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Todd Hayen Remember the bad kids in high school? The ones who didn’t make it onto the honour roll or the dean’s list? In my day they were the long-haired kids (the boys) who wore James Dean-style denim jackets and smoked in the bathrooms. I doubt if those kids in the ’70s even knew who …

Henrik and Lana cover some of the latest invader news and more in Flashback Friday February 2, 2024.
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The German government proposed slashing a tax break on diesel used in agricultural machinery, worth over $3000 a year to each farmer, that has led to German farmers protesting and blocking highway entrances with their tractors.

Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. Also, we have a new banner. “The New Normal” meant vaccines and lockdowns when we designed the old one in 2021, it means a lot …

If demography is destiny, as Auguste Comte tells us, then economics must be current, pinching reality.  The Israel-Gaza conflict is invigorating a global protest movement against the state of Israel which is seeing various manifestations.  From an economic standpoint, Israel can be seen as vulnerable in terms of global supply lines, potentially at the mercy […]

A group called IfNotNow, which describes itself as a movement of American Jews supporting the end of US support for Israel’s war on Gaza, claimed responsibility for the protest, which shut down a freeway in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning.

Henrik and Lana cover some of the latest in Flashback Friday this December 1, 2023.
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Henrik covers the situation in Ireland after anti-Migrant protests and how the politicians are using to pass new laws to target the Irish that are fighting back against their replacement.
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Armistice Day is one of those disturbing occasions of the year when humanity’s folly is laid bare.  It should be an occasion to remind said humanity about the stupid waste occasioned by war and its war-crazed planners who generally elude the dock; instead, it’s an occasion to extol its virtues and remind the reactionaries that […]

Henrik and Lana cover the latest in Flashback Friday, November 10, 2023.
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