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Complicit In Genocide: Where Israel Gets Its Weapons From

Published: Thu 28 Mar 2024 02:05 PM
Over 9,000 Palestinian women have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Mothers have been the largest share of Israeli killings, at an average of 37 mothers per day since October 7. The numbers above, from the Palestinian ... Read more...

On The US Opposition To Mortgage Interest Deductibility For Landlords

Published: Thu 28 Mar 2024 09:58 AM
Should landlords be able to deduct the interest on the loans they take out to bankroll their property speculation? The US Senate Budget Committee and Bloomberg News don't think this is a good idea, for reasons set out below. Regardless, our coalition government ... Read more...

Distinctions Without Difference: The Security Council On Gaza Passes

Published: Thu 28 Mar 2024 07:12 AM
The UN Security Council presents one of the great contradictions of power in the international system. Read more...

Purgatorial Torments: Assange And The UK High Court

Published: Wed 27 Mar 2024 02:53 PM
What is it about British justice that has a certain rankness to it, notably when it comes to dealing with political charges? The record is not good, and the ongoing sadistic carnival that is the prosecution (and persecution) of Julian Assange continues ... Read more...

How AI Art Reshapes Perspectives

Published: Wed 27 Mar 2024 09:57 AM
Last year, generative artificial intelligence created waves in the art community. It created a lot of controversy, with human artists claiming that AI was infringing on their intellectual property rights. There’s still a lot of debate around this ... Read more...

World War Two: Baddies And Goodies

Published: Tue 26 Mar 2024 03:30 PM
My earlier article – Can 'Good' be the Greater Evil? – looked at the issue of how wars should end, and how Good versus Evil framing of international conflicts makes it difficult for participants – especially those who are convinced they are ... Read more...

On Labour’s Fear Of Commitment

Published: Tue 26 Mar 2024 11:59 AM
For 20 years or more, the case for a meaningful capital tax gains has been mulled over and analysed to death, including by the tax working group chaired by Sir Michael Cullen. More than once, the International Monetary Fund has said a CGT would be a ... Read more...

The AUKUS Cash Cow: Robbing The Australian Taxpayer

Published: Tue 26 Mar 2024 11:16 AM
Two British ministers, the UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, paid a recent visit to Australia recently as part of the AUKMIN (Australia-United Kingdom Ministerial Consultations) talks. It showed, yet again, that Australia’s ... Read more...

Can 'Good' Be The Greater Evil?

Published: Tue 26 Mar 2024 10:27 AM
Much of our conflict in the world has been (at least at the time it was happening) framed as Good versus Evil, and with Good therefore having a moral imperative to prevail 'at any cost'. Once upon a time – and in my lifetime – many of us regarded ... Read more...

US-imposed Austerity In Cuba

Published: Mon 25 Mar 2024 02:19 PM
Over the last few weeks, the Western news media has been full of stories of “unrest” in Cuba including protests over food and fuel shortages. From Western media reports, you would think that the Government of Cuba was neglectful and unresponsive to the ... Read more...
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