“Tax online casinos until the pips squeak”
Rachel Reeves must instate a harm-based gambling tax
‘The chilling effect’: how fear of ‘nudify’ apps and AI deepfakes is keeping Indian women off the internet
Widespread adoption of artificial intelligence has been accompanied by new ways to harass women online
Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part VI: Two, Three, Many Rivers: The Open Veins of Central Bosnia
Post-flood restoration on the Željeznica River. Author’s photo. Editors’ note: This article is the last of a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5. It seems that at every place in Bosnia-Herzegovina where there is a lovely river, there is a dire threat to its well-being.
Mission Congress, an ambitious Catholic gathering with a wide range of sometimes controversial guests
The Accor Arena is hosting Mission Congress on Friday and Saturday in Paris, an event that declares itself a 'mission of evangelization' and seeks to bring together all branches of the Catholic Church.
Grassroots Resistance to Environmental Destruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Part V: Coal Poisons the Environment and Fuels a Criminal Economy
Coal-fired power plant at Ugljevik. Author’s photo. Editors’ note: This article is published in a six-part series. You can read the entire series here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 6. On my way to Majevica, I stopped for the night in Ugljevik, to the northeast of Lopare.
Putin’s envoy ‘doesn’t want to boast,’ claims he fought off a Ukrainian armored vehicle with a sniper rifle
Yury Trutnev, Russia’s deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, doesn’t want to brag. “It would be wrong and dishonest,” he told Russian milblogger Semyon Pegov on November 6.
Sind Demokraten Pechvögel? Anmerkungen zum Parteienverbot
Die Möglichkeit eines Parteiverbots soll die Demokratie schützen. Doch der verfassungsrechtliche Sinn eines Verbotsverfahrens bemisst sich nicht daran, ob ein Verfahren Aussicht auf Erfolg hat.
Ukrainian soldiers' rotations on the front line are growing ever longer
The Cross of Military Merit, awarded by President Zelensky to two soldiers who held their position for 165 days, highlights the rising difficulty of rotating infantrymen under constant threat from Russian drones.
‘We can have art and greenery’: Black Muse festival marks opening of sculpture park in Benin City
Project in southern Nigeria to honour the city’s centuries-old artistic traditions and bring a new audience to contemporary art
Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism
The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi The post Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism appeared first on Red Pepper.
Juvenile defendant sentenced to 23 years in prison over killing of Syrian refugee teen in Antalya
Plaintiffs criticized the ruling, arguing that the court failed to consider the broader context of anti-Syrian hate crimes at the time.
CU there: Rein in die Lachzone
Diese Woche schreibe ich aus Berlin. Es ist arschkalt, Nieselregen und Novemberwind. …mehr
Watchdog slams EU executive for hiding user risks on Elon Musk’s X
The European Commission unduly protected Elon Musk’s social network X from public scrutiny, an EU watchdog has found. Under relevant EU rules – the Digital Services Act (DSA) – the social media firm has to police illegal content as well as mitigate and monitor health and safety risks for users.
Newsletter | Ex-EU justice chief Didier Reynders charged with money laundering
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Mapping Bob Dylan’s mind
Generative AI sheds new light on the underlying engines of metaphor, mood and reinvention in six decades of songs- by Prashant GargRead on Aeon
A lament for clever music
Rosalia's new album Lux is worldly and wonderful. It reminds you of a better time
Whip restored to welfare rebels
Rachael Maskell, Chris Hinchcliff, Brian Leishman and Neil Duncan-Jordan will now sit as Labour MPs again
Was hat Mütterlichkeit mit Demokratie zu tun?
Wer glaubt, dass Elternschaft längst gleichberechtigt erfolgt, sollte sich folgende Zahlen ansehen: Der sogenannte „Gender Care-Gap“ – der geschlechtsspezifische Unterschied in der Aufteilung der unbezahlten Sorgearbeit zwischen Müttern und Vätern – betrug in Deutschland laut Statistischem Bundesamt für das Jahr 2022 immer noch 43,8 %.
Podiumsdiskussion: Resisting EU Border Externalisation
Vergangene Woche fand der erste No Border Summit in Wien statt. Dieser stellte sich der Vienna Migration Conference entgegen, die bereits zum zehnten Mal vom „International Centre for Migration Policy Development“ (ICMPD) ausgerichtet wurde.
Die Moral ist egal
Billie Eilishs Aufforderung an Milliardär*innen, ihr Vermögen zu teilen, ist zwar sympathisch – politisch aber irreführend. Selbst wenn Überreiche die grosszügigsten Menschen der Welt wären, würden Spenden die Strukturen nicht antasten, die ihren Reichtum und ihre Macht überhaupt erst hervorbringen.