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[ad_1] John and I finish reading Rules for Radicals. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Photo by Hanna Zhyhar The Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker proclaims that “America Is the Land of Endless Choice, Except in Politics” (June 30).  Yet he wants Lady Liberty to be pregnant with just a little bit more of it. Baker doesn’t have to work up a sweat to find more economic options in the US than the EU.  His attempt to ask for a steak to be cooked medium rare over there being seen as outlandish as a request to “bring me the cow” may not be the most universally representative of anecdotes.  For many Americans, such…

[ad_1] Wikipedia is decidedly not a lovely, idealistic project staffed by students, scholars, and retirees who just want to share their knowledge to benefit the world. To be sure, there are people involved for whom this is true. But the site has manifestly been captured by a small clique of ideologically motivated bullies.Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] From the Encyclopaedia Londinensis or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature; Volume XIV; Edited by Wilkes, John. (London 1816), via Wikimedia   I was recently reminded of one of the Epigrams of the Roman poet Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis, colloquially pronounced in English as “Marshall”). It is about the lawyers of his day, but it reflects—in an exaggerated way, of course—something that some lawyers, and many law students, tend to do today in their briefs, especially briefs that deal with glamorous subjects such as constitutional law. Here is a translation I much liked, by Roger Dickinson-Brown, reprinted with…

[ad_1] For the first time since 1977, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is out of power across the country, marking a turning point for the nation’s Left, writes Betwa Sharma. Communist Party of India (Marxist) rally in Ernakulam, Kerala, India, in 2004. (Soman/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.5) Betwa Sharma Consortium News The defeat in the southern state of Kerala of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI (M), in recent elections means the Left, a major force in Indian politics for decades, is now out of power across the country for the first time since 1977, with no Indian state governed by…

[ad_1] Might luminous meteoric dust be a possible explanation for some of the mysterious orgs spotted by pilots in World War II known as foo fighters?As a member of the government-appointed UAP Science Advisory Council headed by the Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, itself on the heels of my being a member for five years of Dr. Loeb’s Galileo Project searching for hard evidence of what these objects could be, I was intrigued by a preprint paper posted by Dr. Loeb on his Medium column, with a link to the paper by the highly respected atmospheric chemist John Birks, of the University of Colorado,…

[ad_1] Think your wallet is safe? A major crypto risk may start with a Google search and one wrong click. Search results are becoming part of the crypto attack path Search engine results have quietly become one of the most underestimated weaknesses in cryptocurrency security. The usual understanding of crypto security focuses on protecting seed phrases, using hardware wallets, enabling multi-factor authentication and being careful with suspicious links sent through email or direct messages. What is often missed is the role of search engines as an entry point for attacks. For years, platforms such as Google have been seen as…

[ad_1] Recently, I was helping a pro-Israel client decide where to spend its conference budget – which rooms their people would actually be welcome in. Evangelical conferences, obviously. Jewish federations, of course. “And the RNC,” I concluded before rushing to carpool. I never once thought to send them to the DNC. Some filing clerk in my brain had quietly stamped the Democratic convention “Rooms Where You’ll Get Booed Off the Stage” and moved on without telling me. That reflex didn’t come from nowhere. Last week, the most powerful Democrats in Congress were asked whether the party platform should keep affirming…

[ad_1] Between us, didn’t the term oysterman ring some alarm bells? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival. Dumile Feni, South Africa, African Guernica, 1967. (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Forces of the South African left gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa at the end of May for the Conference of the Left. It is important to understand the context for this meeting. More than thirty years after the end of formal apartheid, South Africa’s people still struggle to meet their basic needs, with unemployment at…