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Israel’s largest assault on West Bank in decades kills 10 Palestinians
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Israel’s legalization of settlements in the northern West Bank, explained
Israel is launching a political and military assault on the West Bank. Its legalization of settlements in the north is a crucial part of the story.
So for now, the New York case, which the pundit class initially dismissed as the weakest of the four cases against Trump, is the only one to hold him accountable for what he is: a white-collar criminal, not so different from Shukhratjon Mirsaidov.
Source: To Understand Trump Verdict, Look at Shukhratjon Mirsaidov’s Fraud Case
The West has largely gotten China’s social credit system wrong. But draft legislation introduced in November offers a more accurate picture of the reality.
Source: China just announced a new social credit law. Here’s what it means – Pearls and Irritations
Along with the Bible he’s argued to be the most read in the world
In 1845, Karl Marx declared: “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”.
Change it he did.
Political movements representing masses of new industrial workers, many inspired by his thought, reshaped the world in the 19th and 20th centuries through revolution and reform. His work influenced unions, labour parties and social democratic parties, and helped spark revolution via communist parties in Europe and beyond.
Around the world, “Marxist” governments were formed, who claimed to be committed to his principles, and who upheld dogmatic versions of his thought as part of their official doctrine.
Marx’s thought was groundbreaking. It came to stimulate arguments in every major language, in philosophy, history, politics and economics. It even helped to found the discipline of sociology.
Although his influence in the social sciences and humanities is not what it once was, his work continues to help theorists make sense of the complex social structures that shape our lives.
First, white men at every education level are more likely than women and non-Asian minorities to get access to higher-wage jobs.
Second, while wages of average working-class people in the U.S. have stagnated in recent decades, and economic insecurity has grown, earnings for middle- and upper-class jobs – which are dominated by educated whites – have soared.
A third and more recent finding is that working-class white men are the group that is most racially resentful and most opposed to further immigration. This finding is based on analyses of survey data of the whole U.S. population examining both voting behavior and attitudes toward blacks and immigrants, zeroing in on President Donald Trump’s core supporters and the content of his political messaging to them.
This resentment probably explains why working-class whites, particularly men, are so receptive to President Trump’s anti-immigrant and racist messages – and why he targets them.
via Taking Focus off Wage Stagnation: How Trump’s Stoking of Racial Divide Harms the White Working Class
We are in the grip of a mass delusion and we have been now for 30 years or more, writes Dr Steven Hail.
Source: Government debt versus household debt: ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ debt explained
In today’s world people who are white, male, and right-wing can easily get away with racism and bigotry.
Source: Provocateur vs racist: The bigotry double standard | Canada | Al Jazeera
One of the few positive outcomes from the car-crash of Brexit and Trump is that political leaders are finally realising that wealth inequality is not a democratically maintainable situation. Voters in most western democracies have started to resent the growing gap between their livelihoods and those of the richest few, and this resentment is causing…
Source: Talking About Wealth Inequality – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Everybody is good at something, right? And it turns out Andrew Bolt’s forte is summing up better than anyone else what his beloved Liberal Party of Australia actually stands for. Here’s Bolt on Sky News last night, foaming and seething at the fact the Liberals weren’t immediately returned to government. “It’s nine months ago sinceMore
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