – operated by banks, usually using ‘tax efficient’ offshore operations… They state: It’s... Read more
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This is a nice thing to end the week on: Yo-Yo Ma playing “Bach’s Prélude from Suite No. 2, amidst the melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska.” He was brought to this birch forest by Princess Daazhraii Johnson, a member of the Neets’aii Gwich’in people, who wrote:
Doctor Who stars Ncuti Gatwa & Millie Gibson stopped by BBC's The One Show to promote the new season and cover a wide range of topics.
The Biden administration has determined that three military battalions with the Israel Defense Forces committed "gross human rights violations" against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank but will remain eligible for U.S. military aid regardless because of steps Israel says it's taking to address the problem, ABC News has learned.
A call to women to put social needs, not just economic needs, back on the political agenda. If we want to fix that most of the world is in politically divisive macho mode, feminist women need to create new and recreate old priorities to create more equitable, survivable worlds. The macho basis of male economic Continue reading »
Strange but true. A reporter from the state-owned broadcaster in Australia was booted out by India, purportedly the biggest democracy in the world, and the Murdoch media in Australia has ignored it in toto. The fact that the ABC’s Avani Dias had been forced to leave the subcontinent was reported in The Age, a newspaper Continue reading »
Hamas is holding 132 hostages: 130 of them were taken captive on October 7 and two were taken hostage before then (one in 2014, the other in 2015). Israel holds thousands of Palestinians as de facto hostages. According to the Israel Prison Service, 3,661 of its 9,312 “security” inmates are held without charge or trial Continue reading »
In this quiet hour, I summon words, a humble man amidst shadows long, To speak of wounds not my own, to voice a plea so loud and strong. For streets that haunt with harried silence, for whispers in the dark, For the women who carry nightmares in the hollows of their hearts, I say, not Continue reading »
The so-called “cost of living” crisis is a low-wage problem of the Coalition’s making, the dangerously simplified world of central bankers, spooks and cops on the threat from social media, democracy becomes collateral damage from fear campaigns. Read on for the weekly roundup of links to articles, podcasts, reports and other media on current economic Continue reading »
The complex interplay of vision, power, and governance in innovation districts, precincts, and hubs. The 21st century has been characterised by remarkable technological breakthroughs that have fundamentally altered how we interact with each other and the world. With this in mind, countries, regions, and industrial clusters create visions of a technology-driven future. Quite often, they Continue reading »
As tensions flare with Iran, the US continues to provide full support for Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip. The events of early April seem to bear out the first line of T S Eliot’s “The Wasteland”, that “April is the cruellest month”. On 10 April, on Eid al-Fitr, the celebratory end of Ramadan, Israel killed three Continue reading »
Regularly I see people who, back in the day, were prone to tut-tutting me (or people "like me" - this isn't personal), now being as shrill about the Republicans or a certain media outlet - the one run by several generations of failsons - as I ever was.
I'm not mad. Just observing.
National security head hid from protesters, now he’s in hospital after car crash after running red light
I think Biden's stiff gait is a huge part of why people think he's too old, and I would guess 1% of voters know that he broke his foot in two places, leading to arthritis in his feet, on top of spinal arthritis that he already had. https://t.co/oAMWhnn9jr
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) April 26, 2024
Don't have enough precise details so I won't share the institutions, but friends have been telling me that their universities have been doing these last minute rule changes without notifications or consultaton, also.
A major controversy around the donations accepted by new Labour First Minister Vaughan Gething is gathering steam, ahead of a Welsh Parliament vote on 1 May.
A Plaid Cymru motion calling for a cap on political donations for Senedd members will be debated next week, after it emerged that Gething accepted a £200,000 donation to his leadership campaign to be Welsh Labour Leader – from a convicted environmental polluter.
from Lars Syll 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 for giving rise […]
It is reasonable to ask why the much-touted sanctions, when the war started, don't seem to have hurt Russia much.
Once upon a time, Amazon was a quirky website for buying books. Today it’s grown into a behemoth that has a hand in almost every facet of daily life, from retail shopping to streaming services to even health care — and for decades, regulators let it muscle out competition without complaint.
That’s starting to change.
Last Friday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) scored a historic win in the South after a decade-long campaign to organize a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee. The UAW is hoping momentum from the Volkswagen vote as well as last year’s successful strike at the “Big Three” automakers will help them win representation at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama next month.
“I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!”